Within a time span of 15 years, acoustic metamaterials have emerged from academic
curiosity to become an active field driven by scientific discoveries and diverse application …

Mechanical metamaterials, also known as architected materials, are rationally designed
composites, aiming at elastic behaviors and effective mechanical properties beyond ('meta') …

We explore the thesis that resonances in trees result in forests acting as locally resonant
metamaterials for Rayleigh surface waves in the geophysics context. A geophysical …

Many advanced physical properties can be realized by using well-designed acoustic
metamaterial (AM) structures, which have significant application value in engineering. In …

We experimentally demonstrate that a rainbow-based metamaterial, created by a graded
array of resonant rods attached to an elastic beam, operates as a mechanical delay-line by …

In order to enhance the vibration reduction capacity in a wide frequency range, a novel
acoustic metamaterial beam with periodically variable cross-sections is designed by …

In recent years, elastic metamaterials inspired from electromagnetic metamaterials have
been used to protect buildings during earthquakes, and their effectiveness in seismic wave …

This paper studies the wave attenuation performance of dissipative solid acoustic
metamaterials (AMMs) with local resonators possessing subwavelength band gaps. The …

Elastic metamaterials exhibit a significant potential in wave attenuation and impact
mitigation application owing to their unusual dynamic performance. This work is aimed at …

Microwave absorbing materials are widely utilized in military and civilian applications.
Moreover, their environmental potential to refine electromagnetic pollution has promoted …