Material properties can be tailored through modification of their geometry or architecture.
With this concept, a lot of smart materials, metamaterials, and smart structures have been …

Instabilities in solids and structures are ubiquitous across all length and time scales, and
engineering design principles have commonly aimed at preventing instability. However …

Mathematical constitutive models are crucially important for the real viscoelastic solid
materials in academic investigation and engineering application. The viscoelastic solid …

We propose an analytical framework to study the propagation of transition waves in one-
dimensional free-standing lattices comprising concentrated masses and bistable springs …

Acoustic metamaterials are known as a promising class of materials interacting with acoustic
and/or elastic waves. Band gap formation is one of the most spectacular phenomena that …

Understanding the electromechanical response of bulk polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics
requires scale-bridging approaches. Recent advances in fast numerical methods to compute …

Ferroelectric ceramics are of interest for engineering applications because of their electro-
mechanical coupling and the unique ability to permanently alter their atomic-level dipole …

The vast majority of ferroelectric materials demonstrate a positive piezoelectric effect.
Theoretically, the negative piezoelectric coefficient d33 could be found in certain classes of …

Our understanding of the rate-dependent electro-mechanical response of ferroelectric
ceramics is incomplete–primarily due to limited experimental data characterizing the …

We introduce a class of engineered metamaterials for the purpose of attenuating and
trapping spectrally broadband vibration and acoustic energy. The physical phenomenon …