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

Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

Emerging interest to synthesize active, engineered matter suggests a future where smart
material systems and structures operate autonomously around people, serving diverse roles …

The ubiquitous existence of heavy metals in wastewater and natural water bodies has
deteriorated the quality of water environment and exerted significant hazardous impacts on …

In this paper, we analyze the propagation of elastic waves of small amplitudes in
reconfigurable architected materials formed by a one-dimensional chain of bistable unit …

Acoustic and elastic metamaterials are media with a subwavelength structure that behave as
effective materials displaying atypical effective dynamic properties. These material systems …

Mechanical instabilities are traditionally regarded as a route toward failure. However, they
can also be exploited to design architected cellular materials with tunable functionality. In …

Most available techniques for the design of tensegrity structures can be grouped in two
categories. On the one hand, methods that rely on the systematic application of topological …

Motivated by the importance of lattice structures in multiple fields, we numerically investigate
the propagation of flexural waves in a thin reticulated plate augmented with two classes of …

This book uses asymptotic methods to obtain simple approximate analytic solutions to
various problems within mechanics, notably wave processes in heterogeneous materials …