The study of phononic materials and structures is an emerging discipline that lies at the
crossroads of vibration and acoustics engineering and condensed matter physics. Broadly …

Wave propagation through a structured medium has attracted the attention of researchers for
centuries due to its relevance to problems in condensed matter physics, chemistry, optics …

In this work, new beam and plate metamaterials with interconnected local resonators are
proposed. This design promotes the splitting and coupling between transverse and …

Starting from the seminal works of Toupin, Mindlin and Germain, a wide class of generalized
elastic models have been proposed via the principle of virtual work, by postulating …

The aim of this study is to obtain a wide and deep phononic gap at low frequencies in a two-
dimensional periodic solid structure with embedded inertial amplification mechanisms. Size …

The elastic wave propagation is investigated in a beam lattice material characterized by a
square periodic cell with anti-tetrachiral microstructure. With reference to the Floquet-Bloch …

The interest in artificial magnetic media such as magnonic crystals increased substantially in
recent years due to their potential applications in information processing at microwave …

An innovative special class of tunable periodic metamaterials is designed, suitable for
realizing high-performance acoustic filters. The metamaterial is made up of a phononic …

In-plane wave propagation in a periodic rectangular frame structure, which includes axial
and flexural deformation, the latter enhanced with rotational inertia (so-called 'Rayleigh …

We propose a new type of platonic crystal, which includes spiral resonators with low-
frequency resonant vibrations. The special dynamic effects of the resonators are highlighted …