Review of exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses

GU Patil, KH Matlack - Acta Mechanica, 2022 - Springer
Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

Actively controllable topological phase transition in homogeneous piezoelectric rod system

W Zhou, B Wu, Z Chen, W Chen, CW Lim… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2020 - Elsevier
By employing periodic electrical boundary conditions, an innovative method to generate
actively tunable topologically protected interface mode in a “homogeneous” piezoelectric …

Temperature-controlled elastic wave transport in topological ferroelectric phononic crystal plates

Z Chen, W Zhou - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally tunable elastic wave transport with controllable topological properties in a thin
plate is investigated. For the prior plate-type phononic crystals designed with passive …

Advances in nonlinear acoustic/elastic metamaterials and metastructures

X Fang, W Lacarbonara, L Cheng - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Acoustic/elastic metamaterials exhibit a wealth of unusual properties conducive to wave
manipulation. This review outlines state-of-the-art developments from FPUT chains, granular …

Actively controllable flexural wave band gaps in beam-type acoustic metamaterials with shunted piezoelectric patches

W Zhou, W Chen, Z Chen, CW Lim - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a tunable beam-type metamaterial composed of elastic base beams and
periodically arrayed active beam-type resonators is designed and analyzed theoretically …

Vibration properties and optimized design of a nonlinear acoustic metamaterial beam

P Sheng, X Fang, J Wen, D Yu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2021 - Elsevier
Lightweight, low-frequency, broadband and highly efficient vibration reduction is widely
desired in various devices. Nonlinear acoustic metamaterial (NAM) is a new type of …

Voltage-controlled quantum valley Hall effect in dielectric membrane-type acoustic metamaterials

W Zhou, Y Su, W Chen, CW Lim - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The research interest on phononic crystals now takes a new turn towards the acoustic/elastic
analogies of the quantum concepts, eg, the quantum Hall, quantum spin Hall and quantum …

New metamaterial mathematical modeling of acoustic topological insulators via tunable underwater local resonance

Z Chen, G Wang, Y Mao, CW Lim - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents a new type of active underwater local resonance metamaterial
mathematical model for topologically protected acoustic wave propagation. The underwater …

A self-adaptive metamaterial beam with digitally controlled resonators for subwavelength broadband flexural wave attenuation

X Li, Y Chen, G Hu, G Huang - Smart Materials and Structures, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing lightweight materials and/or structures for broadband low-frequency
noise/vibration mitigation is an issue of fundamental importance both practically and …

Active control for acoustic wave propagation in nonlinear diatomic acoustic metamaterials

Z Chen, W Zhou, CW Lim - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
Wave propagation through nonlinear acoustic metamaterials has generated numerous
scientific interests for their enormous potential in practical applications these years. This …