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 …

Experimental observation of nonreciprocal band gaps in a space-time-modulated beam using a shunted piezoelectric array

J Marconi, E Riva, M Di Ronco, G Cazzulani… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
In this work, we experimentally achieve 1-kHz-wide directional band gaps for elastic waves
spanning a frequency range from approximately 8 to 11 kHz. One-way propagation is …

Pushing and pulling on ropes: hierarchical woven materials

WP Moestopo, AJ Mateos, RM Fuller… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hierarchy in natural and synthetic materials has been shown to grant these architected
materials properties unattainable independently by their constituent materials. While …

Spectral energy scattering and targeted energy transfer in phononic lattices with local vibroimpact nonlinearities

JR Tempelman, AF Vakakis, KH Matlack - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We propose a method for manipulating wave propagation in phononic lattices by employing
local vibroimpact (VI) nonlinearities to scatter energy across the underlying linear band …

Non-reciprocal wave propagation in discretely modulated spatiotemporal plates

E Riva, M Di Ronco, A Elabd, G Cazzulani… - Journal of Sound and …, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate non-reciprocal wave propagation in spatiotemporal phononic plates.
Specifically, the first aim of this manuscript is to propose a general formulation of the Plane …

Non-reciprocal wave transmission in a bilinear spring-mass system

Z Lu, AN Norris - Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Significant amplitude-independent and passive non-reciprocal wave motion can be
achieved in a one-dimensional (1D) discrete chain of masses and springs with bilinear …

Nonlinear hierarchical unit cell for passive, amplitude-dependent filtering of acoustic waves

N Mork, MD Fronk, MB Sinclair, MJ Leamy - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
In this letter we propose a nonlinear hierarchical unit cell for use in passive, amplitude-
dependent filtering of acoustic energy transmission. Analogous to unit cell designs which …

Nonreciprocal vibrations of finite elastic structures with spatiotemporally modulated material properties

BM Goldsberry, SP Wallen, MR Haberman - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Elastic waveguides with time-and space-dependent material properties have received great
attention as a means to realize nonreciprocal propagation of small-amplitude mechanical …

Time scale disparity yielding acoustic nonreciprocity in a two-dimensional granular-elastic solid interface with asymmetry

C Wang, S Tawfick, AF Vakakis - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study nonreciprocal wave transmission across the interface of two dissimilar granular
media separated by an elastic solid medium. Specifically, a left, larger-scale and a right …

Nonreciprocal phase shifts in a nonlinear periodic waveguide

A Kogani, B Yousefzadeh - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
We explore nonreciprocal vibration transmission in a nonlinear periodic waveguide.
Nonlinearity and asymmetry, the two necessary requirements for nonreciprocity, are both …