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 …

The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

This paper investigates a technique for broadband vibration suppression using a graded
metamaterial beam. A series of local resonators with the same mass but different natural …

Mechanical properties of materials have long been one of the most fundamental and studied
areas of materials science for a myriad of applications. Recently, mechanical metamaterials …

By employing periodic electrical boundary conditions, an innovative method to generate
actively tunable topologically protected interface mode in a “homogeneous” piezoelectric …

Among various strategies developed for the attenuation of noise and vibration in mechanical
structures, piezoelectric shunt damping, which consists in connecting piezoelectric …

Achieving vibration and/or wave attenuation with locally resonant metamaterials has
attracted a great deal of attention due to their frequency dependent negative effective mass …

The purpose of this work is to investigate the propagation of surface waves through
periodically arranged built-up steel section (resonator) in single and multiple layered soil …

Periodic shunted piezoelectric patches are employed for the design of a tunable, one-
dimensional metamaterial. The configuration considered encompasses a beam undergoing …

The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …