Inspired by sonic engineering, locally resonant metamaterials have attracted much attention
from researchers in civil engineering for their unique characteristics of stress wave …

In recent years, elastic metamaterials inspired from electromagnetic metamaterials have
been used to protect buildings during earthquakes, and their effectiveness in seismic wave …

In recent years, a new type of seismic isolation system which exploits the filtering effect of
bandgaps, named Periodic Foundation, has been proposed to isolate the upper structure …

Photonic crystals or man-made periodic materials own band gap characteristics, which can
block the elastic wave propagate through the structure and can be used to mitigate the …

Seismic isolation systems protect structures and act as decoupling systems with the
structure, which aims to uncouple the motion of the structure from incoming waves by …

A wave barrier—combining the advantages of trench-type wave barriers and metamaterials—
is made by infilling the trench-type wave barrier with metamaterials. In this research, a series …

A new model for determining band gaps for wave propagation in two-dimensional (2-D)
periodic three-phase composites containing coated star-shaped inclusions and an …

Metamaterials represent a new trend in the field of seismic engineering. Their capacity to
attenuate waves at the superstructure level is highly desirable and sought after in recent …

In this study, a triangular array of cylindrical holes was shown to function as a local resonator
to seismic metamaterials against the vibration generator loading in the geophysics concept …

Phononic crystals have been widely employed in many engineering fields, which is because
of their unique feature of frequency band gaps. For example, their capability to filter out the …