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 …

Design and compression-induced bandgap evolution of novel polygonal negative stiffness metamaterials

T Jiang, Q Han, C Li - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The paper proposes a novel polygonal negative stiffness (NS) metamaterial composed of
folded beams and stiffening walls, which exhibits excellent performance in attenuating …

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 …

Elastic foundation induced wide bandgaps for actively-tuned topologically protected wave propagation in phononic crystal beams

Z Chen, G Wang, W Zhou, CW Lim - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work presents the active control effects on a piezoelectric phononic crystal beam resting
on elastic foundation. The bending of passive periodic beams that rest on elastic foundation …

Metamaterial-based vibration control for offshore wind turbines operating under multiple hazard excitation forces

MR Machado, M Dutkiewicz, GB Colherinhas - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Wind energy holds growing investment perspectives due to its renewable and sustainable
energy production potential. The harvesting capability of wind turbines is directly related to …

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 …

Analytical modeling and numerical analysis for tunable topological phase transition of flexural waves in active sandwiched phononic beam systems

Z Chen, G Wang, F Shi, CW Lim - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological phononic crystals (PnCs) have attracted tremendous research attention in
recent years. A significant hallmark of these structures is that these crystals can support …

Broad bandgap active metamaterials with optimal time-delayed control

Y Gao, L Wang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a metamaterial with time-delayed feedback control for broadband vibration
suppression is investigated. Genetic algorithm is used to optimize the time-delayed …

Optimization of novel plate acoustic metamaterials and modulation of the low-frequency bandgap

X Li, S Cheng, Q Zhang, Y **n, Y Sun… - … of Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Based on the local resonance mechanism, five new acoustic metamaterial plate structures
with low-frequency bandgaps are proposed in this paper. The two new structures obtained …