Mechanical metamaterials

R Craster, S Guenneau, M Kadic… - Reports on Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Mechanical metamaterials, also known as architected materials, are rationally designed
composites, aiming at elastic behaviors and effective mechanical properties beyond ('meta') …

Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for energy harvesting and self-powered sensing applications

G Lee, SJ Lee, J Rho, M Kim - Materials Today Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that exhibit extraordinary properties
beyond the constituent materials, making them attractive for various applications in optics …

Topological cavities in phononic plates for robust energy harvesting

Z Wen, Y **, P Gao, X Zhuang, T Rabczuk… - … Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesting has attracted tremendous interest for designing sustainable
self-powered devices/systems targeted to special environment such as wireless or wearable …

Recent advances in topological elastic metamaterials

H Huang, J Chen, S Huo - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological elastic metamaterials have emerged as a new frontier in the quest of topological
phases in condensed matter physics. Their exotic topological properties open a wealth of …

Selective mode conversion and rainbow trap** via graded elastic waveguides

JM De Ponti, L Iorio, E Riva, R Ardito, F Braghin… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We experimentally achieve wave-mode conversion and rainbow trap** in an elastic
waveguide loaded with an array of resonators. Rainbow trap** is a phenomenon that …

Topological rainbow trap** and acoustic energy amplification in two-dimensional gradient phononic crystals

XL Tang, TX Ma, YS Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we numerically and experimentally investigate topological rainbow trap** and
energy amplification of acoustic waves in a gradient phononic crystal (PC) structure. Thanks …

Tunable topological edge states and rainbow trap** in two dimensional magnetoelastic phononic crystal plates based on an external magnetostatic field

F Sui, J Chen, H Huang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The elastic analogs of topological insulators (TIs) have attracted substantial research
interest owing to their potential prospects in wave manipulation and low-loss transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Periodically alternated elastic support induced topological phase transition in phononic crystal beam systems

Z Chen, G Wang, CW Lim - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Determining strong robustness in flexural wave propagation in beam systems has always
been a promising achievement with various real-life applications such as energy harvesting …

Topological edge states of quasiperiodic elastic metasurfaces

X Pu, A Palermo, A Marzani - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the dynamic behavior and the topological properties of
quasiperiodic elastic metasurfaces, namely arrays of mechanical oscillators arranged over …

Programmable rainbow trap** and band-gap enhancement via spatial group-velocity tailoring in elastic metamaterials

M Alshaqaq, C Sugino, A Erturk - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We numerically and experimentally investigate spatially programmable rainbow trap**
and band-gap enhancement using a graded piezoelectric metamaterial beam with unit cells …