Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

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

Enhancing vibration isolation with locally resonant metamaterials has attracted wide
attention due to low-frequency band-gap. Moreover, nonlinear periodic structure could …

The ability to significantly change the mechanical and wave propagation properties of a
structure without rebuilding it is currently one of the main challenges in the field of …

Seismic metamaterial (SM) has lately received significant attention in the field of vibration
isolation and dam** due to its wave manipulation and bandgap properties. However, the …

Tailoring light properties using metasurfaces made of optically thin and subwavelength
structure arrays has led to a variety of innovative optical components with intriguing …

In the last two decades, seismic metamaterials have attracted significant attention of
researchers because of the characteristic of the bandgap which can be used to control …

Abstract Curved Crease Origami (CCO) structures exhibit intrinsic elastic behavior, resulting
from a combination of crease folding and facet bending. In this work, we introduce a generic …

The adverse effect of mechanical vibration is inevitable and can be observed in machine
components either on the long-or short-term of machine life-span based on the severity of …

In the past decades, many mechanical metamaterials with uncommon static properties have
been reported. On the other hand, mechanical metamaterials possessing extraordinary …