This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature and trends on the design of
periodic microstructural composite materials including photonic crystals (PtCs), phononic …

The objective of this paper is to present a peer-review of the literature and trends
surrounding the design of phononic crystals (PnCs) using topology optimization methods …

This paper presents a topology optimization method for a coupled thermal–fluid problem
based on the two-and three-dimensional steady-state Navier–Stokes and energy equations …

Metamaterials usually refer to artificial composite materials consisting of an array of
periodically arranged microstructures, engineered to provide unusual material properties …

Metamaterials are featured by artificial composite structures with exotic properties, which
process promising application potentials in various areas. However, the manufacturing of …

This paper proposes an effective method for the design of 3D micro-structured materials to
attain extreme mechanical properties, which integrates the firstly developed 3D energy …

Metamaterials are synthetic materials designed to have unique properties like negative
Poisson ratio (NPR). NPR metamaterials, also known as auxetics, offer significant value in …

The inverse homogenization method can tailor some mechanical and physical effective
properties by laying out materials in a periodic representative volume element. However …

Double-negative acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) offer the promising ability of superlensing
for applications in ultrasonography, biomedical sensing and nondestructive evaluation …

This paper proposes a level set-based robust topology optimization (RTO) method for
computational design of metamaterials under hybrid uncertainties, eg auxetics with negative …