The application of smart materials and metastructures has been rapidly increasing in
advanced multiphysical systems because of their ability to modify mechanical responses by …

Mechatronic metamaterials are of utmost significance in vibration isolation owing to their
tunable bandgaps. However, their intricate mechanisms are always challenging for …

Converting the wasted ambient vibration to electric power, using a piezoelectric energy
harvester, is a promising strategy for powering a sensor network for medical and industrial …

The modern construction revolution throughout the past two decades has brought the need
for ground vibration mitigation, and this has been one of the major study areas. These …

This paper presents the design of a meta-shell with spring-mass resonators periodically
attached onto a cylindrical shell to achieve low-frequency, broadband vibration suppression …

Metastructures provide a new way to solve the problem of low-frequency vibration
suppression because of their unique low-frequency bandgap characteristics. Traditional …

Optimization of functionally graded metamaterial arrays with a high dimensional and
continuous geometric design space is cumbersome and could be accelerated via machine …

In this work, a concept of constructing inertant seismic metamaterials for Rayleigh wave
attenuation using inerter-based vibration absorbers (IDVAs) is proposed. The dynamic …

In this paper, a programmable piezoelectric meta-shell is designed to actively control the
structural and sound radiation responses. The meta-shell consists of a cylindrical shell …

Broadband vibration suppression poses a significant engineering challenge, and
researchers have turned to acoustic metamaterials (AMs) as a promising solution …