The design and the combination of innovative metamaterials are attracting increasing
interest in the scientific community because of their unique properties that go beyond the …

An important feature that drives the auxetic behaviour of the star-shaped auxetic structures is
the hinge-functional connection at the vertex connections. This feature poses a great …

Recently, an increasing research effort has been dedicated to analyze the transmission and
dispersion properties of periodic acoustic metamaterials, characterized by the presence of …

Rotating unit systems constitute one of the main classes of auxetic metamaterials. In this
work, a new design procedure for lightweight auxetic systems based on this deformation …

The present research is an effort to enhance and control locally resonant bandgaps in
periodic metamaterials of hexagonal and triangular topologies by introducing spider-web …

Architected materials and metamaterials are a challenging frontier for the development of
optimal design strategies targeted at the active and passive control of elastic wave …

The elastic wave propagation is investigated in a beam lattice material characterized by a
square periodic cell with anti-tetrachiral microstructure. With reference to the Floquet-Bloch …

The use of multifunctional composite materials adopting piezo-electric periodic cellular
lattice structures with auxetic elastic behavior is a recent and promising solution in the …

Wave propagation in periodic locally resonant materials (LRM) is characterized by the
presence of band-gaps occurring at relatively low frequencies which can be exploited for …

An innovative special class of tunable periodic metamaterials is designed, suitable for
realizing high-performance acoustic filters. The metamaterial is made up of a phononic …