Hierarchy provides unique opportunities for the design of advanced materials with superior
properties that arise from architecture, rather than from constitutive material response …

This paper aims to investigate the propagation of low-frequency seismic surface waves in
periodic in-filled barriers from the viewpoint of bandgaps. Based on Bloch-Flouquet theory …

Locally resonant phononic crystals (LRPC) are able to give low-frequency band gap to
attenuate the vibration in a specific frequency range; however, the local resonance band …

There is growing demand in industrialized and develo** countries to provide people and
structures with effective earthquake protection. Here, we employ architectured material …

Earthquake prevention is of fundamental interest in seismic research area. Seismic
metamaterials proved very useful for this purpose, but because they are mainly based on …

In this paper, we propose an innovative design of an elastic network, which is capable of
channelling the energy supplied by an external source towards any of its endpoints, that can …

A snowman-like seismic metamaterial is proposed in this study. The proposed model gives a
lower and wider complete bandgap compared with the seismic metamaterials of the same …

Herein, a hierarchical acoustic metamaterial with a spider‐web‐like structure is proposed
based on bionics theory. The wave propagation behaviors of the hierarchical structures are …

This study investigates the transmission characteristics of natural forests with branches and
introduces a bio-inspired branch structure seismic metamaterial (SM) designed to create …

Exploring the dynamical response of mechanical metamaterials has gathered increasing
attention in the last decades, enabling the design of microstructures exotically interacting …