From photonic crystals to seismic metamaterials: A review via phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials

Muhammad, CW Lim - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2022‏ - Springer
The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

Topological valley mode separation of elastic waves and potential applications

X Dong, K Chen, J Zhang, Y Huangfu, Z Peng - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Topological metamaterials in condensed matter systems have shown significant potential for
information and energy applications due to their novel wave propagation behaviors …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic composite metamaterial: a review

AS Qahtan, J Huang, M Amran, DN Qader… - Journal of Composites …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
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 …

Wide Rayleigh waves bandgap engineered metabarriers for ground born vibration attenuation

CW Lim, KK Żur - Engineering Structures, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The present study proposes two types of engineered resonant metabarrier designs for
ground born vibration attenuation at subwavelength frequency region. By establishing …

Forest trees as a natural metamaterial for surface wave attenuation in stratified soils

C He, S Zhou, X Li, H Di, X Zhang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Forest trees have been shown to act as a natural metamaterial to attenuate elastic waves.
However, the existing studies assumed that forest trees are located on homogeneous soils …

A new periodic seismic metamaterial with ultra-low bandgap for lamb waves

Y Wang, F Yang, JS Yang, LL Tong, Q Liu… - Mechanics of …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we propose a new seismic metamaterial (SM) that can cover the main
frequency range of earthquakes by introducing curved boundaries on a square cross …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic metamaterial surface for broadband Rayleigh waves attenuation

W Yu, L Zhou - Materials & Design, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Elastic metamaterials (EMMs) have been widely studied owing to their advantages in
controlling the propagation of elastic waves. In the past decade, considerable efforts have …

Graded seismic metamaterials with structural steel sections for low-frequency isolation of surface wave

K Zhang, J Luo, F Hong, J Yu, C Zhao… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - World Scientific
By introducing the concept of a graded structure to seismic metamaterials, a new type of
graded seismic metamaterial assembled using four steel sections with different graded …

Broadband surface wave attenuation in porous soil by elastic metasurfaces

A Ni, Z Shi, Q Meng - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024‏ - Elsevier
To mitigate surface waves in ambient vibration, a novel broadband elastic metasurface is
proposed by periodically burying the layered in-filled pipes below the ground surface. The …

Radial seismic metamaterials with ultra-low frequency broadband characteristics

L Li, Q Jia, M Tong, P Li, X Zhang - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The metamaterials applications for protecting buildings by manipulating seismic waves,
such as nuclear power plants and ancient buildings protection, have garnered considerable …