The advancement in electromagnetic metamaterials, which commenced three decades ago,
experienced a rapid transformation into acoustic and elastic systems in the forms of …

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 …

The present study proposes two types of engineered resonant metabarrier designs for
ground born vibration attenuation at subwavelength frequency region. By establishing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The metamaterials applications for protecting buildings by manipulating seismic waves,
such as nuclear power plants and ancient buildings protection, have garnered considerable …

Rayleigh wave isolation using metamaterials is a research hotspot in the engineering
community, yet the development of relevant mitigation methods remains an open and …

Vibration isolation metamaterial barrier has been extensively studied in mitigating the
damage induced by vibration, while a deeper understanding of the vibration isolation …