Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical
behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic …

Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

The introduction of engineered resonance phenomena on surfaces has opened a new
frontier in surface science and technology. Pillared phononic crystals, metamaterials, and …

The study of phononic materials and structures is an emerging discipline that lies at the
crossroads of vibration and acoustics engineering and condensed matter physics. Broadly …

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

Propagation of elastic waves in acoustic metamaterials based on locally resonant
viscoelastic phononic crystals is discussed. A variational formulation of the complex band …

Identifying material geometries that lead to metamaterials with desired functionalities
presents a challenge for the field. Discrete, or reduced-order, models provide a concise …

We consider two-dimensional phononic crystals formed from silicon and voids, and present
optimized unit-cell designs for (1) out-of-plane,(2) in-plane, and (3) combined out-of-plane …

The paper presents an in-depth analysis of solid locally resonant acoustic metamaterials
(LRAMs) consisting of rubber-coated inclusions. Dispersion properties of two-dimensional …

This study aims to demonstrate the reduction in noise and vibration of an automobile dash
panel structure by applying a locally resonant metamaterial (LRM). LRMs are implemented …