Review of exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses

GU Patil, KH Matlack - Acta Mechanica, 2022 - Springer
Phononic materials are periodically arranged building blocks in the form of material
properties, geometries, and/or boundary conditions. This synthetic architecture makes …

A brief review of metamaterials for opening low-frequency band gaps

K Wang, J Zhou, D Tan, Z Li, Q Lin, D Xu - Applied Mathematics and …, 2022 - Springer
Metamaterials are an emerging type of man-made material capable of obtaining some
extraordinary properties that cannot be realized by naturally occurring materials. Due to …

[HTML][HTML] A nonlinear metamaterial plate for suppressing vibration and sound radiation

X Fang, P Sheng, J Wen, W Chen, L Cheng - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nonlinear acoustic metamaterials (NAMs) exhibit extraordinary properties for low-frequency
and broadband vibration mitigation. Despite the increasing attention received, exotic …

A semi-active metamaterial beam with electromagnetic quasi-zero-stiffness resonators for ultralow-frequency band gap tuning

K Wang, J Zhou, H Ouyang, L Cheng, D Xu - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introducing a negative-stiffness mechanism (NSM) into a traditional linear resonator to form
a high-static-low-dynamic-stiffness (HSLDS) resonator is an ideal way to create a low …

Nonlinear elastic metamaterial for tunable bandgap at quasi-static frequency

MH Bae, JH Oh - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a new nonlinear elastic metamaterial which shows tunable bandgap at quasi-
static frequency, starting from zero frequency. While there have been active researches on …

Vibration properties and optimized design of a nonlinear acoustic metamaterial beam

P Sheng, X Fang, J Wen, D Yu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2021 - Elsevier
Lightweight, low-frequency, broadband and highly efficient vibration reduction is widely
desired in various devices. Nonlinear acoustic metamaterial (NAM) is a new type of …

The low frequency structure-borne sound problem in multi-storey timber buildings and potential of acoustic metamaterials: A review

B Gibson, T Nguyen, S Sinaie, D Heath, T Ngo - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, advances in timber engineering, combined with an associated evolution in
building codes, have led to a significant expansion of multi-storey timber construction …

A nonlinear dissipative elastic metamaterial for broadband wave mitigation

X Xu, MV Barnhart, X Fang, J Wen, Y Chen… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nonlinearity and dissipation are two important aspects in elastic metamaterials that hold the
potential to provide a novel method for the control of elastic waves. Here, we present a …

Synthetical vibration reduction of the nonlinear acoustic metamaterial honeycomb sandwich plate

P Sheng, X Fang, L Dai, D Yu, J Wen - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Light-weight and high-stiffness honeycomb sandwich plates are widely used in high-speed
vehicles. Suppressing their low-frequency and broadband vibration is significant for …

[HTML][HTML] “Borrow-force-attack-force” by multi-scale elastic metamaterial with nonlinear dam**

C Zhang, D Zhang, F Yin, M Guo, F Ma, C Wu - Composites Part B …, 2025 - Elsevier
The powerful energy carried by low-frequency vibration is often challenging to be effectively
attenuated using traditional dam** materials. If low-frequency vibration can be controlled …