Tunable and active phononic crystals and metamaterials

YF Wang, YZ Wang, B Wu… - Applied …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
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 …

Buckling induced negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial for bandgap tuning

K Zhang, L Qi, P Zhao, C Zhao, Z Deng - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Negative-stiffness mechanical metamaterials that can achieve bandgap tuning are a novel
area of intense interest, enabling vibration control as well as a wide range of mechanical …

Tunable bandgaps in soft phononic plates with spring-mass-like resonators

Y Huang, J Li, W Chen, R Bao - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Controlling band gaps of phononic crystals in real time through external stimuli (eg
mechanical loadings, electric fields, and magnetic fields) shows potential applications in …

Lightweight architected lattice phononic crystals with broadband and multiband vibration mitigation characteristics

CW Lim, JTH Li, Z Zhao - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel architected lattice metamaterial with broadband and multiband bandgap
characteristics is studied here. A slight structural modification in a regular lattice structure …

Harnessing inclusions to tune post-buckling deformation and bandgaps of soft porous periodic structures

J Li, Y Wang, W Chen, YS Wang, R Bao - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence of phononic crystals paves a new way for manipulating elastic waves in
structures for their particular bandgap properties. In this paper, the two-dimensional soft …

Harnessing post-buckling deformation to tune sound absorption in soft Helmholtz absorbers

N Gao, S Qu, J Li, J Wang, W Chen - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Helmholtz resonator (HR) has always been an important part of artificial sound-absorbing
materials, most of which however cannot be tuned in real time and hence have a limited …

Pneumatic soft phononic crystals with tunable band gap

X Liu, N Chen, J Jiao, J Liu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Tuning the band gap by mechanically generating deformation of soft phononic crystals
provides an effective means to manipulate the propagation of acoustic waves. In this paper …

Tunable characteristics of low-frequency bandgaps in two-dimensional multivibrator phononic crystal plates under prestrain

HF Zhu, XW Sun, T Song, XD Wen, XX Liu, JS Feng… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In view of the influence of variability of low-frequency noise frequency on noise prevention in
real life, we present a novel two-dimensional tunable phononic crystal plate which is …

A pneumatic soft acoustic metamaterial through modular design

K Zhang, N Chen, W Zhu, J Liu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tunable acoustic metamaterials have excellent sound waves control and manipulation
properties because of their deformations under different stimuli. Pneumatic actuation has …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of strain stiffening and electrostriction on tunable elastic waves in compressible dielectric elastomer laminates

Y Chen, B Wu, Y Su, W Chen - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents an electromechanical analysis of the nonlinear static response and the
superimposed small-amplitude wave characteristics in an infinite periodic compressible …