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 …

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 …

This paper proposes the design of an active nonlinear metamaterial for broadband and
tunable low-frequency wave attenuation governed by a lever-based nonlinear amplification …

Enhancing vibration isolation with locally resonant metamaterials has attracted wide
attention due to low-frequency band-gap. Moreover, nonlinear periodic structure could …

Despite their engineering significance, locally resonant metamaterials are facing the
challenge to cope with the need for broad-range band gap adjustment at low-frequencies …

This paper develops a novel type of two-dimensional (2D) locally resonant (LR)
metamaterials with quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) property both in the horizontal and vertical …

A novel one-dimensional quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) metamaterial is proposed to acquire
very low-frequency band gaps. The representative unit cell (RUC) of the QZS metamaterials …

A novel metamaterial beam with embedded quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) resonator is
proposed to realize wave attenuation in very low-frequency band gaps. The configuration of …

Nonlinear acoustic metamaterials (NAMs) exhibit extraordinary properties for low-frequency
and broadband vibration mitigation. Despite the increasing attention received, exotic …

To achieve wave attenuation at ultra-low frequencies, a novel metamaterial plate with
attached compliant quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) resonators is proposed. Firstly, the compliant …