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An incremental wave superimposed on a pre-deformed hyper-elastic material perceives an elastic media with the instantaneous modulus of the current material. This offers a new route with a broadband feature to control elastic waves by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Dengke Guo , Yi Chen , Zheng Chang , Gengkai Hu

The recent progress in the context of elastic metamaterials and modulated waveguides with digitally controllable properties has opened new pathways to overcome the limitations dictated by Hermitian Hamiltonians in mechanics. Among the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Emanuele Riva

Interactions between solitary waves have been pivotal to understanding nonlinear phenomena across various disciplines. The dynamics of rarefaction solitary waves holds great potential, yet their fundamental characteristics and interactions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-21 Yasuhiro Miyazawa , Christopher Chong , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Jinkyu Yang

In this paper, lightweight metastructures are designed consisting of prismatic tensegrity building blocks which have excellent strength-to-weight ratio and also enable unique compression-torsion coupling. A theoretical model with coupled…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Y. T. Wang , X. N. Liu , R. Zhu , G. K. Hu

Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials are architected lattices designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves. In these materials, the dispersion properties and the energy transfer are controlled by selecting the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Osama R. Bilal , David Ballagi , Chiara Daraio

The architecture of mechanical metamaterialsis designed to harness geometry, non-linearity and topology to obtain advanced functionalities such as shape morphing, programmability and one-way propagation. While a purely geometric framework…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Corentin Coulais , Chris Kettenis , Martin van Hecke

We design a two-dimensional ultra-thin elastic metasurface consisting of steel cores coated with elliptical rubbers embedded in epoxy matrix, capable of manipulating bulk elastic wave modes for reflected waves. The energy exchanges between…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Pai Peng , Cheng Feng , Kangcheng Zhou

Recent interest in metamaterials has led to a renewed study of wave mechanics in different branches of physics. Elastodynamics involves a special intricacy, owing to a coupling between the volumetric and shear parts of the elastic waves.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ben Lustig , Guy Elbaz , Alan Muhafra , Gal Shmuel

In this work, we examine the application of phononic metamaterials for elastic impact noise insulation in tiled flooring, through the development of an innovative ceramic metatile that incorporates phononic crystals with optimized joint…

Rotationally resonant metamaterials are leveraged to answer a longstanding question regarding the existence of transformation-invariant elastic materials and the ad-hoc possibility of transformationbased passive cloaking in full plane…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 H. Nassar , Y. Y. Chen , G. L. Huang

Transformation methods have stimulated many interesting applications of manipulating electromagnetic and acoustic waves by using metamaterials, such as super-lens imaging and cloaking. These successes are mainly due to the form-invariant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Hexuan Gao , Zhihai Xiang

Wave propagation control is of fundamental interest in many areas of Physics. It can be achieved with wavelength-scaled photonic crystals, hence avoiding low frequency applications. By contrast, metamaterials are structured on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Simon Yves , Thomas Berthelot , Geoffroy Lerosey , Fabrice Lemoult

Linearly polarized elastic waves propagating in a linear path have been extensively explored in numerous applications from biomedical imaging to structural health monitoring. However, elastic waves propagating in a circularly polarized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Mohamed Roshdy , Osama R. Bilal

Transition waves in mechanical metamaterials manifest themselves as propagating interfaces between different stable states in lattices composed of arrays of coupled, intrinsically bistable elements. Here, we show experimentally and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Eleonore Duval , Giada Risso , Alex Zhang , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

Programmable materials hold great potential for many applications such as deployable structures, soft robotics, and wave control, however, the presence of instability and disorder might hinder their utilization. Through a combination of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-26 Audrey A. Watkins , Austin Eichelberg , Osama R. Bilal

Anisotropic homogeneous metamaterials that are neither wholly dissipative nor wholly active at a specific frequency are permitted by classical electromagnetic theory. Well-established homogenization formalisms indicate that such a…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

In this work, a novel hierarchical mechanical metamaterial is proposed that is composed of re-entrant truss-lattice elements. It is shown that this system can deform very differently and can exhibit a versatile extent of the auxetic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-14 Krzysztof K. Dudek , Julio A. Iglesias Martínez , Muamer Kadic

The subject of mechanical metamaterials has been gaining significant attention, however, their widespread application is still halted. Such materials are usually considered as stand-alone, vis-\`a-vis all characteristic length scales being…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Adrianos E. F. Athanasiadis , Marcelo A. Dias , Michal K. Budzik

Tuning the mass density and bulk modulus independently is the key to manipulate the propagation of sound wave. Acoustic metamaterials provide a feasible method to realize various acoustic parameters. However, the relevant studies are mainly…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Yafeng Bi , Ping Zhou , Han Jia , Fan Lu , Yuzhen Yang , Peng Zhang , Jun Yang

We propose a polarization modulation scheme of electromagnetic (EM) waves through reflection of a tunable metamaterial reflector/absorber. By constructing the metamaterial with resonant unit cells coupled by diodes, we demonstrate that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhu , Yijun Feng Junming Zhao , Ci Huang , Zhengbin Wang , Tian Jiang