We have developed a new method of an earthquake-resistant design to support conventional aseismic designs using acoustic metamaterials. We suggest a simple and practical method to reduce the amplitude of a seismic wave exponentially. Our device is an attenuator of a seismic wave. Constructing a cylindrical shell-type waveguide that creates a stop-band for the seismic wave, we convert the wave into an evanescent wave for some frequency range without touching the building we want to protect.
@article{arxiv.1202.1586,
title = {Seismic Waveguide of Metamaterials},
author = {Sang-Hoon Kim and Mukunda P. Das},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1586},
year = {2015}
}