Mechanical Metamaterials, Phononic Crystals, Acoustic Metamaterials and Symmetries
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 994
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metamaterials, that is, artificial materials elaborately designed to achieve unusual performance, have been extensively investigated in recent decades. Their objective performance includes unusual electromagnetic, thermal, acoustic, or mechanical behaviors, including negative index, cloak, negative thermal expression, negative Poisson’s ratio and so on. Specifically, in the field of mechanical engineering, extraordinary mechanical or acoustic behaviors such as acoustic-wave transmission with expected bandgaps and propagation paths as well as full-band mechanical vibration isolation can be achieved. Microstructural design with objective applications occupies the central position in the field of mechanical metamaterials.
This Special Issue will focus on the technological innovation and exploration of the new designs and the latest achievements in the field of mechanical metamaterials, especially acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals.
Topics of Interest:
The Special Issue on mechanical metamaterials, phononic crystals, acoustic metamaterials and symmetries invites original contributions in areas including but not limited to the following:
- Mechanical metamaterials with extraordinary mechanical behaviors: unusual shape deformation, mechanical cloaking, negative Poisson’s ratio/thermal expansion and so on.
- Experimental and theoretical research in phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, especially in the low-frequency domain.
- Engineering applications of acoustic metamaterials and phononic crystals: noise reduction, directed sound transmission, acoustic cloaking, experimentation and verification.
- New-generation mechanical metamaterials with periodic, quasiperiodic or aperiodic structures: new methods, devices, materials, fabrication processes and so on.
Dr. Lingling Wu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metamaterials
- acoustic
- phononic crystals
- periodic
- aperiodic
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