Polarization bandgaps and fluid-like elasticity in fully solid elastic metamaterials

Controlling elastic waves in medium is essential to many applications in mechanical to earthquake engineering. Ma et al. demonstrate selective suppression of different vibrational modes in a three-dimensional rod-shape structure, which shows fluid-like elasticity with only longitudinal waves propaga...

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Main Authors: Guancong Ma, Caixing Fu, Guanghao Wang, Philipp del Hougne, Johan Christensen, Yun Lai, Ping Sheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13536