Mechanics and Acoustics of Metamaterials

This book is summarizing the state of the art of metamaterials from the point of view of rational and applied mechanics. It contains 15 chapters written by well-known researchers in the field of acoustics and mechanics of metamaterials and includes in-depth discussions on mechanical and acoustical properties of metamaterials, covers a vast array of methods enabling to elaborate models of metamaterials and research their properties, provides a forecast for the development of metamaterials and their applications.

On Anti-Plane Waves Localized Near Sharp Interface Between two Elastic Half Spaces: Lattice Dynamics Approach. - Plane Longitudinal Strain Waves in Auxetic Materials with Point Defects. - Emergence of Lamb Wave Pass and Gap Bands in Waveguides with Periodically Arranged Elastic Inclusions. - Guided Waves Propagation in Elastic Metamaterial Plates with Voids and Surface Irregularities. - Soundproof Metamaterials. - Modeling of Elastic Plastic Deformation Processes of Structural Alloys Under Monotonic and Cyclic Modes of Disproportionate Loading. - Numerical Experimental Study of High-Speed Bending of a Composite Beam. - Nonlinear Dynamics in a Symmetric Electromechanical Vibro Impact System. - About Various Types of Anisotropy in Piezoelectric Metamaterials. - Dispersion Properties of a Mass in Mass Chain Consisting of Spherical Particles. - Boundary Element Analysis for Partially Saturated Poroelastic Solids via Time Stepping Method. - Reduction of the Boundary Value Problem for a Micropolar Medium to a Tensor Block Form of a System of Linear Algebraic Equations for Assessing Scale Effects. - Application of Dynamic Model of a Blocky Medium to Describe the Plastic Deformation of a Structurally Inhomogeneous Material at the Mesoscale Level. - Description of a Crack by a Nonlocal Model of an Elastic Medium. - Axisymmetric Unsteady Oscillations of an Elastic Moment Spherical Shell.