Kathryn Matlack, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ankit Srivastava, Illinois Institute of Technology

Stephan Rudykh,  Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Stefano Gonella,  University of Minnesota

Mechanical metamaterials have the ability to manipulate wave propagation to achieve novel functionalities such as super-resolution imaging, cloaking, and backscatter-immune wave propagation. This session will highlight the current state-of-the-art in manipulating wave propagation with mechanical metamaterials, with a focus on strategies to spatially and temporally control waves, non-reciprocal metamaterials and topologically-protected modes, nonlinearity-induced tunability and adaptivity in architected materials, and advanced design, optimization, and fabrication methods to realize such mechanical metamaterials.

Keywords: material systems, dynamics of waves