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An Overview on Acoustic Metamaterials

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Acoustic metamaterials are artificially engineered composites composed of mesoscopic subwavelength units, which have recently become an active field with an enormous range of potential applications. These media, which derive their properties from their structure rather than from the chemical properties of their constitutive materials, can be tailored in such a fashion to exhibit arbitrary effective constitutive parameters, ranging from very large positive to negative values. Initially proposed to achieve super absorption, acoustic metamaterials are today investigated to obtain numerous extraordinary effects, which include compact wavefront modulation, cloaking, asymmetric transmission, sub-diffraction focusing, etc. In this article, we review some of the most relevant works in this field and analyse the basic phenomena governing the behaviour of different kinds of acoustic metamaterials. We conclude with an outlook on active acoustic metamaterials, in which inclusions can provide energy to the impinging wave to obtain effective material properties that are not possible in passive structures.

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The publication was written at Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH in Graz, Austria. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support within the COMET K2 Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action (BMK), the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW), the Province of Styria (Dept. 12) and the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG). The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) has been authorised for the programme management.

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  1. Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Cubo 45C, 87036, Rende, Italy

    Walter Bova & Domenico Mundo

  2. Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Inffeldgasse 21a, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Walter Bova & Eugene Nijman

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  1. DIMEAS, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

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  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

    Victor Petuya

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Bova, W., Nijman, E., Mundo, D. (2022). An Overview on Acoustic Metamaterials. In: Quaglia, G., Gasparetto, A., Petuya, V., Carbone, G. (eds) Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2021. I4SDG 2021. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87383-7_58

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