Title:
Dynamics and Topology of Nonlinear and Aperiodic Metastructures

dc.contributor.advisor Erturk, Alper
dc.contributor.advisor Ruzzene, Massimo
dc.contributor.author Xia, Yiwei
dc.contributor.committeeMember Meaud, Julien
dc.contributor.committeeMember Maldovan, Martin
dc.contributor.committeeMember Alu, Andrea
dc.contributor.department Mechanical Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-11T17:11:21Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-11T17:11:21Z
dc.date.created 2020-12
dc.date.issued 2020-12-02
dc.date.submitted December 2020
dc.date.updated 2021-01-11T17:11:21Z
dc.description.abstract Metamaterials and metastructures (i.e., metamaterial-based finite structures with specified boundary conditions) enable various properties that are not found in ordinary materials and structures. For example, locally resonant (LR) elastic/acoustic metastructures exhibit bandgaps at wavelengths much longer than the lattice size, enabling low-frequency vibration/noise attenuation. Most investigations in this domain have considered nominally identical linear resonators that are periodically attached to the structure. In these cases, the LR bandgap depends on the natural frequency of the resonators, and the bandwidth is limited by the added inertia and the electromechanical coupling in mechanical and electromechanical metastructures, respectively. In this work, the LR metastructure concept is expanded in two directions: one is including nonlinearity, specifically considering bistable attachments; the other one is including aperiodicity, namely by considering the resonators in quasiperiodic arrangements. First, numerical and experimental results show the amplitude-dependent enhancement of the attenuation bandwidth in LR metastructures via bistable attachments, and demonstrate that the vibration attenuation band offered by nonlinear interwell oscillations is substantially wider than the linear LR bandgap. Next, the dynamic behavior and topological properties of LR mechanical metastructures hosting quasiperiodic distributions of resonators are investigated. It is shown both numerically and experimentally that quasiperiodic placement of resonators introduces additional bandgaps that are topologically non-trivial and host protected edge-localized modes. The findings suggest the application of quasiperiodic resonators as an effective way to achieve attenuation over multiple frequency bands and to control vibration localization at desired frequencies. In analogy with mechanical LR metastructures with quasiperiodic arrangements of resonators, electromechanical LR metastructures with quasiperiodic resonant shunt circuits are explored. Topologically non-trivial bandgaps and associated edge-localized modes are observed experimentally in an electromechanical metastructure by leveraging digitally programmable synthetic impedance circuits. Additional studies investigate the transitions of localized mode through slow phase modulation, with experimental observation of temporal topological pumping in an electromechanical structure under stiffness modulation via variable negative capacitance circuits.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/64142
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Metamaterials
dc.subject Metastructures
dc.subject Locally resonant
dc.subject Piezoelectricity
dc.subject Nonlinearity
dc.subject Quasiperiodicity
dc.subject Vibration
dc.subject Structural dynamics
dc.title Dynamics and Topology of Nonlinear and Aperiodic Metastructures
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Erturk, Alper
local.contributor.corporatename George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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