Smart25 Linz Austria : Minisymposium “Functional and non-linear metamaterials”

The interesting properties of metamaterials emerge from the interaction of a multitude of the unit cells that they are made of. Linear behavior of the unit cell can be exploited to achieve useful properties such as dispersion, including partial or total bandgaps, anisotropic wave propagation, topologically protected modes and others. Advanced numerical methods are customarily used to investigate these behaviors, in ideal metamaterials, whereby also very compact models can be used, to investigate mechanical and multi-field systems alike.