Printable versionWaves in metamaterials and periodic structures
Lecturers: Oreste S. Bursi (UNITN/DICAM), Francesco Dal Corso (UNITN/DICAM), Diego Misseroni (UNITN/DICAM) and Giacomo Oliveri (UNITN/DICAM)
Timetable: spring 2023
Programme:
Prof. Francesco Dal Corso and Prof. Diego Misseroni – 6 hours
Prof. Francesco Dal Corso
- One-dimensional mechanical wave equation
- Discrete one-dimensional systems (the monoatomic and the diatomic chains)
- Two and three dimensional discrete systems
Prof. Diego Misseroni
- Bloch waves in origami metamaterials
- Cloaking transformation in elastic plates
- Scattering reduction of flexural waves propagation through boundary stiffening and mass redistribution
- Vibration experiments on elastic metamaterials
Prof. Giacomo Oliveri and Prof. Andrea Massa – 4 hours
Prof. Andrea Massa
- The nature of Electromagnetic Waves – Maxwell’s Equations and the EM Wave Equation
- Canonical Solutions to Maxwell’s Equations: Plane Waves in Homogeneous Media
- Waves and planar interfaces? The Snell’s Laws
Prof. Giacomo Oliveri
- Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Metamaterials: concept, design, implementation
- Waves and Metamaterials - the Generalized Snell’s Laws
- Applications of Generalized Snell’s Laws to Wave Control in EM Systems
Prof. Oreste S. Bursi – 6 hours
6 lectures on: Seismic metamaterials for vibration mitigation of process plant components
- Motivation
- Metamaterial Concept
- Importance of experiments
- Modeling and machine learning
- Structural (passive) control
- Random vibration
- Optimization
- Attenuation and non attenuation zones
- Vibration mitigation of liquid storage tanks
- Vibration mitigation of small modular reactors
- Non-linear issues
- Conclusions and Outlooks
Duration: 16 hours (2 credits)
Registration: in order to register for the course please send an email to dicamphd [at] unitn.it