Metamaterials in Topological Acoustics

There is an ever-increasing demand for renewable energies to support the exploding number of low-power personal electronics and sensors without overloading our main power grid. One of the functions of our future material systems will be to guide, filter, trap, and harvest acoustic energy to make it acoustically inured and renewable, simultaneously. In this futuristic vision, metamaterials hold the key to this success. Harvesting energy from metamaterials is a newly devised concept still at its infancy but one that shows great promise. This book introduces the topological behavior of acoustics and possibilities of harvesting energy from acoustical energy through the novel design of metamaterials. As an equivalent counterpart of topological research on photonics and condensed matter physics, acoustic metamaterials create an opportunity to explore the topological behaviors in photonics and physics of programmable acoustics. This book provides valuable insight into acoustic metamaterials, from multidisciplinary fundamentals to cutting-edge research.

• Serves as a single resource on acoustic metamaterials and is the first book to discuss energy harvesting from metamaterials
• Covers the fundamentals of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and state-of-the-art condensed matter physics principles so that topological acoustics can be easily understood by engineers
• Introduces topological behaviors, acoustics hall effects, and applications
• Details smart materials and introduces different energy harvesting mechanisms for metamaterials followed by mechatronics packaging
• Explains the pros and cons of different design methods and gives guidelines for selecting specific designs of acoustic metamaterials with specific topological behaviors
• Includes MATLAB and Python code for numerical analysis

This book is designed for graduate students, researchers, scientists, and professionals across materials, mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering, and those who want to enhance their understanding and commence research in metamaterials.