Richard V. Craster & Sébastien Guenneau 
Acoustic Metamaterials [PDF ebook] 
Negative Refraction, Imaging, Lensing and Cloaking

About the book: This book is the first comprehensive review on acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission. It covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of acoustic and elastic waves propagating in structured composites, with a focus on effective properties associated with negative refraction, lensing and cloaking. Most related books in the field address electromagnetic metamaterials and focus on numerical methods, and little (or no) experimental section. Each chapter will be authored by an acknowledged expert, amongst the topics covered will be experimental results on non-destructive imaging, cloaking by surface water waves, flexural waves in thin plates. Applications in medical ultrasound imaging and modeling of metamaterials will be emphasized too. The book can serve as a reference for researchers who wish to build a solid foundation of wave propagation in this class of novel materials.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface.- 1 Fundamentals of acoustic metamaterials.-  2 Locally resonant structures for low frequency surface acoustic band gap applications.-  3 Band-gap properties of prestressed structures.- 4 Ultrasound transmission through periodically perforated plates.- 5 Novel Ultrasound Imaging Applications.- 6 Subwavelength focussing in metamaterials using far field time reversal.- 7 Anisotropic metamaterials for transformation acoustics and imaging.- 8 Transformation Acoustics.- 9 Acoustic Cloaking Via Homogenization.- 10 Acoustic Cloaking with Plasmonic Shells.- 11 Cloaking Liquid Surface Waves and Plasmon Polaritons.- 12 Transformation elastodynamics and active exterior acoustic cloaking.