COLLOQUIUM 580
Strongly Nonlinear Dynamics and Acoustics of Granular Metamaterials

11 July — 13 July 2016, France

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Nonlinear dynamics of granular metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials and mechanical structures : solitary wave propagation, nonlinear localized modes and resonances, multistability...
  • Applications of  nonlinear acoustic metamaterials to vibration and shock mitigation, acoustic filtering and lensing, energy redirection and harvesting,…
  • Impacts and vibrations in granular media and multibody systems : experiments, physical and numerical modeling, effective medium properties, multiple impact laws, nonsmooth models…
  • Analysis of nonlinear waves in discrete mechanical systems through bifurcation theory, modulation theory, variational methods,…
  • Industrial applications