Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

University of Liverpool

Université Paul Cézanne Aix-marseille III

Universite Paul Cezanne Marseille III

Sébastien Guenneau

Stéphane Enoch

Mohamed Farhat

Alexander Movchan

A structure for bending transversal elastic waves around a zone to isolate of a plate, has an anisotropic Young's modulus and/or a heterogeneous mass density. The wavelengths of the elastic waves to bend are large with respect to the thickness of the plate and small with respect to the other dimensions of the plate. The structure is made by defining a meshing of a peripheral zone surrounding the zone to isolate; dividing the peripheral zone into several elementary rings and several elementary angular sectors; and forming, in each mesh delimited by an elementary angular sector and an elementary ring, a structural element in a material having a Young's modulus and/or a mass density different than those of the material forming the plate, the dimensions of the meshes and of the structural elements in the plane of the plate being less than half the wavelengths of the elastic waves to bend.

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Marseilles, France

Sébastien Guenneau