Design and demonstration of novel meta-material concepts for wave mitigation in soil. The first layer (“Meta-Soil”) foresees measures for treating the soil which circumscribes the structures, rendering the structures fully or partially isolated from the effect of the incident ground waves from all directions. “Meta-Soil” includes a spectrum of wave mitigation measures based on extended meta-material concepts, such as cloaks or properly designed pile arrays/”artificial forests”, which enable diversion of seismic and other low frequency waves, or advanced energy dissipation mechanisms, such as “rainbow traps”. The research work is divided in 5 individual research tasks as follows:
A dissemination and training trip to US
ESR05 Seismic resonant metamaterials have the potential to be used as an effective method for earthquake protection of structures [..]
Experimental tests on a negative stiffness metamaterial device
ESR01 ESR01 is working on vibration mitigation devices, exploring the effect[..]
Towards creating seismic-proof cities (Meta-Cities)
ESR05 With the view to protect a large number of existing structures [..]
Seismic metasurfaces on porous layered media
ESR03 Seismic metasurfaces on porous layered media by [..]
Structural vibration reduction utilizing impact phenomena
ESR01 Structural vibration reduction utilizing impact phenomena by [..]