• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.944-945
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.643-644
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.04a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2013

We introduced an earthquake-resistant design using acoustic rnetamaterials. There are two way in that field: one is a cloaking method and the other is a shadow zone method of seismic waves. Cloaking is a general property of a wave that changes the direction depending on the refractive index. Metamaterials control the propagation and transmission of specified parts of the wave and demonstrate the potential to render an object seemingly invisible. The shadow zone is a method of negative modulus using many huge resonators and it attenuates the amplitude of the wave exponentially. We compared and explained the fimdarnental principles of the two methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.335-342
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• 2015

Phononic crystals are composite materials consisting of a periodic arrangement of scattering inclusions in a host material. One of the most important properties of phononic crystals is the existence of band gaps, i.e., ranges of frequencies at which acoustic waves cannot propagate through the structure. The present study aims to investigate theoretically and experimentally the acoustic band structures in two-dimensional (2D) phononic crystals consisting of periodic square arrays of stainless steel solid cylinders with a diameter of 1 mm and a lattice constant of 1.5 mm in water. The theoretical dispersion relation that depicts the relationship between the frequency and the wave vector was calculated along the ${\Gamma}X$ direction of the first Brillouin zone using the finite element method to predict the band structures in the 2D phononic crystals. The transmission and the reflection coefficients were measured in the 2D phononic crystals with 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 layers of stainless steel cylinders stacked in the perpendicular direction to propagation at normal incidence. The theoretical dispersion relation exhibited five band gaps at frequencies below 2 MHz, the first gap appearing around a frequency of 0.5 MHz. The location and the width of the band gaps experimentally observed in the transmission and the reflection coefficients appeared to coincide well with those determined from the theoretical dispersion relation.