Mechanics and Acoustics of Metamaterials

This book is summarizing the state of the art of metamaterials from the point of view of rational and applied mechanics. It contains 15 chapters written by well-known researchers in the field of acoustics and mechanics of metamaterials and includes in-depth discussions on mechanical and acoustical properties of metamaterials, covers a vast array of methods enabling to elaborate models of metamaterials and research their properties, provides a forecast for the development of metamaterials and their applications.