Advanced Acoustic Metamaterials (Volume-II): A Practical Guide to Wave Engineering, Structural Design, and Industrial Sound Control

What if sound could be bent around an object?What if a material could possess properties that do not exist in nature?What if geometry could be engineered to create silence, redirect energy, or make structures effectively invisible to acoustic waves?These questions define the frontier of modern wave engineering.Advanced Acoustic Metamaterials - Volume II takes readers beyond the fundamentals and into the extraordinary world of engineered acoustic behavior. Building upon the foundations of phononic crystals, resonant structures, and bandgap physics, this volume explores the advanced mechanisms that allow metamaterials to manipulate sound with unprecedented precision.Inside you'll discover: Negative effective mass density and bulk modulusDouble-negative metamaterials and acoustic cloakingTransformation acoustics and coordinate mappingComputational meshing for acoustic latticesFluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)Topology optimization and inverse designViscothermal losses and boundary layer dampingFailure modes, fatigue, and structural reliabilitySub-wavelength design principles and scaling constraintsCombining mathematical rigor, engineering intuition, computational methods, and real-world implementation strategies, this volume bridges the gap between theoretical physics and next-generation acoustic technologies.For engineers, researchers, graduate students, and innovators, Volume II provides the tools needed to move beyond passive noise control and into the active engineering of wave behavior itself.The future of acoustics is no longer about blocking sound.It is about designing reality through geometry.

Pages: 399, Paperback, Independently published