Elastic wave scattering by a pair of parallel semi-infinite cracks in mechanical metamaterials with multi resonators

As emerging artificial structures, elastic wave metamaterials can show some unique properties in special frequency regions. In this study, the elastic wave scattering by a pair of parallel semi-infinite cracks in mechanical metamaterials with local resonators is studied. According to the discrete Wiener–Hopf method, the far field displacement solution is obtained. At the same time, the dynamic negative effective mass and band gaps can be observed with local resonators. Our attention is focused on how the internal microstructure affects the crack faces. Numerical results show that because of the stop band, the crack can be prevented from being disturbed by incident waves in specific frequency regions. As a result, the possibility of crack initiation and instability propagation is reduced considerably. This present work is expected to provide a way to improve arrest performance of elastic waves metamaterials.