Earthquakeproof Engineering by Metamaterials

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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.