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physics.app-ph2026

Effect of introducing viscoelastic polyurethane on the dispersion and vibration isolation efficiency of chiral phononic crystals

Line Mardini, Andrea Bergamini, Claus Claeys +2

Phononic crystals, a sequence of masses and (damped) springs, are being used more and more in practical applications, exploiting Bragg bandgaps to attenuate vibration transmission…

physics.app-ph2025

Practical implementation of a chiral phononic crystal demonstrator with ultra-low frequency bandgap

Line Mardini, Andrea Bergamini, Claus Claeys +2

The use of phononic crystals for vibration attenuation and isolation has been widely studied, showing that the attenuation frequency range depends on their mass and stiffness. The…

physics.app-ph2025★ 27 cited

A practical review on promoting connectivity in topology optimization

Vanessa Cool, Niels Aage, Ole Sigmund

Topology optimization facilitates the automated design of high-performance structures across various engineering fields but, if unconstrained, often produces designs that are compl…

physics.app-ph2024★ 15 cited

k-space Physics-informed Neural Network (k-PINN) for Compressed Spectral Mapping and Efficient Inversion of Vibrations in Thin Composite Laminates

Saeid Hedayatrasa, Olga Fink, Wim Van Paepegem +1

The vibrational response of structural components carries valuable information about their underlying mechanical properties, health status and operational conditions. This undersco…

physics.app-ph2023★ 14 cited

A guide to numerical dispersion curve calculations: explanation, interpretation and basic Matlab code

Vanessa Cool, Elke Deckers, Lucas Van Belle +1

Dispersion diagrams play a crucial role in examining, analyzing and designing wave propagation in periodic structures. Despite their ubiquity and current research interest, introdu…

physics.app-ph2017★ 227 cited

Organic and perovskite solar cells for space applications

Ilaria Cardinaletti, Tim Vangerven, Steven Nagels +13

For almost sixty years, solar energy for space applications has relied on inorganic photovoltaics, evolving from solar cells made of single crystalline silicon to triple junctions…