Topological mechanical chains : hidden symmetries and nonlinear phenomena

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• Georgios Theocharis (Université du Maine)
• Friday 26 May 2023, 10:50-11:35
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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MWSW04 - Multiple scattering in engineering and applied sciences

Following the recent discovery of topological insulators in condensed matter physics, a new notion of topology has emerged in association with the intrinsic wave dispersion of a structure. This has led to a plethora of mechanical designs with non-trivial and robust energy localization. In this talk, after a short review of the different classes of topological mechanical metamaterials, we will introduce a new family of finite-frequency mechanical metamaterials that we have recently introduced. Here, topological properties appear in deformation coordinates while topological edge waves appear for free boundaries. In the second part, we will focus our attention on the effect of nonlinearity. In particular, we will discuss our recent efforts to understand the interplay between nonlinearity and topology in mechanical systems. By choosing simple topological systems and including different types of nonlinearities, we will present various phenomena that we have predicted, such as the amplitude-dependent topological transition and the formation of solitons.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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