Elastic Metasurfaces for Low-Frequency Flexural Wavefront Control

Controlling elastic/acoustic wave-front via compact designs has attracted increasing research interest in past decades. The emerging of metasurface concept provides an unconventional and attractive approach in this filed. A metasurface generally consists of a single array of subwavelength-scaled patterns in the host medium, introducing an abrupt phase shift in the wave propagation path. In this paper, we explored an elastic metasurface concept to control the propagation of low-frequency flexural Lamb waves. The phase modulation based on the Snell’s law was achieved by tailoring the thickness of thin beam resonators connecting two elastic host medium. Depending on the design of the phase-modulated structure (a.k.a. metasurface), elastic waves could be steered or focused which was verified through analytical and numerical models.