Dynamic cloaking of a diamond-shaped hole in elastic plate

Kun Tang, Eitam Luz, David Amram, Luna Kadysz, Sébastien Guenneau, Patrick Sebbah

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Abstract

Invisibility cloaks for flexural waves have mostly been examined in a continuous-wave regime, while invisibility is likely to deteriorate for short pulses. Here, we propose the practical realization of a unidirectional invisibility cloak for flexural waves based on an area-preserving coordinate transformation. Time-resolved experiments reveal how the invisibility cloak deviates a pulsed plane wave from its initial trajectory and how the initial wavefront perfectly recombines behind the cloak, leaving the diamond-shaped hole invisible, notwithstanding the appearance of a forerunner. Three-dimensional full-elasticity simulations support our experimental observations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011701
Number of pages7
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume122
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jan 2023

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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