Lecture Manuel Collet, CNRS

Research activities in smart materials and adaptive structures are of a great interest for many years. New technologies are now available for implementing smart cells inside architected material allowing us to design and construct a new class of smart materials that we can call “programmable metacomposites”.  These new generalized composites allow integration of dense and distributed set of smart materials, electronics, chip sets and power supply system inside material, for implementing distributed control strategies. This paves the way to imagine new strategies to control vibroacoustic flow in a large frequency band and implement unconventional behavior such as non-reciprocal wave propagation.