“…Periodic structures or locally resonant systems, also known as metamaterials, have revolutionized the control of waves these last years [1,2]. The main physical properties of these structured media, as for example the opening of band gaps [3,4], the slow wave frequency band [5,6], or the spatial filtering [7], among others, can be directly derived from the complex dispersion relation [8][9][10][11][12]. In addition to dispersive effects, wave attenuation can be caused by factors such as geometric attenuation or intrinsic material loss (e.g., heat or viscous dissipation).…”