“…Mechanical metamaterials have been recently hailed as a new class of structural concept able to bring novel multifunctionalities 4 by changes of compliance, shape, or by embedding oscillators or smart material inserts. Some examples (to name a few) are multiscale architecturally structured topologies, 5 zig-zag folded sheets, 6 pentamodal lattices, 7 systems with distributed resonators, 8,9 smart/magnetic materials, 10 tunable connectivity, 11 phononic stubbed plates, 12 flat lenses (super lenses), 13 3D tunable phononic crystals, 14 tunable metamaterial beam with shape memory alloy resonators, 15,16 auxetic periodic structure (with negative Poisson ratio) 17,18 and nonlinear auxetic dampers. 19 Further author information: (Send correspondence to Morvan Ouisse) E-mail: morvan.ouisse@femto-st.fr, Telephone: +33 3 81 66 60 00 A phononic crystal is a metamaterial with a periodic structure, that exhibits spatial periodicity.…”