Band gaps for elastic flexural wave propagation in periodic composite plate structures with star-shaped, transversely isotropic, magneto-electro-elastic inclusions

A new model for predicting elastic flexural wave band gaps in periodic composite plate structures containing interconnected, star-shaped, transversely isotropic, magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) inclusions is developed using a microstructure-dependent Mindlin plate model. The Floquet–Bloch theorem and the plane wave expansion method for periodic media are employed to solve the non-classical wave equations and to determine the band gaps...