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Welcome to phononic's documentation!
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This documentation describes a software for prediction of band gaps in phononic
materials.

Abstract
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The phononic materials are bi-phasic elastic media with periodic structure and
with large contrasts between the stiffness parameters associated with different
phases, whereas their specific mass is comparable. For certain frequency
ranges, such elastic structures can suppress the elastic wave propagation,
i.e. they exhibit the band gaps. We consider piezoelectric composite materials
where the large contrasts are related not only to elasticity, but also to other
piezoelectric parameters, namely the piezoelectric coupling coefficients and
the dielectricity. The software can predict distribution of the band gaps in
such media for stationary or long guided waves very effectively, due to the use
of the homogenization based two-scale modeling.

Keywords: phononic materials; band gaps; elasticity; piezo-elasticity

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   users_guide
   developer_guide

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`