Vincent TOURNAT

Nonlinear waves and Acoustics 

T. Devaux, V. Tournat, O. Richoux, V. Pagneux,  

Asymmetric acoustic propagation of wave packets via the self-demodulation effect,  

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 234301 (2015). PDF  

(selected as Editors' Suggestion) 

S. Babaee, J.T.B. Overveld, E.R. Chen, V. Tournat, K. Bertoldi,  

Reconfigurable Origami-inspired Acoustic Waveguides,  

Science Advances 2:e1601019, (2016). PDF  

(selected as the cover image and article of the volume) 

B. Deng, J.R. Raney, V. Tournat, K. Bertoldi,  

Elastic vector solitons in soft architected materials,  

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118(20), 204102 (2017). PDF  Supp. Mat.  

(Selected as Editors' Suggestion) 

B. Deng, C. Mo, V. Tournat, K. Bertoldi, J.R. Raney,  

Focusing and Mode Separation of Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial,  

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123(2), 024101 (2019). RG PDF Supp. Mat. 

 

Video on these results 

B. Deng, P. Wang. Q. He, V. Tournat, K. Bertoldi,  

Metamaterials with amplitude gaps for elastic solitons,  

Nature Communications 9, 3410 (2018). PDF Supp. Mat. 

B. Deng, V. Tournat, P. Wang, K. Bertoldi,  

Anomalous collisions of elastic vector solitons in mechanical metamaterials,  

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 044101 (2018). PDF Supp. Mat. 

Selected research results 

T. Devaux, A. Cebrecos, O. Richoux, V. Pagneux, V. Tournat,  

Acoustic radiation pressure for nonreciprocal transmission and switch effects,  

Nature Communications 10:3292 (2019). RG PDF Supp. Mat.  

Press releases on these results: 

CNRS INSIS 

Le Mans Université 

Techno-sciences 

L. Jin, R. Khajehtourian, J. Mueller, A. Rafsanjani, V. Tournat, K. Bertoldi, D. M. Kochmann, Guided transition waves in multistable mechanical metamaterials, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 201913228 (2020). PDF RG Movies