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Topological mechanics

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Electronic topological insulators have inspired the design of new mechanical systems that could soon find real-life applications.

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Figure 1: Overview of the two different families of topological acoustic metamaterials (zero-frequency versus high-frequency).
Figure 2: Measured helical edge spectrum of a mechanical topological insulator.

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