• Provides a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic response of lattice materials, covering the fundamental theory and applications in engineering practice
• Offers comprehensive treatment of dynamics of lattice materials and periodic materials in general, including phononic crystals and elastic metamaterials
• Provides an in depth introduction to elastostatics and elastodynamics of lattice materials
• Covers advanced topics such as damping, nonlinearity, instability, impact and nanoscale systems
• Introduces contemporary concepts including pentamodes, local resonance and inertial amplification
• Includes chapters on fast computation and design optimization tools
• Topics are introduced using simple systems and generalized to more complex structures with a focus on dispersion characteristics

Editors
A. Srikantha Phani, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mahmoud I. Hussein, University of Colorado Boulder, USA