Engineers design metasurfaces to help control surface wave propagation

 https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-metasurfaces-surface-propagation.html

"controlling havoc from earthquakes and  explosions, and smaller scale surface wave filtering and manipulation could induce desirable properties in electronic devices and acoustics... topology optimizes patterned sheets with tunable properties, metasurfaces, control surface waves... resonating structures stop plate waves from propagating into specific area... resonators optimally shaped to have certain resonance and antiresonance"