Elastodynamic Transformation Cloaking for Non-Centrosymmetric Gradient Solids

In this paper we investigate the possibility of elastodynamic transformation cloaking in bodies made of non-centrosymmetric gradient solids. The goal of transformation cloaking is to hide a hole from elastic disturbances in the sense that the mechanical response of a homogeneous and isotropic body with a hole covered by a cloak would be identical to that of the corresponding homogeneous and isotropic body outside the cloak. It is known that in the case of centrosymmetric gradient solids exact transformation cloaking is not possible; the balance of angular momentum is the obstruction to transformation cloaking. We will show that this no-go theorem holds for non-centrosymmetric gradient solids as well.