Three kinds of the periodical structures are designed as low-pass, high-pass, and band-pass filters for elastic wave. The theoretical simulations have proved that the periodical surface slots can act as a ow-pass filter for elastic wave. With increasing depth of the surface periodical structure in the sample,he cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter is decreased. Unlike the surface periodical structure, the eriodical subsurface structure can work as a high-pass filter for elastic wave. The cutoff frequency of the igh-pass filter is suppressed by the increase of the subsurface structure thickness. When the two eriodical structures are combined together, the band-pass filter is obtained, in which the pass band is etermined by the cutoff frequencies of the low-pass and high-pass filters. © 2009 American Institute of Physics. (DOI: 10.1063/1.3131043)