OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Experimental Mechanics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief	66
An Internal Digital Image Correlation Technique for High-Strain Rate Dynamic Experiments	53
Compressive Properties of Aluminium Foam-Filled Square Stainless Steel Tubes With Elliptical and Circular Holes	28
An Inverse Parameter Identification in Finite Element Problems Using Machine Learning-Aided Optimization Framework	26
Sensitivity Study Using Synthetic 3D Image Datasets to Investigate the Effect of Noise Artefacts on Digital Volume Correlation	22
On the Cover: Measurement Layout for Residual Stress Mapping Using Slitting	20
Ductile Fracture Modeling of Flaw-Containing Additively Manufactured SS316L: Application to Complex Structures	20
Coupled Hydraulic-Mechanical Experimental System for Evaluating Dynamic Mechanical and Transport Behaviors of Deep Rocks	19
Measuring Residual Strain and Stress in Thermal Spray Coatings Using Neutron Diffractometers	19
On the Cover: A Novel Method to Measure Equi-Biaxial Residual Stress by Nanoindentation	17
On the Cover: A Comparison of Conventional Gel Stiffness Characterization Techniques with Cavitation Rheology	16
Statistical Assessment of Tensile Static, Creep and Fatigue Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP	15
On the Cover: High‑Speed, 3D Volumetric Displacement and Strain Mapping in Soft Materials Using Light Field Microscopy	15
Analysis of Deformation Mechanisms in Metal Extrusion of 17–4 PH Stainless Steel: Influence of Layer Thickness and Contour Number	15
A Modified Iosipescu Method to Study In-Plane Shear Strength of C/SiC Composites at Elevated Temperatures in Air	15
The Effect of Bulk Residual Stress on Milling-Induced Residual Stress and Distortion	15
Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling of the Impact Behavior of PVC Foams	14
Extracting Mixed-Mode Fracture Parameters Using Two Vision-based Methods: Comparison of Combined Fields Method with Legacy Approach	14
Rotating Vibration Measurement Using 3D Digital Image Correlation	14
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis in the Presence of Biaxial Stresses in Titanium: Effect of the Mean Stress on Errors in Stress Evaluation	14
Aramid Fiber Surface Area Impact on Elastomer Crack Growth	14
Towards a Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Residual Stress Measurements with Relaxation Methods: Finding Average Residual Stresses is a Well-Posed Problem	13
Synchronous Raman Spectroscopy Method for Measuring Strain-Charge Information of Graphene Materials	13
Crack Growth of Defects in Ti-6Al-4V Under Uniaxial Tension: Measurements and Modeling	12
Micro-deformation Study of Stainless Steel Impacted by Ceramic Particle Using Electron Moiré Method	12

Research on Strain Modulation of Spectral Reflectance in Soft Materials	12
Residual Stresses from Incremental Hole Drilling Using Directly Deposited Thin Film Strain Gauges	12
Effect of Speckle Edge Characteristics on DIC Calculation Error	12
The Effect of Variable Nozzle Temperature and Cross-Sectional Pattern on Interlayer Tensile Strength Of 3D Printed ABS Specimens	12
Calorific Analysis of the Mechanical Response of Granular Materials Composed of Ellipsoidal Rubbery Particles	11
Effect of Solution Methods for Evolutionary R-Values on the Prediction of Anisotropic Yield Behavior	11
Quantitative Full-Field Data Fusion for Evaluation of Complex Structures	11
High-Speed, 3D Volumetric Displacement and Strain Mapping in Soft Materials Using Light Field Microscopy	11
A Novel High-Speed Bulge Test to Identify the Large Deformation Behavior of Sheet Metals	10
Bending of Soft Micropatterns in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Tribology	10
Microindentation of Cartilage Before and After Articular Loading in a Bioreactor: Assessment of Length-Scale Dependency Using Two Analysis Methods	10
Density, Microstructure, and Strain-Rate Effects on the Compressive Response of Polyurethane Foams	10
Development and Analysis of an On-Road Torque Measurement Device for Trucks	10
Damage Quantification via Digital Volume Correlation with Heterogeneous Mechanical Regularization: Application to an In situ Meso-Flexural Test on Mortar	10
Residual Stress Measurements in Extreme Environments for Hazardous, Layered Specimens	10
A Modular Peel Fixture for Tape Peel Tests on Immovable Substrates	10
Analysis of Damage and Failure in Anisotropic Ductile Metals Based on Biaxial Experiments with the H-Specimen	10
Biaxial Strain Control Fatigue Testing Strategies for Composite Materials	9
A New Proposal for a Method to Measure Orthogonal R-Value Using a Single Tensile Test with Three-Dimensional Digital Image Correlation	9
A Dynamic Hydraulic Fracturing Test Technology Based on Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar System	9
Stability and Resolution of a Conventional Displacement Measuring Heterodyne Interferometer Using a Single Phase-Locked Loop	9
A Comparison of Conventional Gel Stiffness Characterization Techniques with Cavitation Rheology	9
Phase-Shifting Technique of Coherent Gradient Sensing Method for Residual Deformation Analysis of Repaired Components	9
Interlaminar Fracture Toughness Measurement of Multilayered 2D Thermoelectric Materials Bi2Te3 by a Tapered Cantilever Bending Experiment	9
Dynamics of Miniature and High-Compliance Structures: Experimental Characterization and Modeling	9
Development and Application of Dynamic Integrated DIC Material Parameters Inversion Method for SHPB Tests	9
Mechanical Characterisation and Cohesive Law Calibration for a Nitrocellulose Based–Cyclotetramethylene Tetranitramine (HMX) Polymer Bonded Explosive	8
On the Strain Measurement for Thermoplastics with Bi-Axial Extensometer in Thermo-Mechanical Testing: A Case of Characterizing Temperature and Physical Aging Effects on Polycarbonate	8
Residual Stress Determination of Cast Aluminium Benchmark Components Using Strain Relief Techniques	8
Spherical Indentation Method for Measuring Biaxial Residual Stresses Without Using Stress-Free Sample	8
Simulation of Infinite Boundaries When Evaluating Hole-Drilling Calibration Data	8
Compact Probe for Non-Contact Ultrasonic Inspection with the Gas-Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection (GCLAD) Technique	8
Unique Identification of Stiffness Parameters in Hyperelastic Models for Anisotropic, Deformable, Thin Materials Based on a Single Experiment - A Feasibility Study Based on Virtual Full-Field Data	8
Correction: Assessment and Validation of Incremental Hole-Drilling Calculation Methods for Residual Stress Determination in Fiber-Metal Laminates	7
Frame Rate Traceability in High-Speed Cameras for Accurate Time Measurement	7
On the Cover: Architecture Driven Digital Volume Correlation: Application to the Analysis of In-Situ Crushing of a Polyurethane Foam	7
High-Speed Deformation Measurement with Event-Based Cameras	7
Open Source, In-Situ, Intermediate Strain-Rate Tensile Impact Device for Soft Materials and Cell Culture Systems	7
Correction: Experimental Investigation of the Ballistic Response of Head Surrogate Against Fragment Simulating Projectiles	7
Semi-Analytical Approach to Determine Interfacial Adhesion in Polymer-Bonded Explosives	7
Intermethod Comparison and Evaluation of Measured Near Surface Residual Stress in Milled Aluminum	7
On the Cover of this Issue: In-situ Strain Field Measurement and Mechano-Electro-Chemical Analysis of Graphite Electrodes via Fluorescence Digital Image Correlation by H. Xie, W. Yang, Y. Kang, Q. Zh	7
Fatigue and Progressive Damage of Thin Woven CFRP Plates Weakened by Circular Holes	7
Physics-Informed Neural Network Based Digital Image Correlation Method	7
Correction: A Comparative Study of the Performance of IR Detectors vs. High-Speed Cameras Under Dynamic Loading Conditions	7
Nano-Indentation Hardness and Strain Hardening of Silicon, Sodium Chloride and Tungsten Crystals	7
Influence of Second-Order Effects on Thermoelastic Behaviour in the Proximity of Crack Tips on Titanium	7
Optimization on Cruciform Specimen Geometries of AA5052 Under Equi-Biaxial Loading: Acquisition of Ultimate Fracture Strain	7
Dynamic Magneto-Mechanical Analysis of Isotropic and Anisotropic Magneto-Active Elastomers	7
Contour Method with Uncertainty Quantification: A Robust and Optimised Framework via Gaussian Process Regression	7

Assessing the Potential of Heterogeneous Mechanical Tests for Sheet Metals Through Experimentally Measured Full-Fields	6
Special Collection on New Methods and Applications of Optical and Photo-Mechanics	6
A Damage Sensing Method of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Via Multi-frequency Electrical Impedance Fusion	6
On the Importance of Direct-Levelling for Constitutive Material Model Calibration using Digital Image Correlation and Finite Element Model Updating	6
On the Cover: Contour Method with Uncertainty Quantification: A Robust and Optimised Framework via Gaussian Process Regression	6
On the Cover: Characterization and Prediction of Polymer/Active Material Interface Failure in Battery Electrodes	6
On the Cover: Rapid and Repeatable Fluorescent Speckle Pattern Fabrication Using a Handheld Inkjet Printer	6
Loading Rate Effects for Flaws Undergoing Mixed-Mode I/III Fracture	6
Assessing the Validity of Analytical Equations for Offshore Power Cable Bending with Fixed and Loose Tube Fiber Strain Sensors	6
Influence of the Specimen Thickness on the Interlayer Shear Strengths of Additively Manufactured Polymers	6
A Note On Measuring Mechanical Fields in 3-D Solids Using Digital Gradient Sensing and Refractive Index Matching	6
A Note of Gratitude from the Editor-in-Chief	6
On the Cover: Unique Identification of Stiffness Parameters in Hyperelastic Models for Anisotropic, Deformable, Thin Materials Based on a Single Experiment - A Feasibility Study Based on Virtual Full-	6
Rapid Determination of Fatigue Limit Using Temperature Second Harmonic	6
On the Cover: Accounting for Localized Deformation: A Simple Computation of True Stress in Micropillar Compression Experiments	6
Towards Quantitative Crystal Plasticity Model Validation Using Experimental In-plane Deformation Maps	5
Super Resolution Digital Image Correlation (SR-DIC): an Alternative to Image Stitching at High Magnifications	5
An Experimental Methodology to Characterize the Plasticity of Sheet Metals from Uniaxial to Plane Strain Tension	5
Investigating the Mechanism of Facet Formation and the Influence of Crack Initiation Size on a Cast Aluminum Alloy in Ultrasonic Fatigue Under Varied Humidity Environments	5
Designing Patterns for DIC with Poisson Image Editing	5
Mode III Fracture Toughness Measurement Using the Transverse Shear Cracked Plate Specimen	5
Stress-Based S–N Base Function with Shear Modulus for Fatigue Assessment on Industrial Isolators	5
Oil-Pressure Based Apparatus for In-Situ High-Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Studies During Biaxial Deformation	5
Ill-Posedness and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Residual Stress Measurement Inverse Solutions	5
Experimental Study on the Elastic–plastic Transitions of the Hetero-structured High Pressure Die Casting Mg–Al-RE Alloy	5
Feasibility of Nondestructive Measurement of 3D Vascular Intramural Strains by Optical Coherence Elastography Based on Distortion Correction and Digital Volume Correlation	5
Digital Image Correlation at Extreme Temperatures Using Shortwave Ultraviolet (UV-C) Lights and Filters	5
A Hybrid Method for the Online Evaluation of Stress Fields in Metal Additive Manufacturing	5
Damage Detection and Quantification via Multiview DIC at Varying Scales	5
2D and 3D Characterization of Damage Mechanisms in A319 Alloy	5
Experimental Modal Analysis of Nonlinear Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators by Using Response-Controlled Stepped-Sine Testing	5
Improved Image-Based Welding Status Recognition with Dimensionality Reduction and Shallow Learning	5
An Attempt to Predict Transparent Armor Ballistic Performance through Quasi-Static Punch Shear Test	5
Thermoelastic Stress Measurement Using SVD Thermo-Component Analysis	5
Determination of the Modulus of Elasticity by Bending Tests of Specimens with Nonuniform Cross Section	5
A Frequency Domain Error Model for Local 2D-DIC	5
Characterization of Flow Induced Anisotropy in Sheet Metal at Large Strain	5
Multi-view Digital Image Correlation Systems for In Vitro Testing of Arteries from Mice to Humans	5
A Label-Free Measurement Method for Plane Stress States in Optical Isotropic Films with Spectroscopic Ellipsometry	5
Identification of Bimodular Material Parameters via a Semi-Closed Form Solution of the Brazilian Test	5
Hole-Drilling Method for Deep Residual Stress Measure in Tensile Armour Wires	5
Mechanical Characterisation and Simulation of the Tensile Behaviour of Polymeric Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures	5
Simultaneous and Contactless Characterization of the Young’s and Shear Moduli of Gelatin-Based Hydrogels	5
X-Ray Digital Image Correlation: A Reliable Method for Deformation Measurement at 1000 °C	5
Distributed Electro-Mechanical Coupling Effects in a Dielectric Elastomer Membrane Array	5
Direct Determination of the Power Threshold Value of Vortex Avalanche in YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Films Triggered by a Laser Pulse	5
Temperature Dependent Dynamic Response of Open-Cell Polyurethane Foams	5