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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic Magneto-Mechanical Analysis of Isotropic and Anisotropic Magneto-Active Elastomers	65
Simulation of Infinite Boundaries When Evaluating Hole-Drilling Calibration Data	23
Synchronous Raman Spectroscopy Method for Measuring Strain-Charge Information of Graphene Materials	22
Correction: Assessment and Validation of Incremental Hole-Drilling Calculation Methods for Residual Stress Determination in Fiber-Metal Laminates	19
Correction: A Comparative Study of the Performance of IR Detectors vs. High-Speed Cameras Under Dynamic Loading Conditions	19
Editorial: Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief	17
Quantitative Full-Field Data Fusion for Evaluation of Complex Structures	17
4D Porosity Evolution in Additively Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel through In-Situ Tensile Testing and X-Ray Computed Tomography	16
Compressive Properties of Aluminium Foam-Filled Square Stainless Steel Tubes With Elliptical and Circular Holes	15
Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling of the Impact Behavior of PVC Foams	15
High-Speed, 3D Volumetric Displacement and Strain Mapping in Soft Materials Using Light Field Microscopy	15
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	14
Special Collection on New Methods and Applications of Optical and Photo-Mechanics	14
A Note On Measuring Mechanical Fields in 3-D Solids Using Digital Gradient Sensing and Refractive Index Matching	14
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-	14
2D and 3D Characterization of Damage Mechanisms in A319 Alloy	13
Rapid Determination of Fatigue Limit Using Temperature Second Harmonic	13
Thermoelastic Stress Measurement Using SVD Thermo-Component Analysis	13
Hole-Drilling Method for Deep Residual Stress Measure in Tensile Armour Wires	13
Ill-Posedness and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Residual Stress Measurement Inverse Solutions	13
Thermal Stress Analysis for Functionally Graded Plates with Modulus Gradation, Part II	13
On Detecting Elastoplastic Shakedown Using Minimal Digital Image Correlation Results and an Elastic Model: Demonstration for AA6061 Auxetic Sheets	12
Designing Patterns for DIC with Poisson Image Editing	12
Algorithms for Nanoindentation Strain Rate Jump Testing and Analysis	12
Uphill Quenching to Reduce Residual Stress in Aluminium Alloy 7449 Hollow Structures	11

Mechanical Characterisation and Simulation of the Tensile Behaviour of Polymeric Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures	11
The Role of Buckling Instabilities in the Global and Local Mechanical Response in Porous Collagen Scaffolds	11
Improvement in Calibration Procedure in Nanoindentation: An Indenter Bluntness Indicator	11
Comparison Study of Three Camera Calibration Methods Considering the Calibration Board Quality and 3D Measurement Accuracy	11
Uncoupling the Effects of High Strain Rate and Adiabatic Heating on Strain Induced Martensitic Phase Transformations in a Metastable Austenitic Steel	11
Exploring Humerus Bone’s Fracture Patterns and Fixation Systems Via Laser Vibrometry	11
Data-Driven Accelerated Parameter Identification for Chaboche-Type Visco-Plastic Material Models to Describe the Relaxation Behavior of Copper Alloys	11
Analysis and Comparison of the Projectile Impact Response of an Electron Beam Melt-Ti64 Body Centered Cubic Lattice-Cored Sandwich Plate	10
On the Cover of this Issue: Relaxation and Recovery in Hydrogel Friction on Smooth Surfaces by B. Wu, J. S. Méndez Harper, and J. C. Burton	10
Measurement of Contact Force–Deformation Curves of Colliding Two Identical Spheres	10
Quantification of Reinforcement Debonding in Damaged Mortar via Digital Volume Correlation	10
Subsurface and Bulk Residual Stress Analysis of S235JRC + C Steel TIG Weld by Diffraction and Magnetic Stray Field Measurements	10
A Compact ESPI System for Measuring 3D Displacements	10
An INNOVative Approach for Mechanical Characterization of Coatings on Fibres	10
Influence of the Experimental Setup on the Damping Properties of SLM Lattice Structures	10
Mitigating Cutting-Induced Plasticity Errors in the Determination of Residual Stress at Cold Expanded Holes Using the Contour Method	10
A Robot-Assisted Microscopy System for Digital Image Correlation in Fatigue Crack Growth Testing	10
Fine-Tuning a Deconvolution Algorithm to Restore Displacement and Strain Maps Obtained with LSA	9
Fatigue Damage Evolution in SS316L Produced by Powder Bed Fusion in Different Orientations with Reused Powder Feedstock	9
On the Cover: Operando Characterizations of Lithium Penetration-Induced Fracture in Solid Electrolytes by M. Lu, S. Xia	9
Numerical Modelling of an Aneurysm Mechanical Characterisation Device: Validation Procedure Based on FEA-DIC Comparisons	9
Novel Speckle Preparation and Heat Insulation Method for DIC Strain Measurement at Cryogenic Temperature and Large Deformation Environment	9
A Strain Field Reconstruction Method Based on Digital Twin by Multi-Level Fusion of Multi-Type Data	9
A Novel MEMS Platform for Thermomechanical Characterization of Nanomaterials	9
Debonding Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Anchors in Concrete via In-Situ X-Ray Microtomography Tests Coupled to Volume and Digital Image Correlation	8
Rapid and Repeatable Fluorescent Speckle Pattern Fabrication Using a Handheld Inkjet Printer	8
Size-Dependent Fracture Characteristics of Intermetallic Alloys	8
Thermal Shock Testing of Ceramics Using Non-Uniform Radiant Heating	8
Ultraviolet Single-Camera Stereo-Digital Image Correlation for Deformation Measurement up to 2600 °C	8
The SFIR Test: An Innovative Hydrostatic Compression Test to Characterize the Volumetric Behavior of Polymeric Foams	8
The Estimation of Taylor-Quinney Coefficients Using Small Ring Specimens	8
Application of Laser Deposition to Mechanical Characterization of Advanced High Strength Steels Subject to Non-Proportional Loading	8
A Method to Measure Effective Flexural and Transverse Shear Modulus of Composite Structures with Large Aspect Ratio	8
High-Speed, Full-Field Deformation Measurements Near Inertial Microcavitation Bubbles Inside Viscoelastic Hydrogels	8
Tikhonov Regularization for the Fully Coupled Integral Method of Incremental Hole-Drilling	8
Biomechanical Hand Model: Modeling and Simulating the Lateral Pinch Movement	8
Experimental Investigation of the Ballistic Response of Head Surrogate Against Fragment Simulating Projectiles	8
Load Capacity of Concave Conical Shells with Randomly Positioned Circular Cutouts	8
Simulation and Experimental Validation of the Cure Process of an Epoxy-Based Encapsulant	8
Experiments on Low–Cycle Ductile Damage and Failure Under Biaxial Loading Conditions	7
On the Cover: Introducing Virtual DIC to Remove Interpolation Bias and Process Optimal Patterns	7
Quantification of Errors in Applying DIC to Fiber Networks Imaged by Confocal Microscopy	7
In-Situ Characterization on Fracture Toughness of Thermal Barrier Coatings Under Tension by J-Integral with Digital Image Correlation at High Temperatures	7
An Improved Strain Field Reconstruction Method Based on Digital Twin for Test Monitoring	7
Introducing Virtual DIC to Remove Interpolation Bias and Process Optimal Patterns	7
Friction Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites	7
A Method to Perform an Experimental Modal Analysis of a Medium Head Francis Runner in Operation	7
A Method for Detection of Internal Defects of Dielectric Materials Based on Pulsed Electro-Acoustic Technique	7
An Experimental Methodological Approach for Obtaining Viscoelastic Poisson’s Ratio of Elastomers from Creep Strain DIC-Based Measurements	7
Strain Determination Using a Global Interpolation Concept Based on Coherence Scanning Interferometry Measurements	7

Opening-Dominated Fracture Characterization of Single Crystal Spinel in the Transmission Electron Microscope	7
Shape Measurements of Lattice Materials from Few X-Ray Radiographs Using the 3D Virtual Image Correlation (3D-VIC) Method	7
A Modified Losipescu Method for Evaluating In-Situ Shear Behavior Using High-Temperature X-Ray Computed Tomography	6
Accuracy Analysis on Counterweight-Balanced Column Bending Test	6
Sensitivity Study Using Synthetic 3D Image Datasets to Investigate the Effect of Noise Artefacts on Digital Volume Correlation	6
Evaluation of Wave Velocity in Orthotropic Media Based on Intrinsic Transfer Matrix	6
Measuring Residual Strain and Stress in Thermal Spray Coatings Using Neutron Diffractometers	6
Crack Growth of Defects in Ti-6Al-4V Under Uniaxial Tension: Measurements and Modeling	6
Predicting Camera Sensor Noise Propagation to Displacement and Strain Maps Retrieved from Checkerboard Patterns with Localized Spectrum Analysis	6
Density, Microstructure, and Strain-Rate Effects on the Compressive Response of Polyurethane Foams	6
High Accurate Stereo-Digital Image Correlation Method in Liquid Nitrogen Immersion Conditions with Single Camera	6
Development of a P‒T-Model-Based In-Situ Bending Measurement Method for Nanowires: Addressing Mechanical Challenges in High-Precision Experiments	6
Correction: Experimental Investigation of the Ballistic Response of Head Surrogate Against Fragment Simulating Projectiles	6
Dynamics of Miniature and High-Compliance Structures: Experimental Characterization and Modeling	6
Optimization on Cruciform Specimen Geometries of AA5052 Under Equi-Biaxial Loading: Acquisition of Ultimate Fracture Strain	6
Residual Stresses from Incremental Hole Drilling Using Directly Deposited Thin Film Strain Gauges	6
A Novel High-Speed Bulge Test to Identify the Large Deformation Behavior of Sheet Metals	6
On the Cover: Characterization and Prediction of Polymer/Active Material Interface Failure in Battery Electrodes	6
Layer Jamming of Magnetorheological Elastomers for Variable Stiffness in Soft Robots	6
Necking-Shaped Shear Experiment for Measuring the Interlayer Shear Strengths of 3D Printed Titanium Alloys	6
Incremental FIB-DIC Ring-Core Methods for the Residual Stress Measurement of Bilayer Thin Films	6
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis in the Presence of Biaxial Stresses in Titanium: Effect of the Mean Stress on Errors in Stress Evaluation	6
Universal Calibration Constants for Strain Gauge Hole-Drilling Residual Stress Measurements	6
Research on Strain Modulation of Spectral Reflectance in Soft Materials	6
Effect of Solution Methods for Evolutionary R-Values on the Prediction of Anisotropic Yield Behavior	6
Defect Evolution in Tensile Loading of 316L Processed by Laser Powder Bed Fusion	5
On the Cover: 2020 Murray Lecture: Quantitative Full Field Data Fusion for Evaluation of Complex Structures	5
Biaxial Extension of Cruciform Specimens: Embedding Equilibrium Into Design and Constitutive Characterization	5
Comparison of Hall–Petch Law with an Elastic Limit Identification Method Using Kinematic Field Measurements	5
Evaluation of Volumetric Strain on Polyamide 6 by Thermodynamic Entropy Generation	5
Uniaxial Magnetic Pulse Tension of TiNi Alloy with Experimental Strain Rate Evaluation	5
Experimental Studies of Impact Resistance of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives	5
Imposition of Constraints on the Regularized Integral Method of Incremental Hole-Drilling	5
Measurement of Nonuniform Strain Distribution in CORC Cable Due to Bending Process by a Segmentation-Aided Stereo Digital Image Correlation	5
Triaxial Characterization of Foams at High Strain Rate Using Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar	5
On the Cover: Designing Patterns for DIC with Poisson Image Editing	5
Dynamic Compressive Test of Saturated Sandstones Under Ambient Sub-Zero Temperature	5
An Experimental and Analytical Investigation on the Deformation of Inclined Metallic Fibres for Optimized Design of Fibrous Porous Materials	5
On the Cover: Analysis of Damage and Failure in Anisotropic Ductile Metals Based on Biaxial Experiments with the H-Specimen	5
Stereo-DIC Challenge 1.0 – Rigid Body Motion of a Complex Shape	5
Stress-Based S–N Base Function with Shear Modulus for Fatigue Assessment on Industrial Isolators	5
Improved Image-Based Welding Status Recognition with Dimensionality Reduction and Shallow Learning	5
Mechanical Fatigue Testing Under Thermal Gradient and Manufacturing Variabilities in Nickel-Based Superalloy Parts with Air-Cooling Holes	5
Critical Evaluation of Identified Flow Curves Using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Solutions for Compression Test	5
Study of Thermomechanical Behavior of Refractory Materials Under Thermal Gradient. Part I – Presentation of ATHORNA Device and Experimental Protocol	5
Lethality Evaluation of Japanese Tanegashima and Korean Seungja-Chongtong via Projectile Penetration and Mass Drop Experiments	5
Experimental Identification of Frictional Effects on Interlaminar Toughness of Composite Laminates in 4ENF Test	5
A Photoacoustic Method to Measure the Young’s Modulus of Plant Tissues	5
Improvement of the Arcan Setup for the Investigation of Thin Sheet Behavior Under Shear Loading	5
Ballistic and Blast-Relevant, High-Rate Material Properties of Physically and Chemically Crosslinked Hydrogels	5
Creep Characterization of Amorphous SiO2 in the Transmission Electron Microscope Using Digital Image Correlation and Finite Element Analysis	5
An Improved Test Procedure for Mechanical Characterization of Flax-Epoxy Composites	5
Estimation of Fatigue Limit for Aluminum Alloy Laser Welds Based on Dissipated Energy	5
Thermal Expansion Coefficient Measurement of Stack Structure of REBCO Coated Conductors By Strain Gages At Cryogenic Temperatures	5
Coupling Self-Adaptive Meshing-Based Regularization and Global Image Correlation for Spatially Heterogeneous Deformation Characterization	5
Image-Based Deformation Measurement of Aerodynamic Heating Surfaces Using Time-Gated Active Imaging Digital Image Correlation	5
Path-Integrated Stereo X-Ray Digital Image Correlation: Resolving the Violation of Conservation of Intensity	5
SpatioTemporally Adaptive Quadtree Mesh (STAQ) Digital Image Correlation for Resolving Large Deformations Around Complex Geometries and Discontinuities	5
Determination of Residual Stresses in Cylindrical Components by the Hole-drilling Method	5
Guided Ultrasound Inspection of Small Features Using a Horn-Type Transducer Design	5
A Nanomechanical Testing Framework Yielding Front&Rear-Sided, High-Resolution, Microstructure-Correlated SEM-DIC Strain Fields	5
On the Cover: High Speed Impact Testing of UHMWPE Composite Using Orthogonal Arrays	5
An Experimental Method for Fatigue Testing Cast Iron Water Pipes Using Combined Internal Water Pressure and Bending Loads	5
An Accurate Strain Gauge Positioning Approach Based on Geometry and Color Features	5
Damage Tolerance Assessment of Laser Clad Repairs of Coarse Grain Ti-6Al-4V	5