OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Mechanics of Materials is 30. 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
A hybrid algorithm of particle swarm optimization and finite element method to identify local mesoscopic damage of concrete-like materials	90
The bending-buckling coupled model for blistering behavior in anti-corrosion coatings	78
Stress concentration around a pressurized elliptical hole in a soft elastic solid: Modified results and nonlinear effects	67
Machine learning-based constitutive parameter identification for crystal plasticity models	61
Force-induced length-change effect of macromolecular chains undergoing mechanochemical coupling and mechanical behaviors under uniaxial tension in soft hydrogels	50
Relaxation and creep responses of biological materials under spherical indentation considering surface tension	49
A molecular-derived constitutive model of viscoelasticity based on chain statistical mechanics of polymers during cure	48
Unusual temperature dependent core properties of <110> superdislocation in Ni3Al by ab initio results-informed fully discrete Peierls-Nabarro model	48
Identification, uncertainty quantification and validation of orthotropic material properties for additively manufactured polymers	47
Effects of primary α grains on rolling reductions and deformation modes in Zr alloys: Experiments and modeling	47
Constitutive equations for thermo-elasto-plastic metallic materials undergoing large temperature variations	47
Local–global DVC analyses confirm theoretical predictions for deformation and damage onset in torsion of pantographic metamaterial	44
On the strength-ductility modifications in pure copper after severe plastic deformation	42
A tensorial energy-release-rate based anisotropic damage-plasticity model for concrete	41
Experimental investigation of the behaviour of a simulant material for plastic-bonded explosives and modelling of the effectivity and damage induced anisotropy	41
Shock wave characteristics and spalling behavior of non-coherent Cu/Nb multilayers	41
Modeling the thermo-responsive behaviors of polydomain and monodomain nematic liquid crystal elastomers	40
Materials mechanics beyond the Horizon – Alan Needleman at 80	39
Editorial Board	38
A novel approach for accurate development of the incremental plastic multiplier and consistent tangent operator in thermo-elasto-plastic modeling of materials	37
The elastic properties of fiber-reinforced materials with imperfect interfacial bondings: Analytical approximations versus full-field simulations	37
Electromechanical properties of different phases in ferroelectric crystals regulated by variously oriented electric fields	34
Peridynamic investigation of dynamic damage behaviors of PBX confined in spherical steel shells	33
Determine the unique constitutive properties of elastoplastic materials from their plastic zone evolution under nanoindentation	33
Propagation and scattering of SH waves in non-homogeneous unsaturated half-space with a circular cavity	33

A novel metamaterial with instantaneously sign-switchable coefficient of thermal expansion and Poisson's ratio	33
Inverse-designed growth-based cellular metamaterials	32
Viscoelastic mechanical behavior of periodontal ligament: Creep and relaxation hyper-viscoelastic constitutive models	32
The viscoelastic behavior of lignin: Quantification through nanoindentation relaxation testing on hot-pressed technical lignin samples from various origins	31
Identification for elastoplastic constitutive parameters of 316L stainless steel lattice structures using finite element model updating and integrated digital image correlation	30
Numerical-experimental approach to identify the effect of relative humidity on the material parameters of a rate-dependent damage model for polyamide 66	30
Independent parameters of orthotropic linear transformation-based yield functions	30