International Journal of Fracture

Papers
(The H4-Index of International Journal of Fracture is 15. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhanced resistance of mode II fracture by nonlocal interactions in 2D locally resonant elastic wave metamaterials40
Fracture toughness characterization of 3D-printed advanced structured specimens by digital image correlation37
Transient heat conduction in the cracked medium by Guyer–Krumhansl model37
Simulation of dynamic brittle and quasi-brittle fracture: a revisited local damage approach35
Modelling of ductile fracture considering the effect of stress triaxiality and the energy partition theory in thin high-strength steel sheets33
Influence of self-weight on size effect of quasi-brittle materials: generalized analytical formulation and application to the failure of irregular masonry arches32
Investigation on the dynamic fracture behavior of A508-III steel based on Johnson–Cook model32
Adaptive method for phase-field fracture using a volume weighted Quickselect algorithm26
Improved cohesive zone model: integrating strain rate, plastic strain, variable damping, and enhanced constitutive law for fracture propagation24
Study on the whole dynamical fracture process of sandstone samples20
Isogeometric multilayer thin-shell analysis of failure in composite structures with hygrothermal effects20
Crack growth behavior of U71MnG rail steel under overload conditions described using a dislocation correction model18
Less is more: removing a single bond increases the toughness of elastic networks17
Incremental closure method to estimate changes in contact stress distributions for partially closed fatigue cracks in mode I loading17
Interaction of crack and hole: effects on crack trajectory, crack driving force and fracture toughness16
Energy release rate of a mode-I crack in pure shear specimens subjected to large deformation15
Revisiting facet nucleation under mixed mode I + III loading with T-stress and mode-dependent fracture properties15
Gradient damage model for ductile fracture introducing degradation of damage hardening modulus: implementation and experimental investigations15
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