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Ben Thacker

Ben Thacker publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Structural Health Monitoring Techniques and Fatigue and fracture mechanics.

World rank
#710,023
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#211,850
of 358,040
Works
25
Citations
72
Citations per work
2.9

What does Ben Thacker research?

Civil and Structural Engineering: 31.0%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 24.1%Mechanics of Materials: 13.8%Building and Construction: 10.3%other fields: 20.8%31%top field
Civil and Structural Engineering31.0%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty24.1%Mechanics of Materials13.8%Building and Construction10.3%other fields20.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering31% of their works
  2. 2Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty24% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction10% of their works
  5. 5Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality10% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Thacker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Reliability Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, Reinforced Concrete, Bayesian Optimization, Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing and Vibration-based Damage Identification.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Reliability Analysis92 topics
  2. Sensitivity Analysis71 topic
  3. Uncertainty Quantification71 topic
  4. Reinforced Concrete42 topics
  5. Bayesian Optimization32 topics
  6. Fatigue Crack Closure31 topic
  7. Fracture Toughness Testing31 topic
  8. Vibration-based Damage Identification31 topic
  9. Wireless Sensors31 topic
  10. BIM21 topic
  11. Blast Loading21 topic
  12. Chloride-induced21 topic
  13. Construction21 topic
  14. Corrosion21 topic
  15. Progressive Collapse21 topic
  16. Slope Stability Analysis21 topic
  17. Spatial Variability21 topic
  18. Evolutionary Algorithms11 topic
  19. Multiobjective Optimization11 topic

Where does Ben Thacker work?

Ben Thacker's main affiliation in the publication record is Southwest Research Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ben Thacker have?

Science Explorer counts 25 works and 72 citations for Ben Thacker, ranking #710,023 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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