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Researcher · Purdue University West Lafayette · United States

C. T. Sun

C. T. Sun publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Building and Construction and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Mechanical Behavior of Composites and Fatigue and fracture mechanics.

ORCID 0000-0003-1365-2780 OpenAlex
World rank
#28,182
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#13,209
of 358,040
Works
70
Citations
797
Citations per work
11.4

What does C. T. Sun research?

Mechanics of Materials: 32.9%Building and Construction: 17.6%Materials Chemistry: 8.2%Civil and Structural Engineering: 7.1%other fields: 34.2%33%top field
Mechanics of Materials32.9%Building and Construction17.6%Materials Chemistry8.2%Civil and Structural Engineering7.1%other fields34.2%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials33% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction18% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry8% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering7% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe C. T. Sun's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Thermal Comfort, Ballistic Impact, Finite Element Analysis, Building Energy Consumption, Energy Simulation, Cohesive Zone Models, Delamination and Fatigue Crack Closure.

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. Thermal Comfort152 topics
  2. Ballistic Impact132 topics
  3. Finite Element Analysis122 topics
  4. Building Energy Consumption101 topic
  5. Energy Simulation101 topic
  6. Cohesive Zone Models91 topic
  7. Delamination91 topic
  8. Fatigue Crack Closure51 topic
  9. Finite Element Method51 topic
  10. Fracture Toughness Testing51 topic
  11. Functionally Graded Materials51 topic
  12. Green Roofs51 topic
  13. Urban Heat Island51 topic
  14. Dynamic Deformation41 topic
  15. High Strain Rate41 topic
  16. Construction31 topic
  17. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites31 topic
  18. Fracture31 topic
  19. Meshless Methods31 topic

Where does C. T. Sun work?

C. T. Sun's main affiliation in the publication record is Purdue University West Lafayette, United States.

How many publications and citations does C. T. Sun have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 797 citations for C. T. Sun, ranking #28,182 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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