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Researcher · Purdue University West Lafayette · United States

C. T. Sun

C. T. Sun publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Mechanical Behavior of Composites, Fatigue and fracture mechanics and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization.

ORCID 0000-0001-6623-8175 OpenAlex
World rank
#231,814
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#91,722
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
216
Citations per work
5.8

What does C. T. Sun research?

Mechanics of Materials: 52.1%Materials Chemistry: 12.5%Biomedical Engineering: 10.4%Civil and Structural Engineering: 8.3%other fields: 16.7%52%top field
Mechanics of Materials52.1%Materials Chemistry12.5%Biomedical Engineering10.4%Civil and Structural Engineering8.3%other fields16.7%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials52% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry12% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Civil and Structural Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Mechanical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Building and Construction4% of their works

Research topics

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

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ballistic Impact, Cohesive Zone Models, Delamination, Buckling Behavior, Fatigue Crack Closure, Finite Element Method, Fracture Toughness Testing and Functionally Graded Materials.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ballistic Impact122 topics
  2. Cohesive Zone Models81 topic
  3. Delamination81 topic
  4. Buckling Behavior72 topics
  5. Fatigue Crack Closure51 topic
  6. Finite Element Method51 topic
  7. Fracture Toughness Testing51 topic
  8. Functionally Graded Materials51 topic
  9. Dynamic Deformation41 topic
  10. Fracture41 topic
  11. High Strain Rate41 topic
  12. Meshless Methods41 topic
  13. Guided Lamb Waves31 topic
  14. Piezoelectric Impedance-Based Health Monitoring31 topic
  15. Blast Loading21 topic
  16. Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes21 topic
  17. Progressive Collapse21 topic
  18. Structural Engineering21 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 37 works and 216 citations for C. T. Sun, ranking #231,814 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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