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Researcher · Global Engineering and Materials (United States) · United States

Jim Lua

Jim Lua publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Mechanical Behavior of Composites, Fatigue and fracture mechanics and Numerical methods in engineering.

ORCID 0000-0001-5775-7133 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,912,035
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#840,010
of 1,627,098
Works
134
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
12.0
h-index
21
i10-index 32Top 14% in Mechanics of Materials
Jim Lua

What does Jim Lua research?

Jim Lua's work is mostly in Engineering (80%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 113 works · 84.3% of their workEngineering: 107 works · 79.7% of their workMechanics of Materials: 62 works · 45.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 28 works · 20.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 11 works · 8.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 3 works · 2.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 2.3% of their workMaterials Science: 6 works · 4.6% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 6 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJim Lua134works
Physical Sciences84%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering10779.7%
    2. Materials Science64.6%
  2. Everything else2115.7%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials46% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering21% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jim Lua's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ballistic Impact, Cohesive Zone Models, Delamination, Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing, Mechanical Properties, Fracture and Meshless Methods.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ballistic Impact832 topics
  2. Cohesive Zone Models721 topic
  3. Delamination721 topic
  4. Fatigue Crack Closure421 topic
  5. Fracture Toughness Testing421 topic
  6. Mechanical Properties242 topics
  7. Fracture231 topic
  8. Meshless Methods231 topic
  9. Epoxy Resins131 topic
  10. Polybenzoxazines131 topic
  11. Blast Loading111 topic
  12. Dynamic Deformation111 topic
  13. Finite Element Method111 topic
  14. Functionally Graded Materials111 topic
  15. High Strain Rate111 topic
  16. Progressive Collapse111 topic
  17. Ductile Fracture101 topic
  18. Sheet Metal Forming101 topic

Where does Jim Lua work?

Jim Lua's main affiliation in the publication record is Global Engineering and Materials (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Jim Lua have?

OpenAlex counts 134 works and 1,604 citations for Jim Lua, an h-index of 21, ranking #2,912,035 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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