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Researcher · Central Electricity Generating Board · United Kingdom

K. N. Akhurst

K. N. Akhurst publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Fatigue and fracture mechanics, Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals.

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World rank
#2,817,921
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#194,712
of 367,258
Works
15
Citations
290
Citations per work
19.3
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 64% in Mechanics of Materials
K. N. Akhurst

What does K. N. Akhurst research?

K. N. Akhurst's work is mostly in Materials Science (44%), Engineering (42%), Health Professions (4%).

Physical Sciences: 13 works · 86.6% of their workMaterials Science: 7 works · 44.4% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 22.2% of their workMetals and Alloys: 2 works · 13.3% of their workGeneral Materials Science: 1 works · 8.9% of their workEngineering: 6 works · 42.2% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 24.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 17.8% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 9.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 1 works · 4.4% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 4.4% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKK. N. Akhurst15works
Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences4%

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. Materials Science744.4%
    2. Engineering642.2%
  2. Everything else19.0%
    1. Health Professions14.4%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials24% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry22% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering18% of their works
  4. 4Metals and Alloys13% of their works
  5. 5General Materials Science9% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. N. Akhurst's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydrogen Embrittlement, Mechanical Properties, Corrosion, Fatigue Crack Closure, Fracture Toughness Testing, Steel, Gas Pipeline and Material Degradation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydrogen Embrittlement132 topics
  2. Mechanical Properties132 topics
  3. Corrosion92 topics
  4. Fatigue Crack Closure91 topic
  5. Fracture Toughness Testing91 topic
  6. Steel92 topics
  7. Gas Pipeline71 topic
  8. Material Degradation71 topic
  9. Passive Films61 topic
  10. Stainless Steels61 topic
  11. Microstructure52 topics
  12. Structural Properties42 topics
  13. High-Strength Steels31 topic
  14. Martensite Transformation31 topic
  15. Amorphous Alloys21 topic
  16. Bulk Metallic Glasses21 topic
  17. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics21 topic
  18. Deformation21 topic
  19. High-Temperature Alloys21 topic
  20. Pipeline21 topic
  21. Polymer Composite Materials21 topic
  22. Superalloys21 topic

Where does K. N. Akhurst work?

K. N. Akhurst's main affiliation in the publication record is Central Electricity Generating Board, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does K. N. Akhurst have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 290 citations for K. N. Akhurst, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,817,921 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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