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Noboru Kikuchi

Noboru Kikuchi publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Topology Optimization in Engineering, Composite Material Mechanics and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization.

World rank
#4,723
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,230
of 358,040
Works
61
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
31.0

What does Noboru Kikuchi research?

Civil and Structural Engineering: 23.1%Mechanics of Materials: 21.5%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 7.7%Mechanical Engineering: 7.7%other fields: 40.0%23%top field
Civil and Structural Engineering23.1%Mechanics of Materials21.5%Computational Theory and Mathematics7.7%Mechanical Engineering7.7%other fields40.0%

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 Engineering23% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics8% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Noboru Kikuchi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Finite Element Method, Level Set Method, Sensitivity Analysis, Mechanical Properties, Heterogeneous Materials, Multi-Scale, Composite Plates 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. Finite Element Method162 topics
  2. Level Set Method111 topic
  3. Sensitivity Analysis111 topic
  4. Mechanical Properties72 topics
  5. Heterogeneous Materials61 topic
  6. Multi-Scale61 topic
  7. Composite Plates51 topic
  8. Functionally Graded Materials51 topic
  9. Assembly Planning31 topic
  10. Design for Manufacture31 topic
  11. Heterogeneous31 topic
  12. Hysteresis Compensation31 topic
  13. Multiscale Methods31 topic
  14. Nanopositioning31 topic
  15. Evolutionary Algorithms21 topic
  16. Form-Finding21 topic
  17. Multiobjective Optimization21 topic
  18. Tensegrity21 topic

Where does Noboru Kikuchi work?

Noboru Kikuchi's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Michigan, United States.

How many publications and citations does Noboru Kikuchi have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 1,888 citations for Noboru Kikuchi, ranking #4,723 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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