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Noboru Kikuchi

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

World rank
#685,800
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#206,932
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
97
Citations per work
6.5

What does Noboru Kikuchi research?

Mechanics of Materials: 33.3%Civil and Structural Engineering: 16.7%Mechanical Engineering: 12.5%Computational Mechanics: 8.3%other fields: 29.2%33%top field
Mechanics of Materials33.3%Civil and Structural Engineering16.7%Mechanical Engineering12.5%Computational Mechanics8.3%other fields29.2%

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. 2Civil and Structural Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  5. 5General Materials Science4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Noboru Kikuchi's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Finite Element Method, Buckling Behavior, Vibration Analysis, Composite Plates, Functionally Graded Materials, Level Set Method, Sensitivity Analysis and Finite Element 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Finite Element Method72 topics
  2. Buckling Behavior52 topics
  3. Vibration Analysis52 topics
  4. Composite Plates41 topic
  5. Functionally Graded Materials41 topic
  6. Level Set Method31 topic
  7. Sensitivity Analysis31 topic
  8. Finite Element Methods21 topic
  9. Fluid-Structure Interaction21 topic
  10. Fracture21 topic
  11. Meshless Methods21 topic
  12. Nonlinear Dynamics22 topics
  13. Axially Moving Systems11 topic
  14. Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes11 topic
  15. Contact11 topic
  16. Fluid-Conveying Pipes11 topic
  17. Frequency Selective Surfaces11 topic
  18. Friction11 topic
  19. Metasurfaces11 topic
  20. Structural Engineering11 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 15 works and 97 citations for Noboru Kikuchi, ranking #685,800 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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