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Patrick Ballard

Patrick Ballard publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities, Laser Material Processing Techniques and Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems.

World rank
#896,801
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#55,671
of 96,116
Works
17
Citations
68
Citations per work
4.0

What does Patrick Ballard research?

Mechanics of Materials: 26.7%Control and Systems Engineering: 16.7%Mechanical Engineering: 13.3%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 10.0%other fields: 33.3%27%top field
Mechanics of Materials26.7%Control and Systems Engineering16.7%Mechanical Engineering13.3%Computational Theory and Mathematics10.0%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials27% of their works
  2. 2Control and Systems Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering13% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics10% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics10% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Ballard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Contact, Femtosecond Laser, Finite Element Simulation, Flexible Manipulators, Fretting Wear, Friction, Micromachining and Multibody Dynamics.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Contact31 topic
  2. Femtosecond Laser31 topic
  3. Finite Element Simulation31 topic
  4. Flexible Manipulators31 topic
  5. Fretting Wear31 topic
  6. Friction31 topic
  7. Micromachining31 topic
  8. Multibody Dynamics31 topic
  9. Arterial Biomechanics11 topic
  10. Chemical Mechanical Planarization11 topic
  11. Grasping11 topic
  12. Hyperelastic Modeling11 topic
  13. Material Removal Mechanism11 topic
  14. Robot Learning11 topic
  15. Seismic11 topic
  16. Tunnel11 topic

Where does Patrick Ballard work?

Patrick Ballard's main affiliation in the publication record is Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, France.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Ballard have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 68 citations for Patrick Ballard, ranking #896,801 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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