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Researcher · U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology · United States

Peter J. Torvik

Peter J. Torvik publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering, on topics such as Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, Vibration and Dynamic Analysis and Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities.

OpenAlex
World rank
#198,189
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#80,365
of 358,040
Works
17
Citations
466
Citations per work
27.4

What does Peter J. Torvik research?

Mechanics of Materials: 19.0%Civil and Structural Engineering: 14.3%Control and Systems Engineering: 9.5%Mechanical Engineering: 9.5%other fields: 47.7%19%top field
Mechanics of Materials19.0%Civil and Structural Engineering14.3%Control and Systems Engineering9.5%Mechanical Engineering9.5%other fields47.7%

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

  1. 1Mechanics of Materials19% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering14% of their works
  3. 3Control and Systems Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Mechanical Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics10% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics10% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter J. Torvik's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nonlinear Dynamics, Axially Moving Systems, Vibration Analysis, Vibration-based Damage Identification, Wireless Sensors, Contact, Control and Femtosecond Laser.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Nonlinear Dynamics53 topics
  2. Axially Moving Systems21 topic
  3. Vibration Analysis21 topic
  4. Vibration-based Damage Identification21 topic
  5. Wireless Sensors21 topic
  6. Contact11 topic
  7. Control11 topic
  8. Femtosecond Laser11 topic
  9. Finite Element Modeling11 topic
  10. Footbridges11 topic
  11. Friction11 topic
  12. Hydraulic Systems11 topic
  13. Laser Forming11 topic
  14. Micromachining11 topic
  15. On-Orbit Servicing11 topic
  16. Space Debris11 topic
  17. Vibration Serviceability11 topic

Where does Peter J. Torvik work?

Peter J. Torvik's main affiliation in the publication record is U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter J. Torvik have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 466 citations for Peter J. Torvik, ranking #198,189 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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