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Researcher · Building Research Establishment · United Kingdom

V. Laws

V. Laws publishes mostly in Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Fiber-reinforced polymer composites, Mechanical Behavior of Composites and Innovative concrete reinforcement materials.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,408,676
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#171,321
of 367,258
Works
15
Citations
294
Citations per work
19.6
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 64% in Mechanics of Materials
V. Laws

What does V. Laws research?

V. Laws's work is mostly in Engineering (85%), Materials Science (5%).

Physical Sciences: 14 works · 90.3% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 85.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 26.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 works · 24.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 17.1% of their workBuilding and Construction: 2 works · 12.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 4.9% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 4.9% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 1 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 9.7% of their workTHEIR WORKV. Laws15works
Physical Sciences90%

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. Engineering1385.4%
    2. Materials Science14.9%
  2. Everything else19.7%
  1. 1Mechanics of Materials27% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering24% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering17% of their works
  4. 4Building and Construction12% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Polymers and Plastics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe V. Laws's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Mechanical Properties, Composite Materials, Finite Element Analysis, Carbon Fiber, Cohesive Zone Models, Delamination, Recycling and Fiber Reinforced Concrete.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Mechanical Properties143 topics
  2. Composite Materials92 topics
  3. Finite Element Analysis82 topics
  4. Carbon Fiber61 topic
  5. Cohesive Zone Models61 topic
  6. Delamination61 topic
  7. Recycling61 topic
  8. Fiber Reinforced Concrete51 topic
  9. Ultra-High Performance Concrete51 topic
  10. 3D Printing31 topic
  11. Concrete Extrusion31 topic
  12. Form-Finding31 topic
  13. Heterogeneous Materials31 topic
  14. Multi-Scale31 topic
  15. Tensegrity31 topic
  16. Construction21 topic
  17. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites21 topic
  18. Interconnect21 topic
  19. Through-Silicon Via21 topic

Where does V. Laws work?

V. Laws's main affiliation in the publication record is Building Research Establishment, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does V. Laws have?

OpenAlex counts 15 works and 294 citations for V. Laws, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,408,676 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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