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Willie du Preez

Willie du Preez publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry, on topics such as Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies and Technology Assessment and Management.

World rank
#1,599,857
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#5,445
of 5,570
Works
17
Citations
17
Citations per work
1.0

What does Willie du Preez research?

Mechanical Engineering: 30.8%Automotive Engineering: 15.4%Materials Chemistry: 15.4%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 11.5%other fields: 26.9%31%top field
Mechanical Engineering30.8%Automotive Engineering15.4%Materials Chemistry15.4%Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality11.5%other fields26.9%

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

  1. 1Mechanical Engineering31% of their works
  2. 2Automotive Engineering15% of their works
  3. 3Materials Chemistry15% of their works
  4. 4Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality12% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Willie du Preez's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical Properties, Metallic Components, Selective Laser Melting, Sustainability, 3D Printing, Materials and Biomedical Applications.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Additive Manufacturing102 topics
  2. Mechanical Properties92 topics
  3. Metallic Components61 topic
  4. Selective Laser Melting61 topic
  5. Sustainability52 topics
  6. 3D Printing41 topic
  7. Materials41 topic
  8. Biomedical Applications31 topic
  9. System Maturity31 topic
  10. Technology Readiness Levels31 topic
  11. Titanium Alloys31 topic
  12. Atom Probe Tomography11 topic
  13. Biomaterials11 topic
  14. Digital Twin11 topic
  15. Metallurgy11 topic
  16. Scaffolds11 topic
  17. Smart Manufacturing11 topic
  18. Thermochemical11 topic
  19. Three-Dimensional Analysis11 topic

Where does Willie du Preez work?

Willie du Preez's main affiliation in the publication record is Central University of Technology, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Willie du Preez have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 17 citations for Willie du Preez, ranking #1,599,857 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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