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Elasticity and Wave Propagation

Elasticity and Wave Propagation is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mechanics and fracture behavior of nanomaterials and composites, including the use of wavelets for solution of nonlinear PDEs, development of mechanical models, review of fracture in viscoelastic materials, and analysis of elastic wave propagation. It also explores the influence of third order elastic constants, establishment of fundamentals in nanocomposite mechanics, and the study of microdamage in these materials.

  • Nanomaterials
  • Mechanics
  • Fracture
  • Wavelets
  • Composite Materials
  • Nonlinear PDE
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Microdamage
  • Elastic Waves
  • Stress Analysis
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+16%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Elasticity and Wave Propagation research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (535 and 227 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 535 works
  2. 2 China 227 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 153 works
  4. 4 United States 133 works
  5. 5 India 127 works
  6. 6 Italy 48 works
  7. 7 Germany 46 works
  8. 8 France 40 works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 38 works
  10. 10 Egypt 36 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia: 38.7%China: 16.4%Ukraine: 11.1%United States: 9.6%6 others listed: 24.2%39%largest
Russia535 · 38.7%China227 · 16.4%Ukraine153 · 11.1%United States133 · 9.6%6 others listed334 · 24.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Elasticity and Wave Propagation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Lomonosov Moscow State University publishes the most Elasticity and Wave Propagation research, followed by Institute for Problems in Mechanics and Moscow Aviation Institute.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 54 works
  2. 2 Institute for Problems in MechanicsRussia 35 works
  3. 3 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 27 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 26 works
  5. 5 S.P. Timoshenko Institute of MechanicsUkraine 22 works
  6. 6 Institute of Problems of Mechanical EngineeringRussia 18 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 16 works
  8. 8 Southern Federal UniversityRussia 14 works
  9. 9 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 13 works
  10. 10 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 12 works

Where is Elasticity and Wave Propagation research done?

The largest centres of Elasticity and Wave Propagation research in 2022–2025 are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rostov-on-Don and Lviv.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 230 works
  2. 2 Kyiv Ukraine 73 works
  3. 3 Saint Petersburg Russia 51 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 37 works
  5. 5 Novosibirsk Russia 29 works
  6. 6 Rostov-on-Don Russia 22 works
  7. 7 Tashkent Uzbekistan 21 works
  8. 8 Lviv Ukraine 21 works
  9. 9 Kazan’ Russia 19 works
  10. 10 Xi'an China 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rostov-on-DonRU · 21.9 works24×
  2. LvivUA · 20.6 works16×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Elasticity and Wave Propagation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Elasticity and Wave Propagation?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Aviation Institute and St Petersburg University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%2.5%5%7.5%mean 1.98889%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Lomonosov Moscow State University: 54, 2.0%Moscow Aviation Institute: 27, 2.6%St Petersburg University: 13, 6.0%Bauman Moscow State Technical University: 11, 2.6%Moscow State University of Civil Engineering: 11, 3.0%Moscow State University: 12, 0.9%Southern Federal University: 14, 0.8%Tula State University: 8, 0.0%Weatherford College: 10, 0.0%St Petersburg Univer…Moscow Aviation Inst…Bauman Moscow State …Lomonosov Moscow Sta…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 66.22.0%34.1×54 +127.1%
2 Moscow Aviation InstituteRussia 61.62.6%91.9×27 +218.7%
3 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 57.06.0%14.7×13 +39.5%
4 Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityRussia 52.02.6%31.3×11 +206.9%
5 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 51.13.0%44.0×11 +152.6%
6 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 42.00.9%23.8×12 -73.4%
7 Southern Federal UniversityRussia 38.80.8%43.3×14 +20.2%
8 Tula State UniversityRussia 37.80.0%135.8×8 +160.9%
9 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 3.50.0%4.2×10 -58.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Elasticity and Wave Propagation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Elasticity and Wave Propagation.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.