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Most cited papers in Elasticity and Wave Propagation

What are the most cited papers in Elasticity and Wave Propagation?

The most cited paper in Elasticity and Wave Propagation is "Influence of Rotatory Inertia and Shear on Flexural Motions of Isotropic, Elastic Plates" (R. D. Mindlin, 1951), with 5,072 citations. Next come "Reformulation of elasticity theory for discontinuities and long-range forces" (4,276) and "Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids" (4,036).

Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 530 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
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1 Influence of Rotatory Inertia and Shear on Flexural Motions of Isotropic, Elastic Plates R. D. Mindlin · Journal of Applied Mechanics Mar 1951 5,072
2 Reformulation of elasticity theory for discontinuities and long-range forces Stewart A. Silling · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2000 4,276
3 Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids J. D. Achenbach, Stephen A. Thau · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1974 4,036
4 Mechanics of Deformation and Acoustic Propagation in Porous Media M. A. Biot · Journal of Applied Physics Open access Apr 1962 3,959
5 Piecewise polynomial, positive definite and compactly supported radial functions of minimal degree Holger Wendland · Advances in Computational Mathematics Dec 1995 3,058
6 Elastic materials with couple-stresses R. A. Toupin · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 1962 2,999
7 Large deformation isotropic elasticity – on the correlation of theory and experiment for incompressible rubberlike solids Ray W. Ogden · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences Feb 1972 2,969
8 Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity Jerrold Eldon Marsden, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Donald E. Carlson · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1984 2,704
9 Anelastic Relaxation in Crystalline Solids A. S. Nowick, B. S. Berry, J. Lawrence Katz · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Sep 1975 2,630
10 Convexity conditions and existence theorems in nonlinear elasticity John Macleod Ball · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis Dec 1976 2,451
11 Elastic Waves in Layered Media William M. Ewing, W. S. Jardetzky, Frank Press et al. · Physics Today Dec 1957 2,379
12 Nonlocal polar elastic continua A. Cemal Eringen · International Journal of Engineering Science 1972 2,187
13 On the formulation of rheological equations of state J. G. Oldroyd · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 22 Feb 1950 2,043
14 The thermodynamics of elastic materials with heat conduction and viscosity Bernard D. Coleman, Walter Noll · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis Dec 1963 2,039
15 Transmission of Elastic Waves through a Stratified Solid Medium William T. Thomson · Journal of Applied Physics Feb 1950 2,030
16 Unidirectional Invisibility Induced by P T -Symmetric Periodic Structures Zin Lin, Hamidreza Ramezani, Toni Eichelkraut et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 25 May 2011 1,931
17 Mechanics of Incremental Deformation M. A. Biot, Daniel C. Drucker · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Dec 1965 1,910
18 Stress waves in solids H. Kolsky · Journal of Sound and Vibration 1964 1,894
19 The Shear Coefficient in Timoshenko’s Beam Theory G.R. Cowper · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1966 1,894
20 Wave motion in elastic solids D.P. Morgan · Ultrasonics Sep 1975 1,703
21 The Elastic Moduli of Heterogeneous Materials Zvi Hashin · Journal of Applied Mechanics Mar 1962 1,678
22 ON UNDAMPED HEAT WAVES IN AN ELASTIC SOLID A. E. Green, P. M. Naghdi · Journal of Thermal Stresses Apr 1992 1,678
23 Fuzzy regulators and fuzzy observers: relaxed stability conditions and LMI-based designs Kazuo A. TANAKA, Takayuki Ikeda, Hua O. Wang · IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems May 1998 1,627
24 Dislocations and Cracks in Anisotropic Elasticity A. N. Stroh · Philosophical magazine Jun 1958 1,612
25 Theory of Elasticity of an Anisotropic Elastic Body S.G. Lekhnitskii, P. Fern, Julius J. Brandstatter et al. · Physics Today 1964 1,482
26 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos Sinisa Pajevic · Journal of Statistical Physics Mar 1995 1,421
27 Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials VII. Experiments on the deformation of rubber R. S. Rivlin, D. W. Saunders · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 24 Apr 1951 1,410
28 A re-examination of the basic postulates of thermomechanics Albert Edward Green, P. M. Naghdi · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 8 Feb 1991 1,384
29 On the Microstructural Origin of Certain Inelastic Models Elias C. Aifantis · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology Oct 1984 1,380
30 Creep Problems in Structural Members Yu. N. Rabotnov, Frederick A. Leckie, William Prager · Journal of Applied Mechanics Mar 1970 1,379
31 Nonlinear Oscillations Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields John M. Guckenheimer, Philip J. Holmes, Marshall Slemrod · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1984 1,291
32 Hyperbolic Thermoelasticity: A Review of Recent Literature D. S. Chandrasekharaiah · Applied Mechanics Reviews Dec 1998 1,269
33 Anisotropic Elasticity: Theory and Applications Thomas C. T. Ting, Cornelius O. Horgan · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1996 1,242
34 Thermoelastic damping in micro- and nanomechanical systems Ron Lifshitz, Michael Lee Roukes · Physical review. B, Condensed matter Open access 15 Feb 2000 1,231
35 Plane Problems of Cracks in Dissimilar Media JAMES R. RICE, G. C. Sih · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1965 1,223
36 The force on an elastic singularity John Douglas Eshelby · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 6 Nov 1951 1,198
37 Robust stabilization of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems via fuzzy control: quadratic stabilizability, H/sup ∞/ control theory, and linear matrix inequalities Kazuo Tanaka, Takayuki Ikeda, Hua O. Wang · IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 1996 1,133
38 A THEOREM ON FORCE-FREE MAGNETIC FIELDS Lodewijk Woltjer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Jun 1958 1,124
39 The Dynamic Stability of Elastic Systems Vladimir V. Bolotin, Heather L. Armstrong · American Journal of Physics Sep 1965 1,082
40 On the role of gradients in the localization of deformation and fracture Elias C. Aifantis · International Journal of Engineering Science Oct 1992 1,078
41 Some remarks on elastic crack-tip stress fields JAMES R. RICE · International Journal of Solids and Structures Jun 1972 1,035
42 Three-Dimensional Problems of the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity and Thermoelasticity V. D. Kupradze, Tengiz G. Gegelia, Mikheil Basheleishvili et al. · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Mar 1980 1,029
43 Passive energy dissipation systems in structural engineering Adam J Crewe · Structural Safety 1998 1,021
44 Stable and Random Motions in Dynamical Systems Joel Moser, Donald Gene Saari · Physics Today Mar 1975 1,008
45 The crystallography of martensite transformations I J.S Bowles, J. K. Mackenzie · Acta Metallurgica 1954 1,004
46 Sound Scattering by Solid Cylinders and Spheres James J. Faran · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Jul 1951 985
47 Constitutive Equations in Plasticity Ali S. Argon, C. Scott Hartley · Journal of Applied Mechanics Dec 1977 969
48 Stress-Deformation Relations for Isotropic Materials R. S. Rivlin, Jerald Laverne Ericksen Book chapter 1997 951
49 A general theory of an elastic-plastic continuum Anne E Green, P. M. Naghdi · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 1965 936
50 Integral Equation Methods in Potential Theory and Elastostatics M. A. Jaswon, George T. Symm, Thomas A. Cruse · Journal of Applied Mechanics Open access Dec 1978 930

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