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Fire effects on concrete materials

Fire effects on concrete materials is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the behavior of concrete and steel structures at high temperatures, particularly in the context of fire resistance, spalling prevention, and mechanical properties. It explores the effects of elevated temperatures on concrete, including its microstructure and thermal properties, as well as the use of fiber reinforcement to enhance performance.

  • High-Temperature
  • Concrete
  • Steel Structures
  • Fire Resistance
  • Spalling Prevention
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Elevated Temperatures
  • Fiber Reinforcement
  • Microstructure
  • Thermal Properties
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fire effects on concrete materials

Which countries lead Fire effects on concrete materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 341 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 341 works
  3. 3 United States 233 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 147 works
  5. 5 Russia 137 works
  6. 6 Brazil 114 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 114 works
  8. 8 Iran 111 works
  9. 9 Australia 109 works
  10. 10 Iraq 106 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.

China: 57.6%India: 10.2%United States: 7.0%United Kingdom: 4.4%6 others listed: 20.7%58%largest
China1,916 · 57.6%India341 · 10.2%United States233 · 7.0%United Kingdom147 · 4.4%6 others listed691 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Fire effects on concrete materials research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tongji University publishes the most Fire effects on concrete materials research, followed by Chongqing University and Southeast University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tongji UniversityChina 85 works
  2. 2 Chongqing UniversityChina 61 works
  3. 3 Southeast UniversityChina 60 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 50 works
  5. 5 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 41 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 41 works
  7. 7 Xi'an University of Architecture and TechnologyChina 39 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 36 works
  9. 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 34 works
  10. 10 Central South UniversityChina 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fire effects on concrete materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fire effects on concrete materials include Kai You Wang, Huan Liu and K. Kawagoe.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  3. 3 K. Kawagoe Israel 126k citations
  4. 4 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  5. 5 Robert O. Ritchie United States 100k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Fire effects on concrete materials?

The most cited paper in Fire effects on concrete materials is "Performance of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubes under pure torsion" (Lin‐Hai Han, Guo-Huang Yao, Zhong Tao, 2007), with 1,386 citations. Next come "Finite element modelling of concrete-filled steel stub columns under axial compression" (1,293) and "Characteristics of basalt fiber as a strengthening material for concrete structures" (1,208).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Performance of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubes under pure torsion Lin‐Hai Han, Guo-Huang Yao, Zhong Tao · Thin-Walled Structures 2007 1,386
2 Finite element modelling of concrete-filled steel stub columns under axial compression Zhong Tao, Zhibin Wang, Qing Xian Yu · Journal of Constructional Steel Research 25 Jul 2013 1,293
3 Characteristics of basalt fiber as a strengthening material for concrete structures Jongsung Sim, Cheolwoo Park, Do Young Moon · Composites Part B Engineering 2005 1,208
4 Effects of defects, inclusions and inhomogeneities on fatigue strength Yukitaka MURAKAMI, Masahiro Endo · International Journal of Fatigue Apr 1994 1,099
5 The use of thermal analysis in assessing the effect of temperature on a cement paste Lucia Alarcon-Ruiz, Gérard Platret, E Massieu et al. · Cement and Concrete Research 9 Feb 2005 1,072
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fire effects on concrete materials research done?

The largest centres of Fire effects on concrete materials research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xuzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 255 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 158 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 141 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 107 works
  5. 5 ChongqingChina 87 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 77 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 63 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 61 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 60 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. XuzhouCN · 44.8 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fire effects on concrete materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fire effects on concrete materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chongqing University and Nanyang Technological 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%10%20%30%mean 19.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nanyang Technologica…Hong Kong Polytechni…Chongqing UniversityTongji University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 85.025.3%11.3×41 +34.7%
2Chongqing UniversityChina 78.022.3%13.5×61 +102.2%
3Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 72.725.8%7.1×24 -6.7%
4Tongji UniversityChina 72.014.6%13.3×85 +73.2%
5Southeast UniversityChina 69.314.9%9.7×60 +90.1%
6Beijing University of TechnologyChina 67.017.6%17.3×50 +164.3%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.521.3%5.3×36 +105.4%
8Fuzhou UniversityChina 62.515.2%10.2×24 +191.3%
9Tianjin UniversityChina 62.418.2%6.7×34 +58.3%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 61.822.2%3.1×30 +12.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Fire effects on concrete materials, country by country

Is Fire effects on concrete materials research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fire effects on concrete materials.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Fire effects on concrete materials as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Fire effects on concrete materials over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Fire effects on concrete materials9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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