Most cited papers in Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
What are the most cited papers in Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures?
The most cited paper in Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures is "Simplified Procedure for Evaluating Soil Liquefaction Potential" (H. Bolton Seed, Izzat M. Idriss, 1971), with 2,940 citations. Next come "P-SV wave propagation in heterogeneous media; velocity-stress finite-difference method" (2,834) and "Smoothed particle hydrodynamics" (2,753).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 690 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Simplified Procedure for Evaluating Soil Liquefaction Potential H. Bolton Seed, Izzat M. Idriss · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division | Sep 1971 | 2,940 |
| 2 | P-SV wave propagation in heterogeneous media; velocity-stress finite-difference method Jean Virieux · Geophysics | Apr 1986 | 2,834 |
| 3 | Smoothed particle hydrodynamics Joseph J. Monaghan · Reports on Progress in Physics | 5 Jul 2005 | 2,753 |
| 4 | The strength and dilatancy of sands Malcolm D. Bolton · Géotechnique | Mar 1986 | 2,738 |
| 5 | A meshfree method based on the peridynamic model of solid mechanics Stewart A. Silling, Ebrahim Askari · Computers & Structures | 23 Mar 2005 | 2,550 |
| 6 | Peridynamic States and Constitutive Modeling Stewart A. Silling, Michael A. Epton, Olaf Weckner et al. · Journal of Elasticity | 14 Jul 2007 | 2,532 |
| 7 | A new Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) approach in computational mechanics Satya N. Atluri, Tengteng Zhu · Computational Mechanics | 24 Aug 1998 | 2,337 |
| 8 | Shear Modulus and Damping in Soils: Design Equations and Curves Bobby Ott Hardin, Vincent P. Drnevich · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division | Jul 1972 | 2,292 |
| 9 | Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils T. Leslie Youd et al. · Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering | Oct 2001 | 2,008 |
| 10 | Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH): an Overview and Recent Developments Moubin Liu, G. R. Liu · Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering | 12 Feb 2010 | 1,856 |
| 11 | Liquefaction and flow failure during earthquakes Kenji Ishihara · Géotechnique | Sep 1993 | 1,850 |
| 12 | Ground-motion characteristics estimated from spectral ratio between horizontal and vertical components of microtremor Katsuaki Konno, Tatsuo Ohmachi · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Feb 1998 | 1,733 |
| 13 | Cracking particles: a simplified meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks Timon Rabczuk, Ted Belytschko · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 18 Oct 2004 | 1,718 |
| 14 | Particle Shape Effects on Packing Density, Stiffness, and Strength: Natural and Crushed Sands Gye-Chun Cho, Jake Dodds, Juan Carlos Santamarina · Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering | 17 Apr 2006 | 1,619 |
| 15 | A Model for the Mechanics of Jointed Rock Richard E. Goodman, Robert L. Taylor, Tor L. Brekke · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division | May 1968 | 1,611 |
| 16 | Dynamics of Structures Ray W. Clough, Joseph Penzien, D. S. Griffin · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Jun 1977 | 1,588 |
| 17 | Automatic Road Crack Detection Using Random Structured Forests Yong Shi, Limeng Cui, Zhiquan Qi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | 18 May 2016 | 1,567 |
| 18 | Modification of Empirical Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relations to Include the Amplitude and Duration Effects of Rupture Directivity Paul Somerville, N. F. Smith, Robert Graves et al. · Seismological Research Letters | 1997 | 1,516 |
| 19 | The stresses around a fault or crack in dissimilar media Malcolm L. Williams · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Apr 1959 | 1,428 |
| 20 | Crushing of Soil Particles Bobby Ott Hardin · Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Oct 1985 | 1,382 |
| 21 | Seismic design and analysis of underground structures Youssef M. A. Hashash, Jeffrey J. Hook, Birger Schmidt et al. · Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology | Oct 2001 | 1,377 |
| 22 | Application of extended Mohr–Coulomb criterion to ductile fracture Yuanli Bai, Tomasz Wierzbicki · International Journal of Fracture | 10 Nov 2009 | 1,376 |
| 23 | Influence of SPT Procedures in Soil Liquefaction Resistance Evaluations H. Bolton Seed, Kohji Tokimatsu, L. F. Harder et al. · Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Dec 1985 | 1,337 |
| 24 | Crack classification in concrete based on acoustic emission Kentaro Ohno, Masayasu Ohtsu · Construction and Building Materials | 10 Jun 2010 | 1,254 |
| 25 | Instability in the evolution equations describing incompressible granular flow David G. Schaeffer · Journal of Differential Equations | 1987 | 1,251 |
| 26 | A three-dimensional large deformation meshfree method for arbitrary evolving cracks Timon Rabczuk, Ted Belytschko · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 5 Mar 2007 | 1,231 |
| 27 | Elastic Wave Velocities in Granular Soils Bobby Ott Hardin, F. E. Richart · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division | Feb 1963 | 1,194 |
| 28 | Factors of Safety and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering Julie Duncan · Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering | Apr 2000 | 1,192 |
| 29 | Diffraction of Elastic Waves and Dynamic Stress Concentrations Y.-H. Pao, C. C. Mow, Jan D. Achenbach · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Dec 1973 | 1,191 |
| 30 | Propagation of a Vertical Hydraulic Fracture R. P. Nordgren · Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal | Aug 1972 | 1,177 |
| 31 | A STUDY ON THE DURATION OF STRONG EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION Mi D. Trifunac, Arthur Brady · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) | Jun 1975 | 1,152 |
| 32 | Moduli and Damping Factors for Dynamic Analyses of Cohesionless Soils H. Bolton Seed, Robert T. Wong, I. M. Idriss et al. · Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Nov 1986 | 1,112 |
| 33 | Hyperbolic Stress-Strain Response: Cohesive Soils Robert L. Kondner · Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division | Feb 1963 | 1,054 |
| 34 | Interpretation of cone penetration tests — a unified approach Peter K. Robertson · Canadian Geotechnical Journal | Nov 2009 | 1,034 |
| 35 | A point interpolation meshless method based on radial basis functions Jianguo Wang, G. R. Liu · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 28 May 2002 | 1,022 |
| 36 | Simple Plasticity Sand Model Accounting for Fabric Change Effects Yannis F. Dafalias, Majid T. Manzari · Journal of Engineering Mechanics | 17 May 2004 | 1,020 |
| 37 | Peridynamic Theory of Solid Mechanics Stewart A. Silling, Richard B. Lehoucq · Advances in applied mechanics | 2010 | 1,006 |
| 38 | Arbitrary branched and intersecting cracks with the extended finite element method Christophe Daux, Nicolas Mo�s, John E. Dolbow et al. · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 2000 | 994 |
| 39 | Some Aspects of Effective Stress in Saturated and Partly Saturated Soils Alan W. Bishop, Geoffrey E. Blight · Géotechnique | Sep 1963 | 987 |
| 40 | Strength and mechanical behavior of short polypropylene fiber reinforced and cement stabilized clayey soil Chao‐Sheng Tang, Bin Shi, Wei Gao et al. · Geotextiles and Geomembranes | 23 Dec 2006 | 983 |
| 41 | Fundamentals of vehicle–track coupled dynamics Wanming Zhai, Kaiyun Wang, Chengbiao Cai · Vehicle System Dynamics | 3 Mar 2009 | 973 |
| 42 | Cambridge Geotechnical Centrifuge Operations A. N. Schofield · Géotechnique | Sep 1980 | 959 |
| 43 | Breakage mechanics—Part I: Theory Itai Einav · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 6 Jan 2007 | 953 |
| 44 | Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential Using Field Performance Data H. Bolton Seed, I. M. Idriss, Ignacio Arango · Journal of Geotechnical Engineering | Mar 1983 | 930 |
| 45 | SH-wave propagation in heterogeneous media; velocity-stress finite-difference method Jean Virieux · Geophysics | Nov 1984 | 923 |
| 46 | Generalization of selective integration procedures to anisotropic and nonlinear media Thomas J.R. Hughes · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | Sep 1980 | 919 |
| 47 | A new method for modelling cohesive cracks using finite elements Garth N. Wells, Lambertus Johannes Sluys · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 27 Feb 2001 | 905 |
| 48 | Non-Associated Plasticity for Soils, Concrete and Rock P. A. Vermeer | 1998 | 902 |
| 49 | Material rate dependence and mesh sensitivity in localization problems Alan Needleman · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | Mar 1988 | 900 |
| 50 | Liquefaction Resistance of Soils from Shear-Wave Velocity Ronald D. Andrus, Kenneth H. Stokoe · Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering | Nov 2000 | 896 |
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