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High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior

High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the dynamic material behavior of various metals and alloys under extreme loading conditions, including high strain rates, ballistic impact, adiabatic shear localization, and projectile penetration. The research involves experimental techniques such as Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar testing and numerical modeling to understand the constitutive behavior, microstructural evolution, and thermomechanical response of materials subjected to dynamic deformation.

  • Dynamic Deformation
  • High Strain Rate
  • Ballistic Impact
  • Adiabatic Shear Localization
  • Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar
  • Constitutive Modeling
  • Projectile Penetration
  • Fragmentation
  • Microstructural Evolution
  • Thermomechanical Response
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior

Which countries lead High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 590 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 590 works
  3. 3 India 446 works
  4. 4 Russia 300 works
  5. 5 Japan 170 works
  6. 6 France 156 works
  7. 7 Germany 152 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 145 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 108 works
  10. 10 South Korea 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: 59.2%United States: 11.1%India: 8.4%Russia: 5.6%6 others listed: 15.7%59%largest
China3,145 · 59.2%United States590 · 11.1%India446 · 8.4%Russia300 · 5.6%6 others listed837 · 15.7%

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

Which institutions lead High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing University of Science and Technology publishes the most High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research, followed by Beijing Institute of Technology and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 190 works
  2. 2 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 182 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 109 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 87 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 83 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 67 works
  7. 7 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 60 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 56 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 53 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 50 works

Who are the leading researchers in High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior include Yury G. Gogotsi, Xiaogang Wang and Rodney S. Ruoff.

  1. 1 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Rodney S. Ruoff United States 231k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  7. 7 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior?

The most cited paper in High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior is "Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures" (Gordon R. Johnson, William H. Cook, 1985), with 6,353 citations. Next come "Analysis of Stresses and Strains Near the End of a Crack Traversing a Plate" (5,601) and "On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗" (4,880).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures Gordon R. Johnson, William H. Cook · Engineering Fracture Mechanics 1985 6,353
2 Analysis of Stresses and Strains Near the End of a Crack Traversing a Plate G. R. Irwin · Journal of Applied Mechanics Sep 1957 5,601
3 On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields∗ JAMES R. RICE, Dennis M. Tracey · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids Jun 1969 4,880
4 On the Crack Extension in Plates Under Plane Loading and Transverse Shear F. Erdoğan, G. C. Sih · Journal of Basic Engineering Dec 1963 4,863
5 The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile Ian Naismith Sneddon · International Journal of Engineering Science May 1965 4,366
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Where is High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research done?

The largest centres of High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Xi'an (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Los Alamos and Mianyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 631 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 368 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 251 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 160 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 147 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 120 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 108 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 93 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 85 works
  10. 10 TaiyuanChina 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 22.4 works84×
  2. Los AlamosUS · 36.2 works22×
  3. MianyangCN · 63.7 works18×
  4. LivermoreUS · 22.9 works15×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, China University of Mining and Technology and University of Technology Sydney 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%20%40%mean 21.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Techno…Central South Univer…China University of …Beijing Institute of…
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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
1Central South UniversityChina 65.424.7%5.0×53 +38.7%
2China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 63.721.8%13.7×60 +34.4%
3University of Technology SydneyAustralia 63.738.2%3.4×8 +47.8%
4Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 63.212.0%27.8×182 +27.9%
5Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 59.57.9%42.0×190 +118.5%
6Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 59.015.3%13.1×83 +33.4%
7Southeast UniversityChina 57.320.7%4.1×34 +105.5%
8Beijing University of TechnologyChina 55.523.3%7.4×29 +94.2%
9Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing JabalpurIndia 54.936.2%30.0×9 -
10Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndia 54.314.2%10.8×31 +88.7%

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 High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior, country by country

Is High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior.

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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 High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

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Fractional works of High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior 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%High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior9.8% 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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