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Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms

Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms is a research topic within Materials Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 degradation of materials, particularly steel, in gas pipelines due to factors such as corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, and long-term operational effects. The research covers aspects of fracture mechanics, mechanical properties, and the impact of various environmental and operational conditions on the integrity of gas pipeline materials.

  • Gas Pipeline
  • Material Degradation
  • Steel
  • Corrosion
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Hydrogen Embrittlement
  • Operational Degradation
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Long-Term Operation
  • Pipeline Steels
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms

Which countries lead Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (936 and 644 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 936 works
  2. 2 China 644 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 397 works
  4. 4 United States 197 works
  5. 5 Japan 114 works
  6. 6 India 93 works
  7. 7 Poland 70 works
  8. 8 Germany 68 works
  9. 9 France 52 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 49 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: 35.7%China: 24.6%Ukraine: 15.1%United States: 7.5%6 others listed: 17.0%36%largest
Russia936 · 35.7%China644 · 24.6%Ukraine397 · 15.1%United States197 · 7.5%6 others listed446 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and University of Science and Technology Beijing.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 195 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 143 works
  3. 3 University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 31 works
  4. 4 Ufa State Petroleum Technological UniversityRussia 30 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 26 works
  7. 7 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 20 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 20 works
  9. 9 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 18 works
  10. 10 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms include Zhong Lin Wang, Han Zhang and Michele Parrinello.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  3. 3 Michele Parrinello Switzerland 153k 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 Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms?

The most cited paper in Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms is "The determination of the elastic field of an ellipsoidal inclusion, and related problems" (John Douglas Eshelby, 1957), with 13,025 citations. Next come "Initial reports of the deep sea drilling project" (3,996) and "Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials" (3,670).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The determination of the elastic field of an ellipsoidal inclusion, and related problems John Douglas Eshelby · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences Open access 20 Aug 1957 13,025
2 Initial reports of the deep sea drilling project Roland E. von Huene · Marine Geology Feb 1971 3,996
3 Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of Engineering Materials Richard W. Hertzberg, Frank E. Hauser · Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology Open access 1977 3,670
4 On the Stress Distribution at the Base of a Stationary Crack Malcolm L. Williams · Journal of Applied Mechanics Mar 1957 3,403
5 Semiempirical, Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals Murray S. Daw, Michael I. Baskes · Physical Review Letters 25 Apr 1983 2,705
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research done?

The largest centres of Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Beijing (China) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Dnipro and Ufa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 275 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 155 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 144 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 119 works
  5. 5 LvivUkraine 63 works
  6. 6 YekaterinburgRussia 53 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  8. 8 KharkivUkraine 42 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 42 works
  10. 10 DniproUkraine 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TomskRU · 21.7 works157×
  2. DniproUA · 39.1 works37×
  3. UfaRU · 36.3 works29×
  4. LvivUA · 62.9 works28×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Southwest Petroleum University and China University of Petroleum, East China 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 24.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Northeastern Univers…Southwest Petroleum …University of Scienc…China University 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
1University of Science and Technology BeijingChina 87.526.4%13.9×31 +216.7%
2Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 72.730.5%15.3×14 +319.0%
3China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 71.724.9%11.4×16 +203.8%
4Northeastern UniversityChina 68.733.1%4.9×13 +316.3%
5Tianjin UniversityChina 64.332.3%3.2×11 +173.9%
6Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 60.330.0%4.3×10 +120.5%
7Weatherford CollegeUnited States 60.19.4%7.0×27 +25.9%
8China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 55.520.8%9.0×10 +38.6%
9Tashkent State Transport UniversityUzbekistan 53.315.8%79.2×14 +544.4%
10Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 49.617.7%87.3×14 +3.8%

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 Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms, country by country

Is Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms 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%Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms10.2% 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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