Most cited papers in Material Properties and Failure Mechanisms
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).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 328 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 6 | Dislocations in wave trains John Frederick Nye, Michael Berry · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 22 Jan 1974 | 2,165 |
| 7 | A Continuum Model for Void Nucleation by Inclusion Debonding Alan Needleman · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1987 | 2,150 |
| 8 | The structure of high-angle grain boundaries D. G. Brandon · Acta Metallurgica | Nov 1966 | 2,041 |
| 9 | Fractal character of fracture surfaces of metals Benoît B. Mandelbrot, D. E. Passoja, Alvin J. Paullay · Nature | Apr 1984 | 1,924 |
| 10 | Fundamental Problems in Viscoplasticity P. Perzyna · Advances in applied mechanics | 1966 | 1,893 |
| 11 | Wave motion in elastic solids D.P. Morgan · Ultrasonics | Sep 1975 | 1,703 |
| 12 | The Elastic Moduli of Heterogeneous Materials Zvi Hashin · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Mar 1962 | 1,678 |
| 13 | Dislocations and Cracks in Anisotropic Elasticity A. N. Stroh · Philosophical magazine | Jun 1958 | 1,612 |
| 14 | The elastic field outside an ellipsoidal inclusion John Douglas Eshelby · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 27 Oct 1959 | 1,607 |
| 15 | A new model for hydrogen-assisted cracking (hydrogen “embrittlement”) C. D. Beachem · Metallurgical Transactions | Feb 1972 | 1,505 |
| 16 | A local criterion for cleavage fracture of a nuclear pressure vessel steel F. M. Beremin, André Pineau, F. Mudry et al. · Metallurgical Transactions A | Nov 1983 | 1,235 |
| 17 | Plane Problems of Cracks in Dissimilar Media JAMES R. RICE, G. C. Sih · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Jun 1965 | 1,223 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Some remarks on elastic crack-tip stress fields JAMES R. RICE · International Journal of Solids and Structures | Jun 1972 | 1,035 |
| 20 | The spread of plastic yield from a notch Bruce Alexander Bilby, Alan Howard Cottrell, K. H. Swinden · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 19 Mar 1963 | 942 |
| 21 | Family of crack-tip fields characterized by a triaxiality parameter—II. Fracture applications Noel P. O’Dowd, C. FONG SHIH · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Jul 1992 | 862 |
| 22 | Influence of non-singular stress terms and specimen geometry on small-scale yielding at crack tips in elastic-plastic materials Stefan Larsson, A. J. Carlsson · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | Jul 1973 | 844 |
| 23 | Void growth and coalescence in porous plastic solids Joel Koplik, Alan Needleman · International Journal of Solids and Structures | 1988 | 841 |
| 24 | Stress Corrosion Cracking and Hydrogen Embrittlement of Iron Base Alloys R. W. Stahle, J. Hochmann, R. Daniel McCright et al. · Journal of The Electrochemical Society | May 1979 | 760 |
| 25 | Environmentally assisted cracking: Overview of evidence for an adsorption-induced localised-slip process S.P. Lynch · Acta Metallurgica | Oct 1988 | 749 |
| 26 | A theory of the fracture of metals A. N. Stroh · Advances In Physics | Oct 1957 | 696 |
| 27 | Effect of ageing on bitumen chemistry and rheology Xiaohu Lu, Ulf M. Isacsson · Construction and Building Materials | Feb 2002 | 665 |
| 28 | On the finite element method in linear fracture mechanics Siu-Kee Chan, I. S. Tuba, W.K. Wilson · Engineering Fracture Mechanics | Jul 1970 | 656 |
| 29 | The deformation of metals under small stresses during phase transformations Geoffrey Wilson Greenwood, Roy H. Johnson · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 19 Jan 1965 | 637 |
| 30 | Prevention of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Steels H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia · ISIJ International | 2016 | 629 |
| 31 | Mechanics of Fracture J. F. Knott | 1983 | 629 |
| 32 | Triangular quarter‐point elements as elastic and perfectly‐plastic crack tip elements Roshdy S. Barsoum · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering | 1977 | 616 |
| 33 | Stress analysis of polycrystalline thin films and surface regions by X-ray diffraction U. Welzel, J. Ligot, Peter Lamparter et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography | 19 Jan 2005 | 607 |
| 34 | Review of limit loads of structures containing defects A.G. Miller · International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping | 1988 | 601 |
| 35 | The spall strength of condensed matter Dennis E. Grady · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | 1988 | 588 |
| 36 | A Definition of Stable Inelastic Material Daniel C. Drucker · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Mar 1959 | 574 |
| 37 | Fatigue crack propagation—an analysis Brian Tomkins · Philosophical magazine | Nov 1968 | 562 |
| 38 | On the structure of tilt grain boundaries in cubic metals I. Symmetrical tilt boundaries Adrian Peter Sutton, Vaclav VITEK · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 17 Mar 1983 | 552 |
| 39 | Neural-network methods for boundary value problems with irregular boundaries I.E. Lagaris, Aristidis C. Likas, Dimitris G. Papageorgiou · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks | 2000 | 543 |
| 40 | Fracture mechanics of piezoelectric materials Vladimir Z. Parton · Acta Astronautica | Sep 1976 | 525 |
| 41 | Fracture Behavior of Polymers Günther Hartwig | 1994 | 521 |
| 42 | Ductile and brittle crystals Anthony E. Kelly, William R. Tyson, Alan Howard Cottrell · Philosophical magazine | Mar 1967 | 516 |
| 43 | A phase field formulation for hydrogen assisted cracking Emilio Martínez‐Pañeda, Alireza Golahmar, Christian F. Niordson · Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering | 25 Jul 2018 | 510 |
| 44 | General “2S2P1D” Model and Relation Between the Linear Viscoelastic Behaviours of Bituminous Binders and Mixes François Olard, Hervé Di Benedetto · Road Materials and Pavement Design | 2003 | 488 |
| 45 | The fracture of epoxy- and elastomer-modified epoxy polymers in bulk and as adhesives WILLARD D. BASCOM, Robert L. Cottington, Robert Jones et al. · Journal of Applied Polymer Science | Sep 1975 | 483 |
| 46 | A crystallographic mechanism for fatigue crack propagation through grain boundaries Tianrui Zhai, Angus J. Wilkinson, John William. Martin · Acta Materialia | Dec 2000 | 473 |
| 47 | Interaction of electrons with lattice vibrations H. Fröhlich · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 5 Dec 1952 | 471 |
| 48 | Scaling laws and renormalization groups for strength and toughness of disordered materials Alberto Carpinteri · International Journal of Solids and Structures | Feb 1994 | 469 |
| 49 | Brittle fracture of solids with arbitrary cracks R. V. Goldstein, Rafael L. Salganik · International Journal of Fracture | Dec 1974 | 464 |
| 50 | Hydrogen related degradation in pipeline steel: A review Enyinnaya George Ohaeri, Ubong Eduok, Jerzy A. Szpunar · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 6 Jul 2018 | 459 |
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