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Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation

Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 14k 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 failure analysis, fracture mechanisms, and fatigue fractures of mechanical components such as crankshafts, connecting rods, and shafts. It covers stress analysis, root cause analysis, and corrosion failures in various industrial applications.

  • Failure Analysis
  • Fracture Mechanisms
  • Fatigue Fracture
  • Crankshaft Failure
  • Connecting Rod
  • Stress Analysis
  • Fractography
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Corrosion Failures
  • Metal Fatigue
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation

Which countries lead Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (1k and 248 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 248 works
  3. 3 United States 245 works
  4. 4 India 233 works
  5. 5 Germany 125 works
  6. 6 Russia 77 works
  7. 7 Japan 70 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 68 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 66 works
  10. 10 Brazil 50 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: 46.5%Indonesia: 11.2%United States: 11.1%India: 10.5%6 others listed: 20.7%47%largest
China1,029 · 46.5%Indonesia248 · 11.2%United States245 · 11.1%India233 · 10.5%6 others listed457 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics publishes the most Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research, followed by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China) and Northwestern Polytechnical University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 24 works
  2. 2 Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)China 23 works
  3. 3 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 22 works
  4. 4 Beihang UniversityChina 21 works
  5. 5 Chongqing UniversityChina 17 works
  6. 6 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 14 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 13 works
  8. 8 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 13 works
  9. 9 Mahindra Group (India)India 13 works
  10. 10 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation include Douglas Scott, Dierk Raabe and Hao Chen.

  1. 1 Douglas Scott Canada 172k citations
  2. 2 Dierk Raabe Germany 125k citations
  3. 3 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation?

The most cited paper in Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation is "A Hybrid Prognostics Approach for Estimating Remaining Useful Life of Rolling Element Bearings" (Biao Wang, Yaguo Lei, Naipeng Li et al., 2018), with 1,903 citations. Next come "Prognostics and health management design for rotary machinery systems—Reviews, methodology and applications" (1,587) and "Determination of layer-specific mechanical properties of human coronary arteries with nonatherosclerotic intimal thickening and related constitutive modeling" (984).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Hybrid Prognostics Approach for Estimating Remaining Useful Life of Rolling Element Bearings Biao Wang, Yaguo Lei, Naipeng Li et al. · IEEE Transactions on Reliability 14 Dec 2018 1,903
2 Prognostics and health management design for rotary machinery systems—Reviews, methodology and applications Jay K. Lee, Fangji Wu, Wenyu Zhao et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 29 Aug 2013 1,587
3 Determination of layer-specific mechanical properties of human coronary arteries with nonatherosclerotic intimal thickening and related constitutive modeling Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Gerhard Sommer, Christian T. Gasser et al. · American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 8 Jul 2005 984
4 Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Gearbox Guoqian Jiang, Haibo He, Jun Yan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Open access 14 Jun 2018 889
5 An intelligent fault diagnosis approach based on transfer learning from laboratory bearings to locomotive bearings Bin Yang, Yaguo Lei, Feng Ling Jia et al. · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 3 Jan 2019 881
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research done?

The largest centres of Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mumbai, Shenyang and Dalian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 193 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 92 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 60 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 50 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 46 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 41 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 35 works
  8. 8 MumbaiIndia 34 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 34 works
  10. 10 ChongqingChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MumbaiIN · 34.2 works4.9×
  2. ShenyangCN · 28.8 works3.6×
  3. DalianCN · 23.1 works3.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Chongqing University and Beihang 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%20%40%mean 27.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Chongqing UniversityNorthwestern Polytec…Beihang 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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 73.522.7%7.8×22 +74.1%
2Chongqing UniversityChina 73.131.9%6.2×16 +124.7%
3Beihang UniversityChina 68.819.4%7.7×21 +80.6%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 68.642.8%3.0×13 +6.0%
5Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 68.413.4%10.9×24 +88.6%
6Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 67.833.7%7.6×14 +72.1%
7Lanzhou University of TechnologyChina 58.136.0%13.2×10 +342.7%
8Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 50.524.3%3.9×11 +20.3%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 50.419.9%4.8×11 +58.0%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 50.432.6%1.4×10 +12.0%

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 Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation, country by country

Is Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation.

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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 Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation 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%Mechanical Failure Analysis and Simulation10.4% 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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