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Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis

Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis is a research topic within Mechanics of Materials. Science Explorer counts 31k 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 finite element simulation, experimental validation, and various aspects of fretting wear, including wear mechanisms, high-temperature sliding wear, fretting fatigue, surface modification technologies, oxidational wear, corrosion fatigue, and wire rope behavior.

  • Fretting Wear
  • Finite Element Simulation
  • Experimental Validation
  • Wear Mechanisms
  • High-Temperature Sliding Wear
  • Fretting Fatigue
  • Surface Modification Technologies
  • Oxidational Wear
  • Corrosion Fatigue
  • Wire Rope
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis

Which countries lead Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.7k and 291 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.7k works
  2. 2 United States 291 works
  3. 3 India 239 works
  4. 4 Germany 218 works
  5. 5 Japan 187 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 153 works
  7. 7 France 133 works
  8. 8 Italy 111 works
  9. 9 Russia 89 works
  10. 10 Brazil 84 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: 64.0%United States: 7.0%India: 5.7%Germany: 5.2%6 others listed: 18.1%64%largest
China2,678 · 64.0%United States291 · 7.0%India239 · 5.7%Germany218 · 5.2%6 others listed757 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Southwest Jiaotong University publishes the most Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research, followed by Tongji University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 157 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 58 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  4. 4 Chongqing UniversityChina 48 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 46 works
  6. 6 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 46 works
  7. 7 Tianjin UniversityChina 45 works
  8. 8 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 43 works
  9. 9 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 40 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k citations
  5. 5 Douglas Scott Canada 172k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Michael J. Mack United States 154k citations
  8. 8 K. Satô France 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 Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis?

The most cited paper in Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis is "A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks" (JAMES R. RICE, 1968), with 8,399 citations. Next come "Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats" (4,612) and "Singular behaviour at the end of a tensile crack in a hardening material" (2,900).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks JAMES R. RICE · Journal of Applied Mechanics Jun 1968 8,399
2 Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats William R. Jeck, Jessica A. Sorrentino, Kai You Wang et al. · RNA Open access 18 Dec 2012 4,612
3 Singular behaviour at the end of a tensile crack in a hardening material John Woodside Hutchinson · Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 1968 2,900
4 Adhesion of spheres: The JKR-DMT transition using a dugdale model Daniel Maugis · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Apr 1992 2,068
5 Slightly curved or kinked cracks Benjamin M. Cotterell, JAMES R. RICE · International Journal of Fracture Apr 1980 1,874
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Where is Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research done?

The largest centres of Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chengdu (China), Shanghai (China) and Xi'an (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 465 works
  2. 2 ChengduChina 226 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 199 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 163 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 120 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 96 works
  7. 7 ChongqingChina 96 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 77 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 73 works
  10. 10 DalianChina 70 works
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Where is the best place to study Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest Jiaotong University, Northeastern University and Shanghai 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 21.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai UniversityNortheastern Univers…Hong Kong Polytechni…Southwest Jiaotong U…
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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
1Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 82.925.7%44.4×157 +45.2%
2Northeastern UniversityChina 72.333.1%8.7×36 +167.5%
3Shanghai UniversityChina 66.035.8%5.1×17 +39.0%
4Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 60.526.2%3.8×15 +50.7%
5Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 59.823.5%7.7×40 +8.0%
6Chongqing UniversityChina 57.016.5%9.6×48 +11.0%
7Tianjin UniversityChina 55.415.6%8.0×45 +39.0%
8Tongji UniversityChina 55.112.8%8.3×58 +25.3%
9Dalian University of TechnologyChina 54.313.3%10.4×46 +33.4%
10Southeast UniversityChina 53.415.5%5.0×34 +15.4%

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 stress and fatigue analysis, country by country

Is Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis.

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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 stress and fatigue analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis 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 stress and fatigue analysis9.9% 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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