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Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis

Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis is a research topic within Civil and Structural Engineering. Science Explorer counts 8.4k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in structural engineering and materials science, including concrete and steel structures, acoustic emission testing, railway bridge assessment, geotechnical engineering, structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, and building information modelling. The papers explore advancements in construction materials, design methodologies, and evaluation techniques for ensuring the safety and durability of civil infrastructure.

  • Concrete Structures
  • Acoustic Emission
  • Railway Bridges
  • Steel Construction
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Bridge Design
  • Material Properties
  • Nondestructive Testing
  • Building Information Modelling
Research works
8.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
809
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis

Which countries lead Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research?

By volume, Poland and Germany publish the most (285 and 122 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 285 works
  2. 2 Germany 122 works
  3. 3 China 91 works
  4. 4 United States 31 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 20 works
  6. 6 Russia 20 works
  7. 7 Czechia 19 works
  8. 8 India 17 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 17 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 15 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.

Poland: 44.9%Germany: 19.1%China: 14.3%United States: 4.9%6 others listed: 16.8%45%largest
Poland285 · 44.9%Germany122 · 19.1%China91 · 14.3%United States31 · 4.9%6 others listed107 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Wrocław University of Science and Technology publishes the most Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research, followed by Silesian University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyPoland 41 works
  2. 2 Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 26 works
  3. 3 Warsaw University of TechnologyPoland 19 works
  4. 4 Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 16 works
  5. 5 AGH University of KrakowPoland 10 works
  6. 6 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 9 works
  7. 7 Gdańsk University of TechnologyPoland 9 works
  8. 8 Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 9 works
  9. 9 Bialystok University of TechnologyPoland 8 works
  10. 10 University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and GeodesyBulgaria 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis include S. Majewski, Anna Kaczmarska and Dominic P. Kwiatkowski.

  1. 1 S. Majewski France 127k citations
  2. 2 Anna Kaczmarska France 114k citations
  3. 3 Dominic P. Kwiatkowski United Kingdom 109k citations
  4. 4 John R. Anderson United States 94k citations
  5. 5 Adam Ryszard Kisiel France 72k 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 Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis?

The most cited paper in Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis is "Shear Strength of Stud Connectors in Lightweight and Normal-Weight Concrete" (Jorgen G. Ollgaard, R. G. Slutter, John W. Fisher, 1971), with 874 citations. Next come "Cold-formed steel structures" (464) and "Behaviour of short and slender concrete-filled stainless steel tubular columns" (463).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Shear Strength of Stud Connectors in Lightweight and Normal-Weight Concrete Jorgen G. Ollgaard, R. G. Slutter, John W. Fisher · Engineering Journal Open access 30 Jun 1971 874
2 Cold-formed steel structures Gregory J. Hancock · Journal of Constructional Steel Research 17 Feb 2003 464
3 Behaviour of short and slender concrete-filled stainless steel tubular columns Brian Uy, Zhong Tao, Lin‐Hai Han · Journal of Constructional Steel Research 26 Nov 2010 463
4 Identification of parameters of concrete damage plasticity constitutive model Tomasz Jankowiak, Tomasz Łodygowski · Foundations of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2005 423
5 Improved numerical integration of thick shell finite elements Stuart F. Pawsey, Ray W. Clough · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering Oct 1971 327
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Wrocław (Poland), Gliwice (Poland) and Krakow (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gliwice, Wrocław and Poznań.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 62 works
  2. 2 WrocławPoland 46 works
  3. 3 GliwicePoland 27 works
  4. 4 KrakowPoland 23 works
  5. 5 PoznańPoland 20 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 13 works
  7. 7 RegensburgGermany 12 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 11 works
  9. 9 BerlinGermany 11 works
  10. 10 GdańskPoland 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GliwicePL · 26.9 works124×
  2. WrocławPL · 46.2 works80×
  3. PoznańPL · 20.5 works27×
  4. WarsawPL · 61.6 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, AGH University of Krakow, Technische Universität Dresden and Wrocław University of Science and Technology 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%10%20%mean 4.65556%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →AGH University of Kr…Technische Universit…Silesian University …Wrocław University o…
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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
1AGH University of KrakowPoland 50.916.4%37.0×10 -75.1%
2Technische Universität DresdenGermany 48.010.2%22.7×9 +112.4%
3Wrocław University of Science and TechnologyPoland 43.61.4%346.9×41 -23.9%
4Silesian University of TechnologyPoland 40.64.0%149.7×26 -56.0%
5Gdańsk University of TechnologyPoland 25.45.9%80.3×9 -71.8%
6Warsaw University of TechnologyPoland 24.91.8%103.1×19 -66.4%
7Poznań University of TechnologyPoland 19.20.2%149.3×16 -35.9%
8Bialystok University of TechnologyPoland 7.62.0%166.2×8 -47.5%
9Rzeszów University of TechnologyPoland 1.30.0%137.5×9 -51.7%

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 Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis, country by country

Is Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0042% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis0.0034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Structural Engineering and Materials 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%Structural Engineering and Materials Analysis10.5% 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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