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Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis

Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 modeling, risk analysis, and reliability assessment of corrosion in steel pipelines, particularly addressing pitting corrosion. It covers topics such as the effect of corrosion on pipeline integrity, reliability assessment methodology for pipelines with active corrosion defects, and the development of new models for predicting corrosion damage. The research also delves into the impact of corrosion on offshore and marine steel structures, as well as the use of advanced techniques such as finite element analysis and fuzzy inference systems for pipeline risk assessment.

  • Corrosion
  • Pipeline
  • Risk Analysis
  • Reliability Assessment
  • Pitting Corrosion
  • Steel Structures
  • Offshore
  • Failure Pressure
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Natural Gas
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis

Which countries lead Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 347 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 347 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 154 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 150 works
  5. 5 India 130 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 112 works
  7. 7 South Korea 107 works
  8. 8 Canada 104 works
  9. 9 Japan 103 works
  10. 10 Brazil 102 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: 59.0%United States: 10.8%United Kingdom: 4.8%Indonesia: 4.7%6 others listed: 20.6%59%largest
China1,886 · 59.0%United States347 · 10.8%United Kingdom154 · 4.8%Indonesia150 · 4.7%6 others listed658 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, China University of Petroleum, Beijing publishes the most Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research, followed by Wuhan University of Technology and Southwest Petroleum University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 58 works
  2. 2 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 58 works
  3. 3 Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 54 works
  4. 4 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 42 works
  5. 5 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 42 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 42 works
  7. 7 China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 39 works
  8. 8 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 39 works
  9. 9 Tianjin UniversityChina 35 works
  10. 10 China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis include Wei Huang, Lei Jiang and Hua Zhang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  4. 4 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k 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 Integrity and Reliability Analysis?

The most cited paper in Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis is "Family of crack-tip fields characterized by a triaxiality parameter—II. Fracture applications" (Noel P. O’Dowd, C. FONG SHIH, 1992), with 862 citations. Next come "Corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation" (711) and "Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review" (698).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation Lekan Taofeek Popoola, Alhaji Shehu Grema, G. K. Latinwo et al. · International Journal of Industrial Chemistry 2013 711
3 Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review Felice Rubino, Antonio Nisticò, Fausto Tucci et al. · Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Open access 6 Jan 2020 698
4 An approximate power prediction method Jan Holtrop, G.G.J. Mennen · International Shipbuilding Progress Jul 1982 679
5 The weighted OWA operator Vicenç Torra · International Journal of Intelligent Systems Open access Feb 1997 607
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Where is Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Stavanger and Daqing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 340 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 165 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 139 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 94 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 93 works
  6. 6 DalianChina 91 works
  7. 7 QingdaoChina 86 works
  8. 8 HarbinChina 80 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 71 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. StavangerNO · 22.0 works27×
  2. DaqingCN · 20.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Lisbon and Shanghai Ocean 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 21.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shanghai Ocean Unive…Hong Kong Polytechni…Dalian Maritime Univ…University of Lisbon
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.028.5%4.9×16 +106.1%
2University of LisbonPortugal 70.022.0%8.6×26 -28.8%
3Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 68.735.6%20.8×18 +239.2%
4Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 68.522.1%28.1×39 +35.0%
5Aalto UniversityFinland 67.328.9%7.9×9 +24.7%
6China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 66.615.0%39.1×58 +12.4%
7Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 65.613.3%19.0×58 +12.2%
8China University of Petroleum, East ChinaChina 65.316.0%22.1×40 +45.0%
9Southwest Petroleum UniversityChina 63.912.9%44.4×54 +81.1%
10Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 63.422.0%4.5×28 +153.3%

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 Integrity and Reliability Analysis, country by country

Is Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Structural Integrity and Reliability 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 Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Structural Integrity and Reliability 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 Integrity and Reliability Analysis10.1% 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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