OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Engineering Fracture Mechanics is 45. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Quantitative analysis of the effect of acidification on in-situ residual fracture openings in laboratory fracturing simulation tests	184
An investigation into the influence of variable amplitude creep-fatigue loading on plasticity-induced crack closure	141
Fatigue crack growth behavior of 42CrMo high-strength steel with tempered sorbite/bainite microstructures: Roles of grain and constituent in microstructures	124
Propagation regimes, transition times, and approximate universality in 2D hydraulic fracture propagation with fluid lag	124
Stiffness/constraint effects in analytical flaw assessment. A technical note	116
Effect of crack interaction and friction on the dynamic strength of rock-like materials with many cracks	109
Crowbar Loading-A New Test Technique to Characterize Interfacial Delamination	107
Fatigue integrity analysis of a howitzer cannon by using a fracture mechanics approach	106
A comparative study of nil-SIF-based and initial fracture toughness-based criteria for prediction of mode-I crack propagation in concrete at low temperatures	101
Meso-fracture model of ultra-high-performance fiber-reinforced geopolymer concrete pertinent to aggregate gradation and fiber spacing	92
Determination of the plastic J integral of ductile material using the XFEM with only Heaviside function and variable-node elements	90
Local creep damage effects on subsequent low temperature fatigue crack growth behaviour of thick-walled pressure vessels	79
Singularity analysis of linear hardening V-notch by asymptotic expansion coupled BEM	77
Fracture failure analysis of plastic fiber based on thermodynamic strength theory and experiment	76
Use of modified Madou–Leblond model to predict crack initiation in low alloy steel specimens with different stress states	74
Quantifying effect of overload-induced residual stress behind crack tip on fatigue crack growth	70
Development and verification of interfacial fracture energy simulation methodology for porous stacked thin films	65
Full-time domain rust expansion investigation and visual evaluation of reinforced concrete under synergistic protection	63
An experimental fracture mechanics study of the combined effect of hydrogen embrittlement and loss of constraint	63
Elastic field for a blunt crack represented by a parabolic cavity in a generally anisotropic elastic material	62
Roadway fracture mechanism investigation subjected to static and blast loading under different lateral pressure coefficients	61
Molecular investigation on temperature-dependent mechanical properties of PMMA/CNT nanocomposite	60
A validated approach for probabilistic structural integrity design code implementation	59
Energy release rate in bimaterial specimens tested in pure modes I and II	57
Modified Williams’ crack tip solution including crack face pressure	57

Accurate measurement of mechanical properties of soft materials by introducing transition layers into test samples	57
Multiple edge cracks in a coated semi-infinite medium due to non-Fourier thermal shock	56
A dual-horizon peridynamic model for Reissner–Mindlin plates with arbitrary horizon sizes and shapes	54
Experimental characterization and phase-field modeling of anisotropic brittle fracture in silicon	54
A physics-enhanced deep learning approach for prediction of stress intensity factors in bimaterial interface cracks	54
Capturing fracture initiation and crack propagation of car windshields	51
Effect of complex stress states on creep rupture life of nickel-based superalloys: Mechanisms and modeling	51
Stress intensity factors and T-stresses by boundary integral equations: 3D statics	51
An experimental and numerical study on the translaminar fracture of cross-ply non-crimp fabric composites	51
Controllable peeling of an elastic strip on a viscoelastic substrate	50
Finite element analyses of rail head cracks: Predicting direction and rate of rolling contact fatigue crack growth	50
Fracture behavior of shale containing two parallel veins under semi-circular bend test using a phase‐field method	48
An extended average strain energy density criterion for predicting crack propagation of mixed mode I-II fracture in concrete	48
Experimental analysis and prediction of CFRP delamination caused by ice impact	48
Near-threshold fatigue crack propagation in a Ni-based single crystal superalloy affected by crystallographic anisotropy	47
A unified estimation method for gear fatigue P-S-N curves and fatigue limits based on ensemble learning and data augmentation	46
Quantifying 3D crack propagation in nodular graphite cast iron using advanced digital volume correlation and X-ray computed tomography	46
A time-domain stepwise fatigue assessment to bridge small-scale fracture mechanics with large-scale system dynamics for high-speed maglev lightweight bogies	45
Experimental study on the influencing factors of hydraulic fracture initiation from prefabricated crack tips	45
Fracturing characteristics of unconfined rock plate subjected to point-plate loading	45