OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Experimental Mechanics is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Message from the Incoming Editor-in-Chief	63
An Inverse Parameter Identification in Finite Element Problems Using Machine Learning-Aided Optimization Framework	53
Ductile Fracture Modeling of Flaw-Containing Additively Manufactured SS316L: Application to Complex Structures	28
An Internal Digital Image Correlation Technique for High-Strain Rate Dynamic Experiments	24
On the Cover: Measurement Layout for Residual Stress Mapping Using Slitting	20
On the Cover: A Novel Method to Measure Equi-Biaxial Residual Stress by Nanoindentation	20
Coupled Hydraulic-Mechanical Experimental System for Evaluating Dynamic Mechanical and Transport Behaviors of Deep Rocks	20
On the Cover: A Comparison of Conventional Gel Stiffness Characterization Techniques with Cavitation Rheology	19
On the Cover: High‑Speed, 3D Volumetric Displacement and Strain Mapping in Soft Materials Using Light Field Microscopy	19
Statistical Assessment of Tensile Static, Creep and Fatigue Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP	17
A Modified Iosipescu Method to Study In-Plane Shear Strength of C/SiC Composites at Elevated Temperatures in Air	16
Nano-Indentation Hardness and Strain Hardening of Silicon, Sodium Chloride and Tungsten Crystals	16
Contour Method with Uncertainty Quantification: A Robust and Optimised Framework via Gaussian Process Regression	15
Analysis of Deformation Mechanisms in Metal Extrusion of 17–4 PH Stainless Steel: Influence of Layer Thickness and Contour Number	15
Aramid Fiber Surface Area Impact on Elastomer Crack Growth	15
Compressive Properties of Aluminium Foam-Filled Square Stainless Steel Tubes With Elliptical and Circular Holes	15
Rotating Vibration Measurement Using 3D Digital Image Correlation	14
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis in the Presence of Biaxial Stresses in Titanium: Effect of the Mean Stress on Errors in Stress Evaluation	14
Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modelling of the Impact Behavior of PVC Foams	14
Synchronous Raman Spectroscopy Method for Measuring Strain-Charge Information of Graphene Materials	14
Effect of Speckle Edge Characteristics on DIC Calculation Error	13
Optimization on Cruciform Specimen Geometries of AA5052 Under Equi-Biaxial Loading: Acquisition of Ultimate Fracture Strain	13
Research on Strain Modulation of Spectral Reflectance in Soft Materials	13
Towards a Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Residual Stress Measurements with Relaxation Methods: Finding Average Residual Stresses is a Well-Posed Problem	13
Crack Growth of Defects in Ti-6Al-4V Under Uniaxial Tension: Measurements and Modeling	13

The Effect of Variable Nozzle Temperature and Cross-Sectional Pattern on Interlayer Tensile Strength Of 3D Printed ABS Specimens	12
Micro-deformation Study of Stainless Steel Impacted by Ceramic Particle Using Electron Moiré Method	12
Residual Stresses from Incremental Hole Drilling Using Directly Deposited Thin Film Strain Gauges	12
Calorific Analysis of the Mechanical Response of Granular Materials Composed of Ellipsoidal Rubbery Particles	11
Effect of Solution Methods for Evolutionary R-Values on the Prediction of Anisotropic Yield Behavior	11
High-Speed, 3D Volumetric Displacement and Strain Mapping in Soft Materials Using Light Field Microscopy	11
Semi-Analytical Approach to Determine Interfacial Adhesion in Polymer-Bonded Explosives	11
Stiffness and Energy Dissipation of Polymer Matrix Composites Containing Embedded Metallic Negative Stiffness Structures	10
Intermethod Comparison and Evaluation of Measured Near Surface Residual Stress in Milled Aluminum	10
Damage Quantification via Digital Volume Correlation with Heterogeneous Mechanical Regularization: Application to an In situ Meso-Flexural Test on Mortar	10
Bending of Soft Micropatterns in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication Tribology	10
The Effect of Bulk Residual Stress on Milling-Induced Residual Stress and Distortion	10
Analysis of Damage and Failure in Anisotropic Ductile Metals Based on Biaxial Experiments with the H-Specimen	10
Quantitative Full-Field Data Fusion for Evaluation of Complex Structures	10
A Modular Peel Fixture for Tape Peel Tests on Immovable Substrates	10
Development and Analysis of an On-Road Torque Measurement Device for Trucks	10
Interlaminar Fracture Toughness Measurement of Multilayered 2D Thermoelectric Materials Bi2Te3 by a Tapered Cantilever Bending Experiment	9
Microindentation of Cartilage Before and After Articular Loading in a Bioreactor: Assessment of Length-Scale Dependency Using Two Analysis Methods	9
Sensitivity Study Using Synthetic 3D Image Datasets to Investigate the Effect of Noise Artefacts on Digital Volume Correlation	9
Biaxial Strain Control Fatigue Testing Strategies for Composite Materials	9
Stability and Resolution of a Conventional Displacement Measuring Heterodyne Interferometer Using a Single Phase-Locked Loop	9
Theoretical Considerations for Transitioning the Grid Method Technique to the Microscale	9
Density, Microstructure, and Strain-Rate Effects on the Compressive Response of Polyurethane Foams	9
Tribological Characterization of Gradient-density Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Surfaces	9
A Novel High-Speed Bulge Test to Identify the Large Deformation Behavior of Sheet Metals	9
Residual Stress Measurements in Extreme Environments for Hazardous, Layered Specimens	9
A Comparison of Conventional Gel Stiffness Characterization Techniques with Cavitation Rheology	8
Dynamics of Miniature and High-Compliance Structures: Experimental Characterization and Modeling	8
Phase-Shifting Technique of Coherent Gradient Sensing Method for Residual Deformation Analysis of Repaired Components	8
A Dynamic Hydraulic Fracturing Test Technology Based on Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar System	8
A New Proposal for a Method to Measure Orthogonal R-Value Using a Single Tensile Test with Three-Dimensional Digital Image Correlation	8
Compact Probe for Non-Contact Ultrasonic Inspection with the Gas-Coupled Laser Acoustic Detection (GCLAD) Technique	7
Simulation of Infinite Boundaries When Evaluating Hole-Drilling Calibration Data	7
Unique Identification of Stiffness Parameters in Hyperelastic Models for Anisotropic, Deformable, Thin Materials Based on a Single Experiment - A Feasibility Study Based on Virtual Full-Field Data	7
Dynamic Magneto-Mechanical Analysis of Isotropic and Anisotropic Magneto-Active Elastomers	7
Correction: A Comparative Study of the Performance of IR Detectors vs. High-Speed Cameras Under Dynamic Loading Conditions	7
High-Speed Deformation Measurement with Event-Based Cameras	7
Measuring Residual Strain and Stress in Thermal Spray Coatings Using Neutron Diffractometers	7
Spherical Indentation Method for Measuring Biaxial Residual Stresses Without Using Stress-Free Sample	7
Development and Application of Dynamic Integrated DIC Material Parameters Inversion Method for SHPB Tests	7
Open Source, In-Situ, Intermediate Strain-Rate Tensile Impact Device for Soft Materials and Cell Culture Systems	7
Physics-Informed Neural Network Based Digital Image Correlation Method	7
Correction: Assessment and Validation of Incremental Hole-Drilling Calculation Methods for Residual Stress Determination in Fiber-Metal Laminates	7
Residual Stress Determination of Cast Aluminium Benchmark Components Using Strain Relief Techniques	7
On the Strain Measurement for Thermoplastics with Bi-Axial Extensometer in Thermo-Mechanical Testing: A Case of Characterizing Temperature and Physical Aging Effects on Polycarbonate	7
Mechanical Characterisation and Cohesive Law Calibration for a Nitrocellulose Based–Cyclotetramethylene Tetranitramine (HMX) Polymer Bonded Explosive	7
Fatigue and Progressive Damage of Thin Woven CFRP Plates Weakened by Circular Holes	7
Correction: Experimental Investigation of the Ballistic Response of Head Surrogate Against Fragment Simulating Projectiles	7
Influence of Second-Order Effects on Thermoelastic Behaviour in the Proximity of Crack Tips on Titanium	7
Assessing the Validity of Analytical Equations for Offshore Power Cable Bending with Fixed and Loose Tube Fiber Strain Sensors	6

Super Resolution Digital Image Correlation (SR-DIC): an Alternative to Image Stitching at High Magnifications	6
An Image Processing Technique to Identify Crack Tip Position and Automate Fracture Parameter Extraction Using DIC: Application to Dynamic Fracture	6
A Damage Sensing Method of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Via Multi-frequency Electrical Impedance Fusion	6
On the Cover: Contour Method with Uncertainty Quantification: A Robust and Optimised Framework via Gaussian Process Regression	6
Rapid Determination of Fatigue Limit Using Temperature Second Harmonic	6
On the Cover: Rapid and Repeatable Fluorescent Speckle Pattern Fabrication Using a Handheld Inkjet Printer	6
A Hybrid Method for the Online Evaluation of Stress Fields in Metal Additive Manufacturing	6
Multi-view Digital Image Correlation Systems for In Vitro Testing of Arteries from Mice to Humans	6
On the Cover: Architecture Driven Digital Volume Correlation: Application to the Analysis of In-Situ Crushing of a Polyurethane Foam	6
On the Cover: Characterization and Prediction of Polymer/Active Material Interface Failure in Battery Electrodes	6
Special Collection on New Methods and Applications of Optical and Photo-Mechanics	6
On the Importance of Direct-Levelling for Constitutive Material Model Calibration using Digital Image Correlation and Finite Element Model Updating	6
Feasibility of Nondestructive Measurement of 3D Vascular Intramural Strains by Optical Coherence Elastography Based on Distortion Correction and Digital Volume Correlation	6
Digital Image Correlation at Extreme Temperatures Using Shortwave Ultraviolet (UV-C) Lights and Filters	6
On the Cover of this Issue: In-situ Strain Field Measurement and Mechano-Electro-Chemical Analysis of Graphite Electrodes via Fluorescence Digital Image Correlation by H. Xie, W. Yang, Y. Kang, Q. Zh	6
A Note On Measuring Mechanical Fields in 3-D Solids Using Digital Gradient Sensing and Refractive Index Matching	6
On the Cover: Unique Identification of Stiffness Parameters in Hyperelastic Models for Anisotropic, Deformable, Thin Materials Based on a Single Experiment - A Feasibility Study Based on Virtual Full-	6
Thermoelastic Stress Measurement Using SVD Thermo-Component Analysis	5
Mechanical Characterisation and Simulation of the Tensile Behaviour of Polymeric Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures	5
X-Ray Digital Image Correlation: A Reliable Method for Deformation Measurement at 1000 °C	5
Ill-Posedness and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Residual Stress Measurement Inverse Solutions	5
Experimental Study on the Elastic–plastic Transitions of the Hetero-structured High Pressure Die Casting Mg–Al-RE Alloy	5
Temperature Dependent Dynamic Response of Open-Cell Polyurethane Foams	5
Towards Quantitative Crystal Plasticity Model Validation Using Experimental In-plane Deformation Maps	5
Identification of Bimodular Material Parameters via a Semi-Closed Form Solution of the Brazilian Test	5
Experimental Modal Analysis of Nonlinear Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators by Using Response-Controlled Stepped-Sine Testing	5
Simultaneous and Contactless Characterization of the Young’s and Shear Moduli of Gelatin-Based Hydrogels	5
Stress-Based S–N Base Function with Shear Modulus for Fatigue Assessment on Industrial Isolators	5
Oil-Pressure Based Apparatus for In-Situ High-Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Studies During Biaxial Deformation	5
Investigating the Mechanism of Facet Formation and the Influence of Crack Initiation Size on a Cast Aluminum Alloy in Ultrasonic Fatigue Under Varied Humidity Environments	5
Determination of the Modulus of Elasticity by Bending Tests of Specimens with Nonuniform Cross Section	5
Distributed Electro-Mechanical Coupling Effects in a Dielectric Elastomer Membrane Array	5
A Label-Free Measurement Method for Plane Stress States in Optical Isotropic Films with Spectroscopic Ellipsometry	5
A Frequency Domain Error Model for Local 2D-DIC	5
Algorithms for Nanoindentation Strain Rate Jump Testing and Analysis	5
Mode III Fracture Toughness Measurement Using the Transverse Shear Cracked Plate Specimen	5
Development of the Bicone Mandrel Ring Expansion Test to Evaluate the Hoop Stress in Extruded Aluminum Tubes	5
An Attempt to Predict Transparent Armor Ballistic Performance through Quasi-Static Punch Shear Test	5
Load-Relaxation Characteristics of Chemical and Physical Hydrogels as Soft Tissue Mimics	5
An Experimental Methodology to Characterize the Plasticity of Sheet Metals from Uniaxial to Plane Strain Tension	5
Direct Determination of the Power Threshold Value of Vortex Avalanche in YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Films Triggered by a Laser Pulse	5
Loading Rate Effects for Flaws Undergoing Mixed-Mode I/III Fracture	5
Characterization of Flow Induced Anisotropy in Sheet Metal at Large Strain	5
Quantitative Evaluation of Interfacial Defect Size and Pattern by Solving a 3D Inverse Problem Based on Step Heating Thermography	5
Damage Detection and Quantification via Multiview DIC at Varying Scales	5