International Journal of Fracture

Papers
(The H4-Index of International Journal of Fracture is 15. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fracture toughness characterization of 3D-printed advanced structured specimens by digital image correlation70
Influence of self-weight on size effect of quasi-brittle materials: generalized analytical formulation and application to the failure of irregular masonry arches37
A novel model for corrosion-induced cracking and spalling in reinforced concrete structures34
Enhanced resistance of mode II fracture by nonlocal interactions in 2D locally resonant elastic wave metamaterials27
Investigation on the dynamic fracture behavior of A508-III steel based on Johnson–Cook model20
Modelling of ductile fracture considering the effect of stress triaxiality and the energy partition theory in thin high-strength steel sheets20
Energy release rate of a mode-I crack in pure shear specimens subjected to large deformation18
Transient heat conduction in the cracked medium by Guyer–Krumhansl model18
Adaptive method for phase-field fracture using a volume weighted Quickselect algorithm17
Isogeometric multilayer thin-shell analysis of failure in composite structures with hygrothermal effects17
The effect of residual stress on the fracture toughness of Ti–6Al–4V produced by laser-based powder bed fusion16
Crack growth behavior of U71MnG rail steel under overload conditions described using a dislocation correction model16
Improved cohesive zone model: integrating strain rate, plastic strain, variable damping, and enhanced constitutive law for fracture propagation16
Incremental closure method to estimate changes in contact stress distributions for partially closed fatigue cracks in mode I loading16
Study on the whole dynamical fracture process of sandstone samples15
Less is more: removing a single bond increases the toughness of elastic networks15
Revisiting facet nucleation under mixed mode I + III loading with T-stress and mode-dependent fracture properties15
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