2026 Alain Molinari: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	64	559	508	8	7	211	13046
Materials Science	62	6535	6321	166	162	199	12709

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award

Overview

Alain Molinari is affiliated with the University of Lorraine in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focused interest in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work centers on several key topics, including:

High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties
Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
High-Pressure Geophysics and Materials
Composite Material Mechanics
Metal Forming Simulation Techniques
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels

Molinari's publication record includes contributions to various scientific journals, notably:

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
International Journal of Solids and Structures
European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
Nature Communications
International Journal of Plasticity

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Molinari include:

Steady shock waves in porous metals: Viscosity and micro-inertia effects, 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
Intrinsic negative magnetoresistance from the chiral anomaly of multifold fermions, 2024, Nature Communications
The role of micro-inertia on the shock structure in porous metals, 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Mean field interaction model accounting for the spatial distribution of inclusions in elastic-viscoplastic composites, 2021, International Journal of Solids and Structures
Dynamic response of ductile materials containing cylindrical voids, 2020, International Journal of Fracture

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

Christophe Czarnota
S. Mercier
Z. Lovinger
Suraj Ravindran
G. Ravichandran

Best Publications

A self consistent approach of the large deformation polycrystal viscoplasticity

A. Molinari;G.R. Canova;S. Ahzi

1290
Citations
A dislocation-based model for all hardening stages in large strain deformation

Y. Estrin;L.S. Tóth;A. Molinari;Y. Bréchet

804
Citations
Adiabatic shear banding in high speed machining of Ti-6Al-4V: experiments and modeling

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494
Citations
Analytical Characterization of Shear Localization in Thermoviscoplastic Materials

A. Molinari;R. J. Clifton

344
Citations
Modelling of orthogonal cutting with a temperature dependent friction law

A. Moufki;A. Molinari;D. Dudzinski

311
Citations
Micromechanical approach to the behavior of poroelastic materials

Luc Dormieux;A. Molinari;Djimedo Kondo

302
Citations
Strain Hardening at Large Strains as Predicted by Dislocation Based Polycrystal Plasticity Model

László S. Tóth;Alain Molinari;Yuri Estrin

268
Citations
Modelling plastic deformation of peridotite with the self-consistent theory

H.-R. Wenk;K. Bennett;G. R. Canova;A. Molinari

238
Citations
Constitutive relationships for 22MnB5 boron steel deformed isothermally at high temperatures

M. Naderi;L. Durrenberger;A. Molinari;W. Bleck

232
Citations
Instability and localization of plastic flow in shear at high strain rates

C. Fressengeas;A. Molinari

220
Citations
Collective behavior and spacing of adiabatic shear bands

A. Molinari

213
Citations
Homogenization of elastic-viscoplastic heterogeneous materials : Self-consistent and Mori-Tanaka schemes

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210
Citations
On the self-consistent modeling of elastic-plastic behavior of polycrystals

A. Molinari;S. Ahzi;R. Kouddane

208
Citations
Thermomechanical modelling of oblique cutting and experimental validation

A. Moufki;A. Devillez;D. Dudzinski;A. Molinari

194
Citations
Effect of Strain Hardening and Rate Sensitivity on the Dynamic Growth of a Void in a Plastic Material

M. Ortiz;A. Molinari

190
Citations
Inertia and thermal effects on the localization of plastic flow

C. Fressengeas;A. Molinari

176
Citations
Analytical and experimental investigation of rake contact and friction behavior in metal cutting

Emre Ozlu;Erhan Budak;A. Molinari

175
Citations
Tuning a self consistent viscoplastic model by finite element results—I. Modeling

A. Molinari;L.S. Tóth

167
Citations
Constitutive modeling of high-strain-rate deformation in metals based on the evolution of an effective microstructural length

A. Molinari;G. Ravichandran

167
Citations
Modelling of dynamic ductile fracture and application to the simulation of plate impact tests on tantalum

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161
Citations
Viscoplastic modeling of texture development in quartzite

H.-R. Wenk;G. Canova;A. Molinari;U. F. Kocks

159
Citations
An experimental technique for the measurement of temperature fields for the orthogonal cutting in high speed machining

Guy Sutter;Laurent Faure;Alain Molinari;Nicolas Ranc

154
Citations
A modelling of cutting for viscoplastic materials

D. Dudzinski;A. Molinari

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Laszlo S. Toth University of Lorraine

Yuri Estrin Monash University

Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley

Alexis Rusinek University of Lorraine

Eugene A. Olevsky San Diego State University

Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology

U.F. Kocks Los Alamos National Laboratory

Said Ahzi University of Strasbourg

Yves Bréchet Monash University

Olivier Bouaziz University of Lorraine

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