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Chandrakant S. Desai

Chandrakant S. Desai

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
53
Citations
12596
World Ranking
3348
National Ranking
992

Chandrakant S. Desai publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chandrakant S. Desai sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 275 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Chandrakant S. Desai D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chandrakant S. Desai sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chandrakant S. Desai is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in the field of engineering, with a focus on civil and structural engineering as well as related subfields.

The scientist's research primarily covers topics in geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering and soil stabilization, landslides and related hazards, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, grouting, rheology, and soil mechanics, rock mechanics and modeling, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Frequent publication venues for Desai's work include the International Journal of Geomechanics, Acta Geotechnica, and the Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Recent papers authored by or involving Desai include:

  • Experimental Investigation and Constitutive Modeling of Rock-Like Specimens' Interface with the Effect of Roughness Based on 3D Printing, 2023, International Journal of Geomechanics
  • Evolution of Particle Shape Produced by Sand Breakage, 2022, International Journal of Geomechanics
  • New Simple Breakage Index for Crushable Granular Soils, 2021, International Journal of Geomechanics
  • Effects of Load Duration and Stress Level on Deformation and Particle Breakage of Carbonate Sands, 2020, International Journal of Geomechanics
  • Rockfill Particle Breakage Generated by Wetting Deformation under the Complex Stress Path, 2020, International Journal of Geomechanics

Among frequent co-authors in Desai's publications are Yang Xiao, Amir Akbari Garakani, Yue Sun, Wei Zhou, and Jinquan Shi.

Desai has contributed to book publications, notably with Springer Nature, including the book titled Advances in Computer Methods and Geomechanics published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to the finite element method; a numerical method for engineering analysis

    Chandrakant S Desai;John F Abel

  • Thin‐layer element for interfaces and joints

    C. S. Desai;M. M. Zaman;J. G. Lightner;H. J. Siriwardane

  • Constitutive laws for engineering materials, with emphasis on geologic materials

    Chandrakant S. Desai;Hema J. Siriwardane

  • Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

    C.S. Desai;John T. Christian

  • Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept

    Chandrakant S. Desai;Antonio Gens

  • Cyclic Testing and Modeling of Interfaces

    C. S. Desai;E. C. Drumm;M. M. Zaman

  • A hierarchical approach for constitutive modelling of geologic materials

    C. S. Desai;S. Somasundaram;George N Frantziskonis

  • Elementary finite element method

    Chandrakant S. Desai

  • Introduction to the Finite-Element Method

    C. S. Desai;J. F. Abel;P. V. Marcal

  • A general basis for yield, failure and potential functions in plasticity

    C. S. Desai

  • Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept

    CS Desai;SA Sherif

  • Constitutive model with strain softening

    G. Frantziskonis;C.S. Desai

  • Constitutive model with strain softening

    G. Frantziskonis;C.S. Desai

  • Viscoplastic model for geologic materials with generalized flow rule

    C. S. Desai;D. Zhang

  • A residual flow procedure and application for free surface flow in porous media

    C.S. Desai;G.C. Li

  • Finite element residual schemes for unconfined flow

    Chandrakant S. Desai

  • Numerical design-analysis for piles in sands

    C.S. Desai

  • NUMERICAL DESIGN-ANALYSIS FOR PILES IN SANDS

    Chandrakant S. Desai

  • Nonlinear analysis of 3D seismic interaction of soil–pile–structure systems and application

    Y.X. Cai;P.L. Gould;C.S. Desai

  • A soil-tool model based on limit equilibrium analysis

    J. V. Perumpral;R. D. Grisso;C. S. Desai

  • Three-dimensional analysis of a pile-group foundation

    A. Muqtadir;C. S. Desai

  • Interface Model for Dynamic Soil‐Structure Interaction

    Md. Musharraf‐uz Zaman;Chandrakant S. Desai;Eric C. Drumm

  • Effect of Intermediate Principal-Stress Ratio on Particle Breakage of Rockfill Material

    Yang Xiao;Hanlong Liu;Chandrakant S. Desai;Yifei Sun

  • Mechanics of engineering materials

    C. S. Desai;Richard H. Gallagher

Frequent Co-Authors

Yang Xiao
Yang Xiao Chongqing University
Musharraf Zaman
Musharraf Zaman University of Oklahoma
Hanlong Liu
Hanlong Liu Chongqing University
Tribikram Kundu
Tribikram Kundu University of Arizona
Hamid Saadatmanesh
Hamid Saadatmanesh University of Arizona
Stein Sture
Stein Sture University of Colorado Boulder
Antonio Gens
Antonio Gens Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Robert L. Lytton
Robert L. Lytton Texas A&M University
Armin W. Stuedlein
Armin W. Stuedlein Oregon State University
H. Saunders
H. Saunders United States Department of the Navy

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