2026 Chandrakant S. Desai: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	53	3346	3201	991	904	275	12596

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Engineering and Technology

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904

275

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Engineering and Technology

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Citations

12596

World Ranking

3346

National Ranking

991

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

1330
Citations
Thin‐layer element for interfaces and joints

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

1128
Citations
Constitutive laws for engineering materials, with emphasis on geologic materials

Chandrakant S. Desai;Hema J. Siriwardane

1067
Citations
Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

C.S. Desai;John T. Christian

480
Citations
Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept

Chandrakant S. Desai;Antonio Gens

465
Citations
Cyclic Testing and Modeling of Interfaces

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

449
Citations
A hierarchical approach for constitutive modelling of geologic materials

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

447
Citations
Elementary finite element method

Chandrakant S. Desai

353
Citations
Introduction to the Finite-Element Method

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

333
Citations
A general basis for yield, failure and potential functions in plasticity

C. S. Desai

250
Citations
Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept

CS Desai;SA Sherif

247
Citations
Constitutive model with strain softening

G. Frantziskonis;C.S. Desai

228
Citations
Constitutive model with strain softening

G. Frantziskonis;C.S. Desai

225
Citations
Viscoplastic model for geologic materials with generalized flow rule

C. S. Desai;D. Zhang

219
Citations
A residual flow procedure and application for free surface flow in porous media

C.S. Desai;G.C. Li

202
Citations
Finite element residual schemes for unconfined flow

Chandrakant S. Desai

199
Citations
Numerical design-analysis for piles in sands

C.S. Desai

174
Citations
NUMERICAL DESIGN-ANALYSIS FOR PILES IN SANDS

Chandrakant S. Desai

172
Citations
Nonlinear analysis of 3D seismic interaction of soil–pile–structure systems and application

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

161
Citations
A soil-tool model based on limit equilibrium analysis

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

149
Citations
Three-dimensional analysis of a pile-group foundation

A. Muqtadir;C. S. Desai

149
Citations
Interface Model for Dynamic Soil‐Structure Interaction

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

147
Citations
Effect of Intermediate Principal-Stress Ratio on Particle Breakage of Rockfill Material

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

141
Citations
Mechanics of engineering materials

C. S. Desai;Richard H. Gallagher

30
Citations