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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Israel
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
53
Citations
9528
World Ranking
1011
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Israel Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Daniel Rittel is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work covers several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Oral Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research focuses on a range of topics such as High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior, Energetic Materials and Combustion, Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Structural Response to Dynamic Loads, Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes, Titanium Alloys Microstructure and Properties, and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Rittel include:

  • Experimental investigation of polyurea coated aluminum plates under strong hydrodynamic shocks (2020, Thin-Walled Structures)
  • Achieving high strength with low residual stress in WAAM SS316L using flow-forming and heat treatment (2023, Materials Science and Engineering A)
  • Impact energy absorption behavior of graphene aerogels prepared by different drying methods (2022, Materials & Design)
  • Static and dynamic shear-compression response of additively manufactured Ti6Al4V specimens with embedded voids (2020, Mechanics of Materials)
  • Static and dynamic mechanical properties of wire and arc additively manufactured SS316L and ER70S6 (2021, Mechanics of Materials)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Daniel Rittel include G.G. Goviazin, Keren Shemtov-Yona, Amnon Shirizly, Pengwan Chen, and Jing Xie.

Publishing activity spans a variety of journals and venues, many of which have featured multiple works by them, including:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
  • International Journal of Impact Engineering
  • International Journal of Engineering Science

In recognition of their contributions, Daniel Rittel was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2015.

Best Publications

  • On the conversion of plastic work to heat during high strain rate deformation of glassy polymers

    D. Rittel

  • Dynamic recrystallization as a potential cause for adiabatic shear failure.

    D. Rittel;P. Landau;A. Venkert

  • Scaling the response of circular plates subjected to large and close-range spherical explosions. Part I: Air-blast loading

    A. Neuberger;S. Peles;D. Rittel

  • The dependence of the Taylor–Quinney coefficient on the dynamic loading mode

    D. Rittel;L.H. Zhang;S. Osovski

  • Adiabatic shear failure and dynamic stored energy of cold work.

    D. Rittel;Z. G. Wang;M. Merzer

  • A shear-compression specimen for large strain testing

    D. Rittel;S. Lee;G. Ravichandran

  • An analysis of nanoindentation in linearly elastic solids

    B. Poon;D. Rittel;G. Ravichandran

  • Thermo-mechanical aspects of adiabatic shear failure of AM50 and Ti6Al4V alloys

    D. Rittel;Z.G. Wang

  • Scaling the response of circular plates subjected to large and close-range spherical explosions. Part II: Buried charges

    A. Neuberger;S. Peles;D. Rittel

  • Modern topics and challenges in dynamic fracture

    Brian N. Cox;Huajian Gao;Dietmar Gross;Daniel Rittel

  • An investigation of dynamic crack initiation in PMMA

    D. Rittel;H. Maigre

  • The mechanical response of pure iron at high strain rates under dominant shear

    D. Rittel;G. Ravichandran;A. Venkert

  • Large strain mechanical behavior of 1018 cold-rolled steel over a wide range of strain rates

    M. Vural;G. Ravichandran;D. Rittel

  • A method for dynamic fracture toughness determination using short beams

    G. Weisbrod;D. Rittel

  • An investigation of the heat generated during cyclic loading of two glassy polymers. Part I: Experimental

    D. Rittel

  • Microstructural effects on adiabatic shear band formation

    S. Osovski;D. Rittel;P. Landau;A. Venkert

  • Failure modes of electrospun nanofibers

    E. Zussman;D. Rittel;Alexander Yarin

  • Theoretical and experimental analysis of longitudinal wave propagation in cylindrical viscoelastic rods

    A. Benatar;D. Rittel;A.L. Yarin

  • Determination of the Johnson–Cook Material Parameters Using the SCS Specimen

    A. Dorogoy;D. Rittel

  • Experimental investigation of transient thermoplastic effects in dynamic fracture

    D. Rittel

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Ravichandran
G. Ravichandran California Institute of Technology
Ramón Zaera
Ramón Zaera Carlos III University of Madrid
Guillaume Haiat
Guillaume Haiat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Moshe P. Dariel
Moshe P. Dariel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Mutlu Özcan
Mutlu Özcan University of Zurich
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Kaushik Bhattacharya California Institute of Technology
André Pineau
André Pineau Mines ParisTech
Eyal Zussman
Eyal Zussman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alexander L. Yarin
Alexander L. Yarin University of Illinois at Chicago
Rimma Lapovok
Rimma Lapovok Deakin University

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