2026 David Mašín: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	38	6612	6131	8	8	113	4485

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

David Mašín is affiliated with Charles University in the Czech Republic and primarily focuses on research within the field of engineering, with a strong emphasis on civil and structural engineering. Their work extensively covers subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, safety, risk, reliability and quality, environmental engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The research topics that David Mašín has contributed to span several specialized areas. These include:

Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Soil and Unsaturated Flow
Landslides and related hazards
Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics

David Mašín has authored multiple papers in key subject areas. Among recent publications are:

"A unified lateral soil reaction model for monopiles in soft clay considering various length-to-diameter (L/D) ratios," 2020, Ocean Engineering
"Centrifuge testing on monotonic and cyclic lateral behavior of large-diameter slender piles in sand," 2021, Ocean Engineering
"Characteristic limitations of advanced plasticity and hypoplasticity models for cyclic loading of sands," 2021, Acta Geotechnica
"Constitutive model for monotonic and cyclic loading on anisotropic clays," 2020, Géotechnique
"Water retention of a bentonite for deep geological radioactive waste repositories: High-temperature experiments and thermodynamic modeling," 2020, Engineering Geology

Their frequent collaborators include:

J. Duque
Jan Najser
Tomáš Kadlíček
Merita Tafili
W. Fuentes

David Mašín regularly publishes in venues such as:

Computers and Geotechnics
Acta Geotechnica
SSRN Electronic Journal
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Best Publications

A hypoplastic constitutive model for clays

D. Mašín

458
Citations
Cyclic lateral response and failure mechanisms of semi-rigid pile in soft clay: centrifuge tests and numerical modelling

Yi Hong;Ben He;Lizhong Wang;Zhenyu Wang

249
Citations
Predicting the dependency of a degree of saturation on void ratio and suction using effective stress principle for unsaturated soils

David Mašín

198
Citations
The soilmodels.info project

Gerd Gudehus;Angelo Amorosi;Antonio Gens;Ivo Herle

185
Citations
Clay hypoplasticity model including stiffness anisotropy

D. MAšíN

160
Citations
Double structure hydromechanical coupling formalism and a model for unsaturated expansive clays

David Mašín

124
Citations
Sandstone landforms shaped by negative feedback between stress and erosion

Jiri Bruthans;Jan Soukup;Jana Vaculikova;Michal Filippi

120
Citations
Influence of sand density and retaining wall stiffness on three-dimensional responses of tunnel to basement excavation

Charles Wang Wai Ng;Jiangwei Shi;David Mašín;Huasheng Sun

114
Citations
Benchmark of constitutive models for unsaturated soils

F. D’onza;Dominico Gallipoli;Simon Wheeler;F. F. Casini

104
Citations
A unified lateral soil reaction model for monopiles in soft clay considering various length-to-diameter (L/D) ratios

Lizhong Wang;Yongqing Lai;Yi Hong;David Mašín

102
Citations
Hypoplastic Cam-clay model

David Mašín

98
Citations
A hypoplastic model for mechanical response of unsaturated soils

David Mašín;Nasser Khalili

98
Citations
A thermo‐mechanical model for variably saturated soils based on hypoplasticity

David Mašín;Nasser Khalili

97
Citations
State boundary surface of a hypoplastic model for clays

David Mašín;Ivo Herle

96
Citations
Small strain stiffness anisotropy of natural sedimentary clays: review and a model

David Mašín;Josef Rott

95
Citations
Swelling phenomena and effective stress in compacted expansive clays

David Mašín;Nasser Khalili

89
Citations
Directional response of a reconstituted fine‐grained soil—Part II: performance of different constitutive models

David Mašín;Claudio Tamagnini;Gioacchino Viggiani;Daniele Costanzo

86
Citations
3D Modeling of an NATM Tunnel in High K0 Clay Using Two Different Constitutive Models

David Mašín

86
Citations
Graphical representation of constitutive equations

G. Gudehus;D. Mašín

84
Citations
Asymptotic behaviour of granular materials

David Mašín

80
Citations
Enhancement of a hypoplastic model for granular soil–structure interface behaviour

H. Stutz;D. Masin;Frank Wuttke

52
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Wang Wai Ng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nasser Khalili University of New South Wales

Mark Cassidy University of Melbourne

Yi Hong Zhejiang University

Gianvito Scaringi Charles University

Gioacchino Viggiani Grenoble Alpes University

Gunther Kletetschka Charles University

Roberto Nova Polytechnic University of Milan

Antonio Gens Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Lyesse Laloui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

External Links

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