2026 Dewey H. Hodges: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	70	387	178	409	18666

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

387

178

409

18666

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Spirit of St. Louis Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Dewey H. Hodges was affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focused on engineering, with significant contributions in aerospace engineering, mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, computational mechanics, and control and systems engineering.

The scientist's work covered a range of topics, including:

Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control
Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
Structural Analysis and Optimization
Structural Load-Bearing Analysis
Aerospace Engineering and Control Systems
Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Among the recent papers associated with their field, notable works include:

Functionally graded thick sandwich beams with porous core: Buckling analysis via differential transform method, 2021, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines
On the mechanics of composite sandwich plates with three-dimensional stress recovery, 2020, International Journal of Engineering Science
Aeroelasticity of Flying-Wing Aircraft Subject to Morphing: A Stability Study, 2022, AIAA Journal
Geometrically Exact Beam-based Aeroelastic Modeling and Solution Of Composite Rotor Blades in Forward Flight, 2022, Journal of the American Helicopter Society
Performance Advantages and Resonance Analysis of a Variable Speed Rotor Using Geometrically Exact Beam Formulations, 2022, Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Frequent collaborators included Ruthvik Chandrasekaran, Aqib A. Syed, Mojtaba Moshtaghzadeh, Pezhman Mardanpour, and Mohit Gupta. The scientist's research was regularly published in venues such as:

Journal of the American Helicopter Society
AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines
International Journal of Engineering Science
AIAA Journal

Dewey H. Hodges was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014 and received the Spirit of St. Louis Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2015.

Best Publications

Introduction to Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity

DH Hodges;GA Pierce;MA Cutchins

1055
Citations
Nonlinear equations of motion for the elastic bending and torsion of twisted nonuniform rotor blades

D. H. Hodges;E. H. Dowell

852
Citations
Nonlinear Composite Beam Theory

Dewey H. Hodges

724
Citations
The Theory of Thin-Walled Bars

Atle Gjelsvik;D. H. Hodges

597
Citations
A mixed variational formulation based on exact intrinsic equations for dynamics of moving beams

Dewey H. Hodges

553
Citations
VABS: A new concept for composite rotor blade cross-sectional modeling

Carlos E. S. Cesnik;Dewey H. Hodges

544
Citations
Nonlinear Aeroelasticity and Flight Dynamics of High-Altitude Long-Endurance Aircraft

Mayuresh J. Patil;Dewey H. Hodges;Carlos E. S. Cesnik

472
Citations
Fundamentals of Structural Stability

George J. Simitses;Dewey H. Hodges

446
Citations
On Timoshenko-like modeling of initially curved and twisted composite beams

Wenbin Yu;Dewey H. Hodges;Vitali Volovoi;Carlos E.S. Cesnik

441
Citations
Flight Dynamics of Highly Flexible Flying Wings

Mayuresh J. Patil;Dewey H. Hodges

365
Citations
Validation of the Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional Analysis

Wenbin Yu;Vitali V. Volovoi;Dewey H. Hodges;Xianyu Hong

355
Citations
On the importance of aerodynamic and structural geometrical nonlinearities in aeroelastic behavior of high-aspect-ratio wings $

Mayuresh J. Patil;Dewey H. Hodges

354
Citations
Geometrically Exact, Intrinsic Theory for Dynamics of Curved and Twisted Anisotropic Beams

Dewey H. Hodges

345
Citations
Variational asymptotic beam sectional analysis – An updated version

Wenbin Yu;Dewey H. Hodges;Jimmy C. Ho

302
Citations
Free-Vibration Analysis of Rotating Beams by a Variable-Order Finite-Element Method

Dewey Yang Hodges;Michael Yang Rutkowski

302
Citations
Nonlinear Beam Kinematics by Decomposition of the Rotation Tensor

D. A. Danielson;D. H. Hodges

287
Citations
Review of composite rotor blade modeling

Dewey H. Hodges

283
Citations
Limit-cycle oscillations in high-aspect-ratio wings

M. J. Patil;D. H. Hodges;C. E.S. Cesnik

278
Citations
Introduction to Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity: Contents

Dewey H. Hodges;G. Alvin Pierce

267
Citations
On asymptotically correct Timoshenko-like anisotropic beam theory

Bogdan Popescu;Dewey H. Hodges

218
Citations
Nonlinear Beam Kinematics by Decomposition of the Rotation

D. A. Danielson;D. H. Hodges

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenbin Yu Purdue University West Lafayette

Carlos E. S. Cesnik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Anthony J. Calise Georgia Institute of Technology

Dimitri N. Mavris Georgia Institute of Technology

Peretz P. Friedmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Maenghyo Cho Seoul National University

Michael I. Friswell Swansea University

Olivier A. Bauchau University of Maryland, College Park

Suong V. Hoa Concordia University

Heung Soo Kim Dongguk University

External Links

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