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D-Index
48
Citations
10145
World Ranking
1271
National Ranking
518

Florin Bobaru publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florin Bobaru sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 158 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Florin Bobaru D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florin Bobaru sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Florin Bobaru is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States and specializes primarily in the field of engineering. Their research contributions span several key subfields, including mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computational mechanics, and materials chemistry.

The core topics of Florin Bobaru's work focus extensively on numerical methods in engineering, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, and electromagnetic simulation and numerical methods. Additional areas of emphasis include fatigue and fracture mechanics, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, rock mechanics and modeling, as well as concrete properties and behavior.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Additive manufacturing of magnesium alloys, 2020, Bioactive Materials
  • A coupled mechano-chemical peridynamic model for pit-to-crack transition in stress-corrosion cracking, 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Crack nucleation in brittle and quasi-brittle materials: A peridynamic analysis, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • A stochastic multiscale peridynamic model for corrosion-induced fracture in reinforced concrete, 2020, Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • On validating peridynamic models and a phase-field model for dynamic brittle fracture in glass, 2020, Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Frequent collaborators with Florin Bobaru include:

  • Ziguang Chen
  • Siavash Jafarzadeh
  • Jiangming Zhao
  • Farzaneh Mousavi
  • Longzhen Wang

Publications by Florin Bobaru are often found in the following journals:

  • International Journal of Fracture
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Best Publications

  • Studies of dynamic crack propagation and crack branching with peridynamics

    Youn Doh Ha;Florin Bobaru

  • Convergence, adaptive refinement, and scaling in 1D peridynamics

    Florin Bobaru;Mijia Yang;Mijia Yang;Leonardo Frota Alves;Stewart A. Silling

  • Characteristics of dynamic brittle fracture captured with peridynamics

    Youn Doh Ha;Florin Bobaru

  • Peridynamic modeling of membranes and fibers

    S.A. Silling;F. Bobaru

  • Handbook of Peridynamic Modeling

    Florin Bobaru;John T. Foster;Philippe H Geubelle;Stewart A. Silling

  • The peridynamic formulation for transient heat conduction

    Florin Bobaru;Monchai Duangpanya

  • Peridynamic model for dynamic fracture in unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites

    Wenke Hu;Youn Doh Ha;Florin Bobaru

  • Surface corrections for peridynamic models in elasticity and fracture

    Q. V. Le;F. Bobaru

  • Why do cracks branch? A peridynamic investigation of dynamic brittle fracture

    Florin Bobaru;Guanfeng Zhang

  • Peridynamics for multiscale materials modeling

    E Askari;F Bobaru;R B Lehoucq;M L Parks

  • A peridynamic formulation for transient heat conduction in bodies with evolving discontinuities

    Florin Bobaru;Monchai Duangpanya

  • Peridynamic modeling of pitting corrosion damage

    Ziguang Chen;Florin Bobaru

  • Crack nucleation in a peridynamic solid

    S. A. Silling;O. Weckner;E. Askari;Florin Bobaru Ph.D.

  • ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT AND MULTISCALE MODELING IN 2D PERIDYNAMICS

    Florin Bobaru;Youn Doh Ha

  • Additive manufacturing of magnesium alloys

    Rakeshkumar Karunakaran;Sam Ortgies;Ali Tamayol;Florin Bobaru

  • The Meaning, Selection, and Use of the Peridynamic Horizon and Its Relation to Crack Branching in Brittle Materials

    Florin Bobaru;Wenke Hu

  • A peridynamic model for dynamic fracture in functionally graded materials

    Zhanqi Cheng;Guanfeng Zhang;Yenan Wang;Florin Bobaru

  • Impact Mechanics and High-Energy Absorbing Materials: Review

    Pizhong Qiao;Pizhong Qiao;Pizhong Qiao;Mijia Yang;Mijia Yang;Mijia Yang;Florin Bobaru;Florin Bobaru;Florin Bobaru

  • MODELING DYNAMIC FRACTURE AND DAMAGE IN A FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE LAMINA WITH PERIDYNAMICS

    Wenke Hu;Youn Doh Ha;Florin Bobaru

  • Validation of a peridynamic model for fatigue cracking

    Guanfeng Zhang;Quang Le;Adrian Loghin;Arun Subramaniyan

  • Impact damage on a thin glass plate with a thin polycarbonate backing

    Wenke Hu;Yenan Wang;Jian Yu;Chian-Fong Yen

  • Selecting the kernel in a peridynamic formulation: A study for transient heat diffusion

    Ziguang Chen;Florin Bobaru

Frequent Co-Authors

Stewart Andrew Silling
Stewart Andrew Silling Sandia National Laboratories
Joseph A. Turner
Joseph A. Turner Iowa State University
Pizhong Qiao
Pizhong Qiao Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jiun-Shyan Chen
Jiun-Shyan Chen University of California, San Diego
Subrata Mukherjee
Subrata Mukherjee Cornell University
Ali Tamayol
Ali Tamayol University of Connecticut
Richard B. Lehoucq
Richard B. Lehoucq Sandia National Laboratories
Ugo Galvanetto
Ugo Galvanetto University of Padua
Philippe H. Geubelle
Philippe H. Geubelle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yong-Rak Kim
Yong-Rak Kim Texas A&M University

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