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D-Index
64
Citations
13060
World Ranking
1679
National Ranking
328

Gengkai Hu publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gengkai Hu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 214 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Gengkai Hu D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gengkai Hu is affiliated with the Beijing Institute of Technology in China and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and materials science. Their body of work encompasses multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, mechanics of materials, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, mechanical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as acoustic wave phenomena, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, advanced materials and mechanics, structural analysis and optimization, cellular and composite structures, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, and elasticity and wave propagation.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Rui Zhu, Yu Wei, Quan Zhang, Xiaoning Liu, and Yi Chen.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Tailored Mechanical Metamaterials with Programmable Quasi-Zero-Stiffness Features for Full-Band Vibration Isolation (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Dirac degeneracy and elastic topological valley modes induced by local resonant states (2020, Physical Review B)
  • An active mechanical Willis meta-layer with asymmetric polarizabilities (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Engineering zero modes in transformable mechanical metamaterials (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Non-resonant metasurface for broadband elastic wave mode splitting (2020, Applied Physics Letters)

The most prominent publication venues for the scientist include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Extreme Mechanics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Acta Mechanica Sinica, and Nature Communications. These venues reflect a balance between interdisciplinary engineering and specialized materials science journals.

The scientist has published a significant number of research works focused on advancing the understanding of metamaterials, elastic wave phenomena, and mechanical properties. Their research contributes to fields that intersect advanced engineering and material applications, including biomedical engineering and structural optimization.

Best Publications

  • Negative refraction of elastic waves at the deep-subwavelength scale in a single-phase metamaterial

    R. Zhu;X. N. Liu;G. K. Hu;C. T. Sun

  • A chiral elastic metamaterial beam for broadband vibration suppression

    R. Zhu;X.N. Liu;G.K. Hu;C.T. Sun

  • An elastic metamaterial with simultaneously negative mass density and bulk modulus

    X. N. Liu;G. K. Hu;G. L. Huang;C. T. Sun

  • Experimental study on negative effective mass in a 1D mass–spring system

    Shanshan Yao;Xiaoming Zhou;Gengkai Hu

  • Ultrathin low-frequency sound absorbing panels based on coplanar spiral tubes or coplanar Helmholtz resonators

    Xiaobing Cai;Xiaobing Cai;Qiuquan Guo;Gengkai Hu;Jun Yang

  • Smart three-dimensional lightweight structure triggered from a thin composite sheet via 3D printing technique.

    Quan Zhang;Kai Zhang;Gengkai Hu

  • Wave propagation characterization and design of two-dimensional elastic chiral metacomposite

    X.N. Liu;X.N. Liu;G.K. Hu;C.T. Sun;G.L. Huang

  • A hybrid elastic metamaterial with negative mass density and tunable bending stiffness

    Yangyang Chen;Gengkai Hu;Guoliang Huang

  • Analytic model of elastic metamaterials with local resonances

    Xiaoming Zhou;Gengkai Hu

  • Tailored Mechanical Metamaterials with Programmable Quasi-Zero-Stiffness Features for Full-Band Vibration Isolation

    Quan Zhang;Dengke Guo;Gengkai Hu

  • Tunable Digital Metamaterial for Broadband Vibration Isolation at Low Frequency

    Ziwei Wang;Quan Zhang;Kai Zhang;Gengkai Hu

  • Chiral effect in plane isotropic micropolar elasticity and its application to chiral lattices

    X.N. Liu;X.N. Liu;G.L. Huang;G.K. Hu

  • Dissipative elastic metamaterials for broadband wave mitigation at subwavelength scale

    Y.Y. Chen;M.V. Barnhart;J.K. Chen;G.K. Hu

  • Pattern Transformation of Heat-Shrinkable Polymer by Three-Dimensional (3D) Printing Technique

    Quan Zhang;Dong Yan;Kai Zhang;Gengkai Hu

  • Topological phase transition in mechanical honeycomb lattice

    Yi Chen;Xiaoning Liu;Gengkai Hu

  • A low-frequency sound absorbing material with subwavelength thickness

    Changru Chen;Zhibo Du;Gengkai Hu;Jun Yang

  • Analytical coupled vibroacoustic modeling of membrane-type acoustic metamaterials: membrane model.

    Yangyang Chen;Guoliang Huang;Xiaoming Zhou;Gengkai Hu

  • Broadband solid cloak for underwater acoustics

    Yi Chen;Mingye Zheng;Xiaoning Liu;Yafeng Bi

  • Elastic metamaterials with local resonances: an overview

    Xiaoming Zhou;Xiaoning Liu;Gengkai Hu

  • Analytical coupled vibroacoustic modeling of membrane-type acoustic metamaterials: membrane model

    Yangyang Chen;Xiaoming Zhou;Gengkai Hu;Chin-Teh Sun

  • A method of plasticity for general aligned spheroidal void or fiber-reinforced composites

    Gengkai Hu

  • The connections between the double-inclusion model and the Ponte Castaneda–Willis, Mori–Tanaka, and Kuster–Toksoz models

    G.K Hu;G.J Weng

Frequent Co-Authors

Guoliang Huang
Guoliang Huang University of Missouri
Jun Yang
Jun Yang University of Western Ontario
C.T. Sun
C.T. Sun Purdue University West Lafayette
Tian Jian Lu
Tian Jian Lu Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
George J. Weng
George J. Weng Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Huiling Duan
Huiling Duan Peking University
Xi-Qiao Feng
Xi-Qiao Feng Tsinghua University
Baohua Ji
Baohua Ji Zhejiang University
Qingping Sun
Qingping Sun Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fuh-Gwo Yuan
Fuh-Gwo Yuan North Carolina State University

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