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Guangyong Sun

Guangyong Sun

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
93
Citations
22426
World Ranking
100
National Ranking
14

Materials Science

D-Index
87
Citations
19485
World Ranking
2006
National Ranking
643

Guangyong Sun 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 Guangyong Sun sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 252 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guangyong Sun 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 Guangyong Sun sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Guangyong Sun is affiliated with Hunan University in China and has a research focus primarily within engineering, with a significant concentration in mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, and civil and structural engineering. Their scholarly output reflects extensive work on the mechanical behavior and structural properties of composite materials and cellular structures.

Their research spans several important topics, including:

  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
  • Topology Optimization in Engineering
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization

Guangyong Sun has published in multiple frequent venues, with the majority of work appearing in:

  • Thin-Walled Structures
  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Composites Part B Engineering
  • Composite Structures
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Their collaboration network includes notable frequent co-authors such as Qing Li, Quantian Luo, Jianguang Fang, Tong Pang, and Chi Wu, highlighting a pattern of joint research efforts in related fields.

Representative recent papers by Guangyong Sun include:

  • "Lightweight hybrid materials and structures for energy absorption: A state-of-the-art review and outlook," published in 2022 in Thin-Walled Structures
  • "On the structural parameters of honeycomb-core sandwich panels against low-velocity impact," published in 2021 in Composites Part B Engineering

Additional significant publications in the research area, while not authored by Sun, form part of the contextual landscape of their research domain, such as studies on additively manufactured materials, fiber metal laminate impact behavior, and crashworthiness of thin-walled multi-cell structures. These reflect the wider ongoing investigations within the field of materials and structural engineering.

Sun's works contribute to the understanding and optimization of composite materials and energy-absorbing structures, particularly emphasizing the mechanical aspects of these materials under various forms of impact and deformation. The research incorporates both experimental and modeling techniques to analyze and enhance structural performance.

Best Publications

  • Lightweight hybrid materials and structures for energy absorption: A state-of-the-art review and outlook

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  • On design optimization for structural crashworthiness and its state of the art

    Jianguang Fang;Guangyong Sun;Na Qiu;Nam H. Kim

  • Additively manufactured materials and structures: A state-of-the-art review on their mechanical characteristics and energy absorption

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  • Crashworthiness design for functionally graded foam-filled thin-walled structures

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Shujuan Hou;Shiwei Zhou

  • Crashing analysis and multiobjective optimization for thin-walled structures with functionally graded thickness

    Guangyong Sun;Fengxiang Xu;Guangyao Li;Qing Li

  • Experimental and numerical study on honeycomb sandwich panels under bending and in-panel compression

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Xintao Huo;Dongdong Chen;Qing Li

  • Crashworthiness analysis and design of multi-cell hexagonal columns under multiple loading cases

    Na Qiu;Yunkai Gao;Jianguang Fang;Zhaoxuan Feng

  • Lightweight design of carbon twill weave fabric composite body structure for electric vehicle

    Qiang Liu;Yongzhou Lin;Zhijian Zong;Guangyong Sun

  • Energy absorption of metal, composite and metal/composite hybrid structures under oblique crushing loading

    Guohua Zhu;Guangyong Sun;Hang Yu;Shunfeng Li

  • Experimental study on crashworthiness of empty/aluminum foam/honeycomb-filled CFRP tubes

    Guangyong Sun;Shunfeng Li;Qiang Liu;Guangyao Li

  • On design of multi-cell thin-wall structures for crashworthiness

    Suzhen Wu;Gang Zheng;Guangyong Sun;Qiang Liu

  • Crashworthiness design of vehicle by using multiobjective robust optimization

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Shiwei Zhou;Hongzhou Li

  • On design of multi-cell tubes under axial and oblique impact loads

    Jianguang Fang;Jianguang Fang;Yunkai Gao;Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Na Qiu

  • Crashworthiness of vertex based hierarchical honeycombs in out-of-plane impact

    Guangyong Sun;Hao Jiang;Jianguang Fang;Guangyao Li

  • Crashworthiness optimization of foam-filled tapered thin-walled structure using multiple surrogate models

    Xueguan Song;Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Weizhao Gao

  • Dynamic crashing behavior of new extrudable multi-cell tubes with a functionally graded thickness

    Jianguang Fang;Jianguang Fang;Yunkai Gao;Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Gang Zheng

  • Parameterization of criss-cross configurations for multiobjective crashworthiness optimization

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Tong Pang;Jianguang Fang;Guangyao Li

  • On hierarchical honeycombs under out-of-plane crushing

    Jianguang Fang;Jianguang Fang;Guangyong Sun;Na Qiu;Tong Pang

  • Low velocity impact behavior of interlayer hybrid composite laminates with carbon/glass/basalt fibres

    Dongdong Chen;Quantian Luo;Maozhou Meng;Qing Li

  • On the crashworthiness of thin-walled multi-cell structures and materials: State of the art and prospects

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  • Optimization of foam-filled bitubal structures for crashworthiness criteria

    Yong Zhang;Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Zhen Luo

  • Out-of-plane crashworthiness of bio-inspired self-similar regular hierarchical honeycombs

    Yong Zhang;Minghao Lu;Chun H. Wang;Guangyong Sun

  • Multiobjective robust optimization method for drawbead design in sheet metal forming

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Zhihui Gong;Xiangyang Cui

  • A two-stage multi-fidelity optimization procedure for honeycomb-type cellular materials

    Guangyong Sun;Guangyong Sun;Guangyao Li;Michael Stone;Qing Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Guangyao Li
Guangyao Li Hunan University
Jianguang Fang
Jianguang Fang University of Technology Sydney
Xiaodong Huang
Xiaodong Huang Swinburne University of Technology
Junjia Cui
Junjia Cui Hunan University
Shiwei Zhou
Shiwei Zhou RMIT University
Paul K. Chu
Paul K. Chu City University of Hong Kong
Zhen Luo
Zhen Luo University of Technology Sydney
Chengqing Wu
Chengqing Wu University of Technology Sydney
Nam H. Kim
Nam H. Kim University of Florida
Quantian Luo
Quantian Luo University of Sydney

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