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2026

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Engineering and Technology

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123
Citations
105522
World Ranking
42
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17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award

Overview

James R. Rice is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific concentration in Geophysics.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Among their recent publications are two papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth:

  • "Influence of Fluid-Assisted Healing on Fault Permeability Structure," 2020
  • "Effect of Permeability Evolution in Fault Damage Zones on Earthquake Recurrence," 2021

These papers contribute to the understanding of fault permeability and earthquake processes, reflecting a focus on the physical properties and behavior of fault zones.

James R. Rice frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Alissar Yehya
  • Zhuo Yang
  • Tajudeen M. Iwalewa

Their publications have mainly appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, indicating a consistent engagement with this venue for disseminating research findings.

Best Publications

  • A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks

    J. R. Rice

  • On the ductile enlargement of voids in triaxial stress fields

    J.R. Rice;D.M. Tracey

  • Plane strain deformation near a crack tip in a power-law hardening material

    J.R. Rice;G.F. Rosengren

  • CONDITIONS FOR THE LOCALIZATION OF DEFORMATION IN PRESSURE-SENSITIVE DILATANT MATERIALS

    J.W. Rudnicki;J.R. Rice

  • Elastic Fracture Mechanics Concepts for Interfacial Cracks

    J. R. Rice

  • Some basic stress diffusion solutions for fluid-saturated elastic porous media with compressible constituents

    James R. Rice;Michael P. Cleary

  • Slightly curved or kinked cracks

    B. Cotterell;J.R. Rice

  • Elementary engineering fracture mechanics

    David Broek;James R. Rice

  • Inelastic constitutive relations for solids: An internal-variable theory and its application to metal plasticity

    J.R. Rice

  • Mechanics of Brittle Fracture

    G. P. Cherepanov;A. L. Peabody;R. DeWit;W. C. Cooley

  • Ductile versus brittle behaviour of crystals

    James R. Rice;Robb Thomson

  • ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITICAL TENSILE STRESS AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IN MILD STEEL

    R.O. Ritchie;J.F. Knott;J.R. Rice

  • Dislocation nucleation from a crack tip : an analysis based on the Peierls concept

    James R. Rice

  • THE LOCALIZATION OF PLASTIC DEFORMATION

    James R. Rice

  • Plane Problems of Cracks in Dissimilar Media

    J. R. Rice;G. C. Sih

  • Strain localization in ductile single crystals

    R.J. Asaro;J.R. Rice

  • Constitutive analysis of elastic-plastic crystals at arbitrary strain

    R. Hill;J.R. Rice

  • Heating and weakening of faults during earthquake slip

    James R. Rice

  • Some remarks on elastic crack-tip stress fields

    James R. Rice

  • Stability of Steady Frictional Slipping

    J. R. Rice;A. L. Ruina

  • PLANE STRAIN DEFORMATION NEAR A CRACK TIP IN A POWER LAW

    J. R. Rice;G. F. Rosengren

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Rudnicki
John W. Rudnicki Northwestern University
Victor C. Tsai
Victor C. Tsai Brown University
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Yehuda Ben-Zion University of Southern California
Victor C. Li
Victor C. Li University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul C. Paris
Paul C. Paris Washington University in St. Louis
Bernard Budiansky
Bernard Budiansky Harvard University
Alan Needleman
Alan Needleman Texas A&M University
John W. Hutchinson
John W. Hutchinson Harvard University
Robert M. McMeeking
Robert M. McMeeking University of California, Santa Barbara

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