2026 John E. Dolbow: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	43	1673	1551	643	561	98	18829

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

John E. Dolbow is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Materials Chemistry, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including numerical methods in engineering, fatigue and fracture mechanics, rock mechanics and modeling, metallurgy and material forming, metal forming simulation techniques, solidification and crystal growth phenomena, and high-velocity impact and material behavior.

Dolbow has contributed to a number of recent papers, among which are:

A phase-field model of fracture with frictionless contact and random fracture properties: Application to thin-film fracture and soil desiccation (2020), published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
A variational phase-field model for ductile fracture with coalescence dissipation (2021), Computational Mechanics
An extended/generalized phase-field finite element method for crack growth with global-local enrichment (2020), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Classical variational phase-field models cannot predict fracture nucleation (2024), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
The strength of the Brazilian fracture test (2023), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Tianchen Hu, André Costa, Yangyuanchen Liu, and Johann Guilleminot.

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Over the course of their career, John E. Dolbow has been recognized by the International Association for Computational Mechanics, having been named a Fellow in 2014.

Best Publications

A finite element method for crack growth without remeshing

Nicolas Moës;John Dolbow;Ted Belytschko

8302
Citations
Arbitrary branched and intersecting cracks with the eXtended Finite Element Method

Christophe Daux;Nicolas Moës;John Dolbow;Natarajan Sukumar

1344
Citations
An extended finite element method for modeling crack growth with frictional contact

John Dolbow;Nicolas Moës;Ted Belytschko

795
Citations
Discontinuous enrichment in finite elements with a partition of unity method

John Dolbow;Nicolas Moës;Ted Belytschko

639
Citations
Numerical integration of the Galerkin weak form in meshfree methods

John Dolbow;Ted Belytschko

586
Citations
An introduction to programming the meshless Element F reeGalerkin method

J. Dolbow;Ted Belytschko

533
Citations
ON THE COMPLETENESS OF MESHFREE PARTICLE METHODS

T. Belytschko;Y. Krongauz;J. Dolbow;C. Gerlach

430
Citations
Modeling fracture in Mindlin–Reissner plates with the extended finite element method

John Dolbow;Nicolas Moës;Ted Belytschko

361
Citations
Imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions with Nitsche's method and spline-based finite elements

Anand Embar;John Dolbow;Isaac Harari

355
Citations
An efficient finite element method for embedded interface problems

John Dolbow;Isaac Harari

325
Citations
On the computation of mixed-mode stress intensity factors in functionally graded materials

J.E. Dolbow;M. Gosz

315
Citations
Phase separation in biological membranes: integration of theory and experiment.

Elliot L. Elson;Eliot Fried;John E. Dolbow;Guy M. Genin

259
Citations
A robust Nitsche’s formulation for interface problems

Chandrasekhar Annavarapu;Martin Hautefeuille;John E. Dolbow

240
Citations
A phase-field formulation for dynamic cohesive fracture

Rudy J.M. Geelen;Yingjie Liu;Tianchen Hu;Michael R. Tupek

233
Citations
Domain integral formulation for stress intensity factor computation along curved three-dimensional interface cracks

M. Gosz;J. Dolbow;B. Moran

229
Citations
A hybrid extended finite element/level set method for modeling phase transformations

H. Ji;D. Chopp;J. E. Dolbow

228
Citations
On strategies for enforcing interfacial constraints and evaluating jump conditions with the extended finite element method

H. Ji;J. E. Dolbow

216
Citations
Design of stiff, tough and stretchy hydrogel composites via nanoscale hybrid crosslinking and macroscale fiber reinforcement

Shaoting Lin;Changyong Cao;Qiming Wang;Mark Gonzalez

210
Citations
Solving thermal and phase change problems with the eXtended finite element method

R. Merle;J. Dolbow

206
Citations
Chemically induced swelling of hydrogels

John E. Dolbow;Eliot Fried;Huidi Ji

195
Citations
Analysis of an efficient finite element method for embedded interface problems

Isaac Harari;John Dolbow

77
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Ted Belytschko Northwestern University

Nicolas Moës École Centrale de Nantes

Isaac Harari Tel Aviv University

Tod A. Laursen American University of Sharjah

Peter J. Mucha Dartmouth College

N. Sukumar University of California, Davis

John D. Albertson Cornell University

Stefan Zauscher Duke University

Xuanhe Zhao MIT

External Links

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