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D-Index
40
Citations
5967
World Ranking
2037
National Ranking
757

K. Sadananda 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 K. Sadananda sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 177 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

K. Sadananda 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 K. Sadananda 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: 40 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

K. Sadananda is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans engineering and materials science, with a focus on mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, metals and alloys, civil and structural engineering, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's work largely centers on fatigue and fracture mechanics, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals, concrete corrosion and durability, non-destructive testing techniques, probabilistic and robust engineering design, corrosion behavior and inhibition, and high temperature alloys and creep.

Frequent publication venues for K. Sadananda include:

  • International Journal of Fatigue
  • Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
  • Corrosion Reviews
  • Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
  • Crystals

K. Sadananda has collaborated multiple times with several coauthors, including:

  • A.K. Vasudévan
  • Nagaraja Iyyer
  • M. Nani Babu
  • Daniel Kujawski
  • Nam Phan

Selected recent publications by K. Sadananda are as follows:

  • Sacrificial Zn-Ni coatings by electroplating and hydrogen embrittlement of high-strength steels, 2021, Corrosion Reviews
  • Analysis of pit to crack transition under corrosion fatigue & the safe-life approach using the modified Kitagawa-Takahashi diagram, 2020, International Journal of Fatigue
  • Analysis of the Crack Initiation and Growth in Crystalline Materials Using Discrete Dislocations and the Modified Kitagawa-Takahashi Diagram, 2020, Crystals
  • Failure diagrams for subcritical crack growth, 2022, International Journal of Fatigue

The scientist's research contributions are distributed across significant topics related to material fatigue and corrosion, with publications addressing hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion fatigue mechanisms and their impact on structural materials.

Best Publications

  • A REVIEW OF CRACK CLOSURE, FATIGUE CRACK THRESHOLD AND RELATED PHENOMENA

    A.K. Vasudeven;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Residual stress effects on near-threshold fatigue crack growth in friction stir welds in aerospace alloys

    R John;K.V Jata;K Sadananda

  • Analysis of overload effects and related phenomena

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan;R.L Holtz;E.U Lee

  • Critical parameters for fatigue damage

    A.K Vasudevan;K Sadananda;G Glinka

  • Crack tip driving forces and crack growth representation under fatigue

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan

  • Fatigue crack growth mechanisms in steels

    K. Sadananda;A.K. Vasudevan

  • A theoretical evaluation of crack closure

    N. Louat;K. Sadananda;M. Duesbery;A. K. Vasudevan

  • Fatigue crack growth behavior of titanium alloys

    K. Sadananda;A.K. Vasudevan

  • Short crack growth and internal stresses

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan

  • Fatigue thresholds of Ni-Ti alloy near the shape memory transition temperature

    R.L. Holtz;K. Sadananda;M.A. Imam

  • Creep and fatigue properties of high temperature silicides and their composites

    K. Sadananda;C.R. Feng;R. Mitra;S.C. Deevi

  • Creep of molybdenum disilicide composites

    K. Sadananda;C.R. Feng;H. Jones;J. Petrovic

  • Classification of fatigue crack growth behavior

    A. K. Vasudévan;K. Sadananda

  • Dislocation network formation and coherency loss around gamma- prime precipitates in a nickel- base superalloy

    A. K. Singh;N. Louat;K. Sadananda

  • Two critical stress intensities for threshold fatigue crack propagation

    A.K. Vasudévan;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Strain profiling of fatigue crack overload effects using energy dispersive X-ray diffraction

    M. Croft;M. Croft;Z. Zhong;N. Jisrawi;I. Zakharchenko

  • A review of fatigue crack growth resistance in the short crack growth regime

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  • Creep crack growth in alloy 718

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  • Review of the fracture mechanics approach to creep crack growth in structural alloys

    K. Sadananda;P. Shahinian

  • Prediction of threshold stress intensity for fatigue crack growth using a dislocation model

    K. Sadananda;P. Shahinian

  • Reconsideration of fatigue crack closure

    A.K. Vasudevan;K. Sadananda;N. Louat

  • Role of microstructures on the growth of long fatigue cracks

    A.K Vasudevan;K Sadananda;K Rajan

  • Extension of the Unified Approach to fatigue crack growth to environmental interactions

    K Sadananda;A.K Vasudevan;R.L Holtz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Croft
Mark Croft Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Krishna Rajan
Krishna Rajan University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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