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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
85
Citations
25319
World Ranking
151
National Ranking
75

Materials Science

D-Index
89
Citations
26748
World Ranking
1799
National Ranking
549

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ken Gall is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily within the fields of Engineering and Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Rheumatology.

Their research encompasses a range of main topics including:

  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
  • Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes

Frequent venues for their publications include journals specializing largely in biomedical materials, additive manufacturing, and medical fields. The most common venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (7 publications)
  • Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials (5 publications)
  • Additive Manufacturing (3 publications)
  • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (3 publications)
  • Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics (3 publications)

Ken Gall has worked closely with several coauthors across many publications. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Cambre Kelly
  • Alina Kirillova
  • Samuel B. Adams
  • Bijan Abar
  • Nicholas B. Allen

Some recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Ken Gall include:

  • "Fabrication of Biomedical Scaffolds Using Biodegradable Polymers," 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • "A Synthetic Hydrogel Composite with the Mechanical Behavior and Durability of Cartilage," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "High-strength, porous additively manufactured implants with optimized mechanical osseointegration," 2021, Biomaterials
  • "Helmet Modification to PPE With 3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Duke University Medical Center: A Novel Technique," 2020, The Journal of Arthroplasty
  • "From bottle to microplastics: Can we estimate how our plastic products are breaking down?," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Thermomechanics of shape memory polymers: Uniaxial experiments and constitutive modeling

    Yiping Liu;Ken Gall;Martin L. Dunn;Alan R. Greenberg

  • Temperature and strain-rate dependence of surface dislocation nucleation.

    Ting Zhu;Ju Li;Amit Samanta;Austin Leach

  • Unconstrained Recovery Characterization of Shape-Memory Polymer Networks for Cardiovascular Applications

    Christopher Michael Yakacki;Robin Shandas;Robin Shandas;Craig Lanning;Bryan Rech

  • Surface-stress-induced phase transformation in metal nanowires.

    Jiankuai Diao;Ken Gall;Martin L. Dunn

  • Stress-induced chemical detection using flexible metal-organic frameworks.

    Mark D Allendorf;Ronald J T Houk;Leanne Andruszkiewicz;A Alec Talin

  • Shape memory polymer nanocomposites

    Ken Gall;Martin L. Dunn;Yiping Liu;Dudley Finch

  • Cyclic deformation mechanisms in precipitated NiTi shape memory alloys

    K Gall;H.J Maier

  • Tension–compression asymmetry of the stress–strain response in aged single crystal and polycrystalline NiTi

    Ken Gall;Huseyin Sehitoglu;Y.I. Chumlyakov;Irina Kireeva

  • Deformation of single crystal hadfield steel by twinning and slip

    I Karaman;H Sehitoglu;K Gall;Y.I Chumlyakov

  • Microstructure-based fatigue modeling of cast A356-T6 alloy

    D.L McDowell;K Gall;M.F Horstemeyer;J Fan

  • Strong, Tailored, Biocompatible Shape-Memory Polymer Networks.

    Christopher M. Yakacki;Robin Shandas;David Safranski;Alicia M. Ortega

  • The role of texture in tension–compression asymmetry in polycrystalline NiTi

    Ken Gall;Huseyin Sehitoglu

  • Atomistic simulation of the structure and elastic properties of gold nanowires

    Jiankuai Diao;Ken Gall;Martin L. Dunn

  • Thermomechanics of the shape memory effect in polymers for biomedical applications

    Ken Gall;Christopher M. Yakacki;Yiping Liu;Robin Shandas;Robin Shandas

  • Deformation of FCC nanowires by twinning and slip

    Harold S. Park;Ken Gall;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

  • Shape memory and pseudoelasticity in metal nanowires.

    Harold S. Park;Ken Gall;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

  • Compressive response of NiTi single crystals

    H. Sehitoglu;I. Karaman;R. Anderson;X. Zhang

  • The Strength of Gold Nanowires

    Ken Gall;Jiankuai Diao;Martin L. Dunn

  • Thermomechanics of shape memory polymer nanocomposites

    Yiping Liu;Ken Gall;Martin L Dunn;Patrick McCluskey

  • Finite strain 3D thermoviscoelastic constitutive model for shape memory polymers

    Julie Diani;Yiping Liu;Ken Gall

  • Atomistic simulations of the yielding of gold nanowires

    Jiankuai Diao;Ken Gall;Martin L. Dunn;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Jürgen Maier
Hans Jürgen Maier University of Hannover
Christopher M. Yakacki
Christopher M. Yakacki Lockheed Martin (United States)
Huseyin Sehitoglu
Huseyin Sehitoglu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David L. McDowell
David L. McDowell Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark F. Horstemeyer
Mark F. Horstemeyer Liberty University
Martin L. Dunn
Martin L. Dunn University of Colorado Denver
Ibrahim Karaman
Ibrahim Karaman Texas A&M University
Taylor H. Ware
Taylor H. Ware The University of Texas at Dallas
Steven M. George
Steven M. George University of Colorado Boulder
Reginald DesRoches
Reginald DesRoches Rice University

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