2026 Michael D. Uchic: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	42	12455	12046	2856	2656	140	13278

Overview

Michael D. Uchic is affiliated with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their main research topics include:

Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses
Machine Learning in Materials Science
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies

Michael D. Uchic has published extensively in various scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation
Tomography of Materials and Structures
JOM
Ultramicroscopy
Physical Review Applied

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of their work and include:

AFRL Additive Manufacturing Modeling Series: Challenge 4, 3D Reconstruction of an IN625 High-Energy Diffraction Microscopy Sample Using Multi-modal Serial Sectioning (2021, Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation)
Application of Serial Sectioning to Evaluate the Performance of x-ray Computed Tomography for Quantitative Porosity Measurements in Additively Manufactured Metals (2021, JOM)
High-precision orientation mapping from spherical harmonic transform indexing of electron backscatter diffraction patterns (2020, Ultramicroscopy)
Equiaxed Polycrystalline Ice for Ultrasonic Testing of Solids (2022, Physical Review Applied)
Correlative X-ray Computed Tomography and Optical Microscopy Serial Sectioning Data of Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V (2024, Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation)

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

Michael Chapman
Bryce Jolley
Daniel Sparkman
Paul A. Shade
Edwin J. Schwalbach

Best Publications

Sample dimensions influence strength and crystal plasticity.

Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk;Jeffrey N. Florando;William D. Nix

2790
Citations
Exploration and Development of High Entropy Alloys for Structural Applications

Daniel B. Miracle;Jonathan D. Miller;Oleg N. Senkov;Christopher Woodward

1029
Citations
Plasticity of Micrometer-Scale Single Crystals in Compression

Michael D. Uchic;Paul A. Shade;Dennis M. Dimiduk

898
Citations
Size-affected single-slip behavior of pure nickel microcrystals

D.M. Dimiduk;M.D. Uchic;T.A. Parthasarathy

868
Citations
Scale-Free Intermittent Flow in Crystal Plasticity

Dennis M. Dimiduk;Chris Woodward;Richard LeSar;Michael D. Uchic

697
Citations
Contribution to size effect of yield strength from the stochastics of dislocation source lengths in finite samples

Triplicane A. Parthasarathy;Satish I. Rao;Dennis M. Dimiduk;Michael D. Uchic

622
Citations
A methodology to investigate size scale effects in crystalline plasticity using uniaxial compression testing

Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk

546
Citations
3D reconstruction and characterization of polycrystalline microstructures using a FIB-SEM system

M.A. Groeber;B.K. Haley;M.D. Uchic;D.M. Dimiduk

399
Citations
A framework for automated analysis and simulation of 3D polycrystalline microstructures.: Part 1: Statistical characterization

Michael Groeber;Somnath Ghosh;Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk

383
Citations
Dislocation structures and their relationship to strength in deformed nickel microcrystals

D.M. Norfleet;D.M. Dimiduk;S.J. Polasik;M.D. Uchic

377
Citations
Transformation-induced plasticity during pseudoelastic deformation in Ni–Ti microcrystals

D.M. Norfleet;P.M. Sarosi;S. Manchiraju;M.F.-X. Wagner

356
Citations
Athermal mechanisms of size-dependent crystal flow gleaned from three-dimensional discrete dislocation simulations

S.I. Rao;D.M. Dimiduk;T.A. Parthasarathy;M.D. Uchic

351
Citations
3D microstructural characterization of nickel superalloys via serial-sectioning using a dual beam FIB-SEM

Michael D. Uchic;Michael A. Groeber;Dennis M. Dimiduk;J.P. Simmons

343
Citations
Three-dimensional microstructural characterization using focused ion beam tomography

Michael D. Uchic;Lorenz Holzer;Beverley J. Inkson;Edward L. Principe

281
Citations
A framework for automated analysis and simulation of 3D polycrystalline microstructures. Part 2: Synthetic structure generation

Michael Groeber;Somnath Ghosh;Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk

281
Citations
Microstructurally based cross-slip mechanisms and their effects on dislocation microstructure evolution in fcc crystals

Ahmed M. Hussein;Satish I. Rao;Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk

208
Citations
Estimating the strength of single-ended dislocation sources in micron-sized single crystals

S. I. Rao;D. M. Dimiduk;M. Tang;T. A. Parthasarathy

204
Citations
Quasi-periodic events in crystal plasticity and the self-organized avalanche oscillator.

Stefanos Papanikolaou;Dennis M. Dimiduk;Woosong Choi;James P. Sethna

195
Citations
Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox

Ian M. Robertson;Christopher A. Schuh;John S. Vetrano;Nigel D. Browning

130
Citations
3D polycrystalline microstructure reconstruction from FIB generated serial sections for FE analysis

Y. Bhandari;S. Sarkar;M. Groeber;M.D. Uchic

129
Citations
Application of micro-sample testing to study fundamental aspects of plastic flow

Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk;Robert Wheeler;Paul A. Shade

126
Citations
Deriving grain boundary character distributions and relative grain boundary energies from three-dimensional EBSD data

G. S. Rohrer;J. Li;S. Lee;A. D. Rollett

118
Citations