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Michael D. Uchic publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael D. Uchic sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 140 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Michael D. Uchic D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael D. Uchic sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

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

  • Exploration and Development of High Entropy Alloys for Structural Applications

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

  • Plasticity of Micrometer-Scale Single Crystals in Compression

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

  • Size-affected single-slip behavior of pure nickel microcrystals

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

  • Scale-Free Intermittent Flow in Crystal Plasticity

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

  • 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

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

    Michael D. Uchic;Dennis M. Dimiduk

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

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

  • 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

  • Dislocation structures and their relationship to strength in deformed nickel microcrystals

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Three-dimensional microstructural characterization using focused ion beam tomography

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis M. Dimiduk
Dennis M. Dimiduk The Ohio State University
Christopher Woodward
Christopher Woodward United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Triplicane A. Parthasarathy
Triplicane A. Parthasarathy United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Dennis M. Dimiduk
Dennis M. Dimiduk The Ohio State University
Michael J. Mills
Michael J. Mills The Ohio State University
Somnath Ghosh
Somnath Ghosh Johns Hopkins University
Hamish L. Fraser
Hamish L. Fraser The Ohio State University
Anthony D. Rollett
Anthony D. Rollett Carnegie Mellon University
Tresa M. Pollock
Tresa M. Pollock University of California, Santa Barbara
William D. Nix
William D. Nix Stanford University

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