2026 Michael R Wisnom: 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	87	135	122	5	4	461	20490
Materials Science	86	2112	2038	91	86	446	20010

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Michael R Wisnom is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions in mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, polymers and plastics, civil and structural engineering, and materials chemistry.

The main areas of study in their work include the mechanical behavior of composites, fiber-reinforced polymer composites, textile materials and evaluations, epoxy resin curing processes, fatigue and fracture mechanics, structural analysis of composite materials, and cellular and composite structures.

Frequent publication venues for their research are as follows:

Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing
Composite Structures
Composites Science and Technology
Composites Communications
Composites Part B Engineering

Among their recent scholarly papers are:

A comparative study on glass and carbon fibre reinforced laminated composites in scaled quasi-static indentation tests, 2020, Composite Structures
Effect of out-of-plane wrinkles in curved multi-directional carbon/epoxy laminates, 2020, Composites Science and Technology
High performance quasi-isotropic thin-ply carbon/glass hybrid composites with pseudo-ductile behaviour loaded off-axis, 2020, Composite Structures
In situ characterization of trans-laminar fracture toughness using X-ray Computed Tomography, 2020, Composites Communications
Delamination suppression in tapered unidirectional laminates with multiple ply drops using a tape scarfing technique, 2021, Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing

Michael R Wisnom frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

Xiaodong Xu
Meisam Jalalvand
Mohamad Fotouhi
Stephen R. Hallett
Xun Wu

In recognition of their professional achievements, Michael R Wisnom was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2015.

Best Publications

An experimental and numerical investigation into the damage mechanisms in notched composites

Stephen R Hallett;Ben G Green;WG Jiang;Michael R Wisnom

484
Citations
An experimental investigation into the tensile strength scaling of notched composites

BG Green;Michael R Wisnom;Stephen R Hallett

465
Citations
Variability, fibre waviness and misalignment in the determination of the properties of composite materials and structures

Kevin D Potter;B Khan;Michael R Wisnom;T Bell

428
Citations
Mechanisms generating residual stresses and distortion during manufacture of polymer-matrix composite structures

M.R. Wisnom;M. Gigliotti;N. Ersoy;M. Campbell

419
Citations
Size effects in the testing of fibre-composite materials

Michael R Wisnom

403
Citations
Demonstration of pseudo-ductility in high performance glass-epoxy composites by hybridisation with thin-ply carbon prepreg

Gergely Czel;Michael R Wisnom

390
Citations
A concise interface constitutive law for analysis of delamination and splitting in composite materials and its application to scaled notched tensile specimens

Wen-Guang Jiang;Stephen R. Hallett;Ben G. Green;Michael R. Wisnom

358
Citations
The role of delamination in failure of fibre-reinforced composites

Michael R Wisnom

357
Citations
Size effects in unnotched tensile strength of unidirectional and quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy composites

Michael R Wisnom;B Khan;Stephen R Hallett

317
Citations
Modelling the interaction between matrix cracks and delamination damage in scaled quasi-isotropic specimens

Stephen R. Hallett;Wen-Guang Jiang;Bijoysri Khan;Michael R. Wisnom

243
Citations
In-situ measurement of chemical shrinkage of MY750 epoxy resin by a novel gravimetric method

Chun Li;Kevin Potter;Michael R Wisnom;Graeme Stringer

237
Citations
Damage analysis of pseudo-ductile thin-ply UD hybrid composites - A new analytical method

Meisam Jalalvand;Gergely Czél;Michael R. Wisnom

236
Citations
The compressive strength of articular cartilage

A J Kerin;M R Wisnom;M A Adams

231
Citations
The role of delamination in strength, failure mechanism and hole size effect in open hole tensile tests on quasi-isotropic laminates

Michael R. Wisnom;Stephen R. Hallett

229
Citations
A novel manufacturing method for aligned discontinuous fibre composites (High Performance-Discontinuous Fibre method)

HaNa Yu;Kevin D Potter;Michael R Wisnom

218
Citations
A combined stress-based and fracture-mechanics-based model for predicting delamination in composites

Weicheng Cui;M.R. Wisnom

217
Citations
Reduction in interlaminar shear strength by discrete and distributed voids

Michael R. Wisnom;Tom Reynolds;Nigel Gwilliam

217
Citations
Modelling discrete failures in composites with interface elements

Michael R Wisnom

215
Citations
Scaling effects in notched composites

Michael R Wisnom;Stephen R Hallett;C. Soutis

211
Citations
28th European Rotorcraft Forum

Michael R Wisnom;Gfj Hill;Mike I Jones

120
Citations
48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

MH Phan;H-X Peng;Michael R Wisnom;Phil Mellor

95
Citations
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

John Botsis;Thomas Gmuer;Michael R. Wisnom;Fabrice Pierron

85
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Hallett University of Bristol

Kevin D Potter University of Bristol

Fabrice Pierron University of Southampton

Michael I. Friswell Swansea University

Paul D. Wilcox University of Bristol

Manh-Huong Phan University of South Florida

Hua-Xin Peng University of Bristol

Robert D. Adams University of Bristol

Bruce W. Drinkwater University of Bristol

Javier Llorca Technical University of Madrid

External Links

Personal website of Michael R Wisnom

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