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D-Index
48
Citations
9812
World Ranking
1279
National Ranking
29

Michel Grédiac 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 Michel Grédiac sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 252 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michel Grédiac 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 Michel Grédiac sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michel Grédiac is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Computer Science, with substantial contributions to the subfields of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work focuses on several closely related topics including optical measurement and interference techniques, structural health monitoring techniques, advanced measurement and metrology techniques, advanced vision and imaging, image processing techniques and applications, advanced surface polishing techniques, and shape memory alloy transformations.

Michel Grédiac has published articles in various academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Strain
  • Optics and Lasers in Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Selected recent papers exemplify the scope of their work:

  • "Towards Material Testing 2.0. A review of test design for identification of constitutive parameters from full-field measurements" (2020, Strain)
  • "When Deep Learning Meets Digital Image Correlation" (2020, Optics and Lasers in Engineering)
  • "On the Optimal Pattern for Displacement Field Measurement: Random Speckle and DIC, or Checkerboard and LSA?" (2020, Experimental Mechanics)
  • "Towards Criteria Characterizing the Metrological Performance of Full-field Measurement Techniques" (2020, Experimental Mechanics)
  • "On Biases in Displacement Estimation for Image Registration, with a Focus on Photomechanics" (2021, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision)

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors including Benoît Blaysat, Frédéric Sur, Xavier Balandraud, Thomas Jailin, and Adrien Vinel.

Michel Grédiac's research is closely linked to advanced measurement and analysis techniques that combine optical methods with computational models for improved interpretation of structural and material behavior.

Best Publications

  • Overview of Identification Methods of Mechanical Parameters Based on Full-field Measurements

    Stéphane Avril;Marc Bonnet;Anne Sophie Bretelle;Michel Grediac

  • The Virtual Fields Method: Extracting Constitutive Mechanical Parameters from Full-field Deformation Measurements

    Fabrice Pierron;Michel Grédiac

  • The use of full-field measurement methods in composite material characterization: interest and limitations

    Michel Grédiac

  • The Virtual Fields Method

    Michel Grediac;Fabrice Pierron;Stéphane Avril;Evelyne Toussaint

  • The Virtual Fields Method for Extracting Constitutive Parameters From Full‐Field Measurements: a Review

    M. Grédiac;F. Pierron;S. Avril;E. Toussaint

  • A finite element study of the transverse shear in honeycomb cores

    M. Grediac

  • Applying the Virtual Fields Method to the identification of elasto-plastic constitutive parameters

    Michel Grédiac;Fabrice Pierron

  • Sensitivity of the virtual fields method to noisy data

    S. Avril;M. Grédiac;F. Pierron

  • Special virtual fields for the direct determination of material parameters with the virtual fields method. 1––Principle and definition

    Michel Grédiac;Evelyne Toussaint;Fabrice Pierron

  • The Grid Method for In‐plane Displacement and Strain Measurement: A Review and Analysis

    Michel Grediac;Frédéric Sur;Benoît Blaysat

  • Principe des travaux virtuels et identification

    M. Grediac

  • Towards standardized mechanical characterization of microbial biofilms: analysis and critical review

    Héloïse Boudarel;Jean-Denis Mathias;Benoît Blaysat;Michel Grédiac

  • Special virtual fields for the direct determination of material parameters with the virtual fields method. 2––Application to in-plane properties

    Michel Grédiac;Evelyne Toussaint;Fabrice Pierron

  • Full-Field Measurements and Identification in Solid Mechanics: Grédiac/Full-Field Measurements and Identification in Solid Mechanics

    Michel Grédiac;François Hild;André Pineau

  • A Numerical and Experimental Study of Woven Composite Pin-Joints

    F. Pierron;F. Cerisier;M. Grediac

  • PRODUCING AND TRANSFERRING LOW‐SPATIAL‐FREQUENCY GRIDS FOR MEASURING DISPLACEMENT FIELDS WITH MOIRÉ AND GRID METHODS

    J.‐L. Piro;M. Grédiac

  • The virtual fields method with piecewise virtual fields

    Evelyne Toussaint;Michel Grédiac;Fabrice Pierron;Fabrice Pierron

  • Direct Identification of Elastic Constants of Anisotropic Plates by Modal Analysis: Theoretical and Numerical Aspects

    M. Grédiac;P.A. Paris

  • Towards Material Testing 2.0. A review of test design for identification of constitutive parameters from full‐field measurements

    F. Pierron;M. Grédiac

  • Applying infrared thermography to study the heating of 2024-T3 aluminium specimens under fatigue loading

    M.L. Pastor;X. Balandraud;M. Grédiac;J.L. Robert

  • Investigation of the grid method for accurate in-plane strain measurement

    C Badulescu;M Grédiac;J D Mathias

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrice Pierron
Fabrice Pierron University of Southampton
François Hild
François Hild École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Stéphane Avril
Stéphane Avril École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Michel Bornert
Michel Bornert École des Ponts ParisTech
Maenghyo Cho
Maenghyo Cho Seoul National University
Heung Soo Kim
Heung Soo Kim Dongguk University
Julien Réthoré
Julien Réthoré École Centrale de Nantes
Xiaodong Li
Xiaodong Li University of Virginia
Michael A. Sutton
Michael A. Sutton University of South Carolina
Marc Dubois
Marc Dubois University of Clermont Auvergne

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