2026 Olivier A. Bauchau: 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	39	2101	1953	776	681	254	7138

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Olivier A. Bauchau is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on engineering with a significant emphasis on control and systems engineering.

Their recent research contributions include:

Modeling viscoelastic behavior in flexible multibody systems (2020, Multibody System Dynamics)
Modal reduction procedures for flexible multibody dynamics (2020, Multibody System Dynamics)
Simulation and stability analysis of periodic flexible multibody systems (2020, Multibody System Dynamics)
Configurational forces in variable-length beams for flexible multibody dynamics (2022, Multibody System Dynamics)
Evaluation of High-Fidelity Multidisciplinary Sensitivity-Analysis Framework for Multipoint Rotorcraft Optimization (2020, Journal of Aircraft)

Bauchau has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Shilei Han
Valentin Sonneville
Nishant Nemani
Matteo Scapolan
Minghe Shan

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent publication venues being:

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (7 publications)
Multibody System Dynamics (4 publications)
Journal of Aircraft
Research Square
Applied Mechanics

Their scholarly work spans the primary field of engineering, with subfields including:

Control and Systems Engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Computational Mechanics
Civil and Structural Engineering
Numerical Analysis

The main topics addressed in their research are:

Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis
Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics
Numerical methods for differential equations
Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Bauchau was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2008.

Best Publications

Flexible multibody dynamics

Olivier Andre Bauchau

681
Citations
Structural Analysis: With Applications to Aerospace Structures

Olivier Andre Bauchau;J. I. Craig

409
Citations
Euler-Bernoulli beam theory

Olivier Bauchau;J.I. Craig

319
Citations
Modeling of joints with clearance in flexible multibody systems

Olivier A. Bauchau;Jesus Rodriguez

269
Citations
Modeling rotorcraft dynamics with finite element multibody procedures

O. A. Bauchau;C. L. Bottasso;Y. G. Nikishkov

269
Citations
Review of Classical Approaches for Constraint Enforcement in Multibody Systems

André Laulusa;Olivier A. Bauchau

248
Citations
Review of Contemporary Approaches for Constraint Enforcement in Multibody Systems

Olivier A. Bauchau;André Laulusa

226
Citations
The Vectorial Parameterization of Rotation

Olivier A. Bauchau;Lorenzo Trainelli

220
Citations
Computational Schemes for Flexible, Nonlinear Multi-Body Systems

Olivier A. Bauchau

198
Citations
Nonlinear Composite Beam Theory

Olivier Bauchau;C.H. Hong

181
Citations
A Beam Theory for Anisotropic Materials

Olivier Bauchau

172
Citations
A Multibody Formulation for Helicopter Structural Dynamic Analysis

Olivier Bauchau;N.K. Kang

153
Citations
On the design of energy preserving and decaying schemes for flexible, nonlinear multi-body systems

Olivier A. Bauchau;Carlo L. Bottasso

141
Citations
Robust integration schemes for flexible multibody systems

Olivier A. Bauchau;Carlo L. Bottasso;Lorenzo Trainelli

135
Citations
Numerical integration of non‐linear elastic multi‐body systems

Olivier Bauchau;G. Damilano;N.J. Theron

131
Citations
Large displacement analysis of naturally curved and twisted composite beams

O. A. Bauchau;C. H. Hong

129
Citations
Recent Improvements to a Hybrid Method for Rotors in Forward Flight

Zhong Yang;Lakshmi N. Sankar;Marilyn J. Smith;Oliver Bauchau

115
Citations
Energy decaying scheme for non-linear beam models

Olivier Bauchau;Nicolaas J. Theron

115
Citations
Finite Element Approach to Rotor Blade Modeling

Olivier A. Bauchau;Chang-Hee Hong

99
Citations
Efficient Simulation of a Dynamic System with LuGre Friction

Nguyen B. Do;Aldo A. Ferri;Olivier A. Bauchau

92
Citations
Multibody System Dynamics

Seundo Heo;Olivier Bauchau

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo L. Bottasso Technical University of Munich

Massimo Ruzzene University of Colorado Boulder

Aki Mikkola Lappeenranta University of Technology

Alberto Cardona National University of the Littoral

Mark S. Shephard Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Ahmed A. Shabana University of Illinois at Chicago

Peter Betsch Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Suresh Menon Georgia Institute of Technology

Dewey H. Hodges Georgia Institute of Technology

Bruno Siciliano University of Naples Federico II

External Links

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