2026 Oscar Lopez-Pamies: 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	38	2326	2169	838	739	133	4216

Overview

Oscar Lopez-Pamies is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Materials Chemistry, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of study in their body of work include:

Composite Material Mechanics
Elasticity and Material Modeling
Numerical methods in engineering
Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Fatigue and fracture mechanics
Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Oscar Lopez-Pamies has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several notable venues. These include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Fracture
Journal of Elasticity

Their recent papers include:

"Revisiting nucleation in the phase-field approach to brittle fracture" (2020), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
"The poker-chip experiments of Gent and Lindley (1959) explained" (2021), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
"Elastomers filled with liquid inclusions: Theory, numerical implementation, and some basic results" (2022), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
"The phase-field approach to self-healable fracture of elastomers: A model accounting for fracture nucleation at large, with application to a class of conspicuous experiments" (2020), Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
"The effective shear modulus of a random isotropic suspension of monodisperse liquid n-spheres: from the dilute limit to the percolation threshold" (2022), Soft Matter

Frequent collaborators in their work include John E. Dolbow, Farhad Kamarei, Bhavesh Shrimali, Aditya Kumar, and Kamalendu Ghosh.

In addition to articles, Oscar Lopez-Pamies has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Vienna: Electro- and Magneto-Mechanics of Soft Solids (2024).

Best Publications

A new I1-based hyperelastic model for rubber elastic materials

Oscar Lopez-Pamies

219
Citations
Revisiting nucleation in the phase-field approach to brittle fracture

Aditya Kumar;Blaise Bourdin;Gilles A. Francfort;Gilles A. Francfort;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

196
Citations
Thermo-mechanical large deformation response and constitutive modeling of viscoelastic polymers over a wide range of strain rates and temperatures

Akhtar S. Khan;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Rehan Kazmi

196
Citations
Microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in finitely strained porous elastomers

Jean-Claude Michel;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Nicolas Triantafyllidis

144
Citations
Polygonal finite elements for finite elasticity

Heng Chi;Cameron Talischi;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Glaucio H.Paulino

140
Citations
On the overall behavior, microstructure evolution, and macroscopic stability in reinforced rubbers at large deformations: I—Theory

O. Lopez-Pamies;O. Lopez-Pamies;P. Ponte Castañeda;P. Ponte Castañeda

133
Citations
The nonlinear elastic response of suspensions of rigid inclusions in rubber: II—A simple explicit approximation for finite-concentration suspensions

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Taha Goudarzi;Kostas Danas

125
Citations
Cavitation in elastomeric solids: I—A defect-growth theory

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Martín I. Idiart;Martín I. Idiart;Toshio Nakamura

114
Citations
A general hyperelastic model for incompressible fiber-reinforced elastomers

M. Agoras;O. Lopez-Pamies;P. Ponte Castañeda

103
Citations
On the overall behavior, microstructure evolution, and macroscopic stability in reinforced rubbers at large deformations: II—Application to cylindrical fibers

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

102
Citations
Cavitation in rubber: an elastic instability or a fracture phenomenon?

Victor Lefèvre;Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

101
Citations
On the two-potential constitutive modeling of rubber viscoelastic materials

Aditya Kumar;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

100
Citations
Fracture and healing of elastomers: A phase-transition theory and numerical implementation

Aditya Kumar;Gilles A. Francfort;Gilles A. Francfort;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

98
Citations
Damage in elastomers: nucleation and growth of cavities, micro-cracks, and macro-cracks

X. Poulain;Victor Lefevre;O. Lopez-Pamies;K. Ravi-Chandar

97
Citations
Microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in finitely strained fiber-reinforced elastomers

Jean-Claude Michel;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Nicolas Triantafyllidis;Nicolas Triantafyllidis

93
Citations
Time and temperature dependent response and relaxation of a soft polymer

Akhtar S. Khan;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

88
Citations
Second-Order Estimates for the Macroscopic Response and Loss of Ellipticity in Porous Rubbers at Large Deformations

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

84
Citations
Cavitation in elastomeric solids: II—Onset-of-cavitation surfaces for Neo-Hookean materials

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Toshio Nakamura;Martín I. Idiart;Martín I. Idiart

77
Citations
A general result for the magnetoelastic response of isotropic suspensions of iron and ferrofluid particles in rubber, with applications to spherical and cylindrical specimens

Victor Lefèvre;Kostas Danas;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

75
Citations
Homogenization-based constitutive models for porous elastomers and implications for macroscopic instabilities: I—Analysis

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

66
Citations
Onset of Cavitation in Compressible, Isotropic, Hyperelastic Solids

Oscar Lopez-Pamies

63
Citations
Cavitation in elastomeric solids: A defect-growth theory

Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Martin Idiart;Toshio Nakamura

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Ponte Castañeda University of Pennsylvania

Nicolas Triantafyllidis École Polytechnique

Glaucio H. Paulino Princeton University

Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar The University of Texas at Austin

Akhtar S. Khan University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Pedro Reis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Katia Bertoldi Harvard University

Javier Llorca Technical University of Madrid

Javier Segurado Technical University of Madrid

Dennis M. Kochmann ETH Zurich

External Links

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