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D-Index
38
Citations
4216
World Ranking
2329
National Ranking
839

Oscar Lopez-Pamies 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 Oscar Lopez-Pamies sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 133 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Oscar Lopez-Pamies 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 Oscar Lopez-Pamies sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Revisiting nucleation in the phase-field approach to brittle fracture

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Polygonal finite elements for finite elasticity

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • A general hyperelastic model for incompressible fiber-reinforced elastomers

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

  • 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

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

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

  • On the two-potential constitutive modeling of rubber viscoelastic materials

    Aditya Kumar;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

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

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

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

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

  • Microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in finitely strained fiber-reinforced elastomers

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

  • Time and temperature dependent response and relaxation of a soft polymer

    Akhtar S. Khan;Oscar Lopez-Pamies

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

    Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

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

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

  • 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

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

    Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • Onset of Cavitation in Compressible, Isotropic, Hyperelastic Solids

    Oscar Lopez-Pamies

  • Cavitation in elastomeric solids: A defect-growth theory

    Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Martin Idiart;Toshio Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Ponte Castañeda
P. Ponte Castañeda University of Pennsylvania
Glaucio H. Paulino
Glaucio H. Paulino Princeton University
Nicolas Triantafyllidis
Nicolas Triantafyllidis École Polytechnique
Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar
Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar The University of Texas at Austin
Kostas Danas
Kostas Danas École Polytechnique
Akhtar S. Khan
Akhtar S. Khan University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Pedro Reis
Pedro Reis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi Harvard University
Javier Llorca
Javier Llorca Technical University of Madrid
Javier Segurado
Javier Segurado Technical University of Madrid

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