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2026

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D-Index
89
Citations
35833
World Ranking
122
National Ranking
4

Peter Wriggers 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 Peter Wriggers sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 684 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Wriggers 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 Peter Wriggers 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: 89 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - Euler Medal, European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Peter Wriggers is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on mechanics and computational mechanics. Their research encompasses core areas such as Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The principal topics covered in Wriggers' work include numerical methods in engineering, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, elasticity and material modeling, contact mechanics and variational inequalities, mechanical stress and fatigue analysis, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, and metal forming simulation techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wriggers include:

  • A machine learning based plasticity model using proper orthogonal decomposition, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • The neural particle method - An updated Lagrangian physics informed neural network for computational fluid dynamics, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • A general phase-field model for fatigue failure in brittle and ductile solids, 2021, Computational Mechanics
  • A fatigue damage accumulation model for reliability analysis of engine components under combined cycle loadings, 2020, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
  • A Selection of Benchmark Problems in Solid Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 2020, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Wriggers has published frequently in the following journals and venues:

  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wriggers include:

  • Fadi Aldakheel
  • Blaž Hudobivnik
  • Philipp Junker
  • Michele Marino
  • Hans Jürgen Maier

Wriggers has contributed to book publications with recognized academic publishers, including Springer Nature and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Titles include "Non-standard Discretisation Methods in Solid Mechanics" (2022) and "Virtual design and validationLecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics (LNACM, volume 93)" (2020).

Throughout their career, Wriggers has received awards such as the Euler Medal from the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) in 2008 and was named Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Computational Contact Mechanics

    Peter Wriggers

  • Computational Contact Mechanics

    P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • Nonlinear Finite Element Methods

    Peter Wriggers

  • Mesoscale models for concrete: homogenisation and damage behaviour

    P. Wriggers;S. O. Moftah

  • An Introduction to Computational Micromechanics

    Tarek I. Zohdi;Peter Wriggers

  • A perturbed Lagrangian formulation for the finite element solution of contact problems

    Juan C. Simo;Peter Wriggers;Robert L. Taylor

  • Nichtlineare Finite-Element-Methoden

    Peter Wriggers

  • FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION OF LARGE DEFORMATION IMPACT-CONTACT PROBLEMS WITH FRICTION

    P. Wriggers;T. Vu Van;E. Stein

  • Finite Element Algorithms for Contact Problems

    P. Wriggers

  • Nonlinear finite element analysis of solids and structures

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  • Contact treatment in isogeometric analysis with NURBS

    Ilker Temizer;P. Wriggers;Thomas J Hughes

  • A general procedure for the direct computation of turning and bifurcation points

    P. Wriggers;J. C. Simo

  • A large deformation frictional contact formulation using NURBS‐based isogeometric analysis

    L. De Lorenzis;I. Temizer;P. Wriggers;G. Zavarise

  • A virtual element method for contact

    P. Wriggers;W. T. Rust;B. D. Reddy

  • Automation of Finite Element Methods

    Jože Korelc;Peter Wriggers

  • A note on tangent stiffness for fully nonlinear contact problems

    P. Wriggers;J. C. Simo

  • Consistent linearization for path following methods in nonlinear FE analysis

    K H Schweizerhof;P Wriggers

  • Frictionless 2D Contact formulations for finite deformations based on the mortar method

    K. A. Fischer;P. Wriggers

  • A note on enhanced strain methods for large deformations

    P. Wriggers;S. Reese

  • Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian finite element analysis of free surface flow

    Henning Braess;Peter Wriggers

  • A quadratically convergent procedure for the calculation of stability points in finite element analysis

    P. Wriggers;W. Wagner;C. Miehe

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietmar Gross
Dietmar Gross Technical University of Darmstadt
Tarek I. Zohdi
Tarek I. Zohdi University of California, Berkeley
Giorgio Zavarise
Giorgio Zavarise Polytechnic University of Turin
Fadi Aldakheel
Fadi Aldakheel University of Hannover
Ralf Müller
Ralf Müller BI Norwegian Business School
Stefanie Reese
Stefanie Reese RWTH Aachen University
Erwin Stein
Erwin Stein University of Hannover
Marco Paggi
Marco Paggi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Hans Jürgen Maier
Hans Jürgen Maier University of Hannover
Werner Wagner
Werner Wagner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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