2026 Robert M. McMeeking: 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	90	112	101	59	49	360	30378
Materials Science	90	1695	1631	523	490	359	29640

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2014 - Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2014 - William Prager Medal
2012 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
2005 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the computational modeling of materials and for the development of codes widely used by industry.
1998 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Robert M. McMeeking is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with significant contributions across several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist has a substantial publication record focusing on key topics such as Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert M. McMeeking include:

V.S. Deshpande
N.A. Fleck
Siamak S. Shishvan
René Hensel
Attila Kossa

They have published repeatedly in several venues, notably:

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Power Sources
Progress in Materials Science
Meccanica

Some recent research papers by Robert M. McMeeking include:

Functional surface microstructures inspired by nature - From adhesion and wetting principles to sustainable new devices (2021) published in Progress in Materials Science
Dendrites as climbing dislocations in ceramic electrolytes: Initiation of growth (2020) published in Journal of Power Sources
A bioinspired snap-through metastructure for manipulating micro-objects (2022) published in Science Advances
Growth rate of lithium filaments in ceramic electrolytes (2020) published in Acta Materialia
Kink band and shear band localization in anisotropic perfectly plastic solids (2020) published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Over the course of their career, Robert M. McMeeking has received several awards including:

Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2014)
William Prager Medal (2014)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2014)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2012)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2005) for contributions to the computational modeling of materials and for the development of codes widely used by industry
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1998)

Best Publications

Mechanics of Transformation‐Toughening in Brittle Materials

R. M. McMEEKING;A.G. Evans

1350
Citations
A Test Specimen for Determining the Fracture Resistance of Bimaterial Interfaces

P. G. Charalambides;J. Lund;A. G. Evans;R. M. McMeeking

1186
Citations
Finite deformation analysis of crack-tip opening in elastic-plastic materials and implications for fracture

R.M. McMeeking

1121
Citations
Finite element formulations for problems of large elastic-plastic deformation

R.M. McMeeking;J.R. Rice

1101
Citations
Ferroelectric/ferroelastic interactions and a polarization switching model

S.C. Hwang;C.S. Lynch;R.M. McMeeking

878
Citations
Mechanical metamaterials at the theoretical limit of isotropic elastic stiffness

J. B. Berger;H. N. G. Wadley;R. M. McMeeking

844
Citations
Numerical analysis of hydrogen transport near a blunting crack tip

Petros Athanasios Sofronis;R. M. McMeeking

844
Citations
Particle reinforcement of ductile matrices against plastic flow and creep

G. Bao;J.W. Hutchinson;R.M. McMeeking

706
Citations
On the toughness of brittle materials reinforced with a ductile phase

L.S. Sigl;P.A. Mataga;B.J. Dalgleish;R.M. McMeeking

587
Citations
Microfabricated tissue gauges to measure and manipulate forces from 3D microtissues

Wesley R. Legant;Amit Pathak;Michael T. Yang;Vikram S. Deshpande

521
Citations
A constitutive model for ferroelectric polycrystals

J. E. Huber;N. A. Fleck;Chad Matthew Landis;R. M. McMeeking

508
Citations
On criteria for J-dominance of crack-tip fields in large-scale yielding

RM McMeeking;DM Parks

493
Citations
Electrostatic Forces and Stored Energy for Deformable Dielectric Materials

Robert M. McMeeking;Chad Matthew Landis

490
Citations
On the toughening of ceramics by strong reinforcements

A.G. Evans;R.M. McMeeking

445
Citations
Yielding of metal powder bonded by isolated contacts

N.A. Fleck;L.T. Kuhn;R.M. McMeeking

418
Citations
A protocol for characterizing the structural performance of metallic sandwich panels: application to pyramidal truss cores

F.W. Zok;S.A. Waltner;Z. Wei;H.J. Rathbun

394
Citations
A method for calculating stress intensities in bimaterial fracture

P. P. L. Matos;R. M. McMeeking;P. G. Charalambides;M. D. Drory

390
Citations
A bio-chemo-mechanical model for cell contractility

Vikram S. Deshpande;Robert M. McMeeking;Anthony G. Evans

373
Citations
Functional surface microstructures inspired by nature – From adhesion and wetting principles to sustainable new devices

Unknown

338
Citations
Fatigue of ceramic matrix composites

A.G. Evans;F.W. Zok;R.M. McMeeking

318
Citations
The response of metallic sandwich panels to water blast

Yueming Liang;Alexander V. Spuskanyuk;Shane E. Flores;David R. Hayhurst

310
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony G. Evans University of California, Santa Barbara

Vikram Deshpande Harvard University

Eduard Arzt University of California, San Diego

Matthew R. Begley University of California, Santa Barbara

Norman A. Fleck University of Cambridge

Chad M. Landis The University of Texas at Austin

Frank W. Zok University of California, Santa Barbara

Fred F. Lange University of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher S. Chen Boston University

John W. Hutchinson Harvard University

External Links

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