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D-Index
35
Citations
3770
World Ranking
2732
National Ranking
94

Roger A. Sauer 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 Roger A. Sauer sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 171 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roger A. Sauer 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 Roger A. Sauer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Roger A. Sauer is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with a substantial number of publications in several related subfields.

Sauer's main subfields of study include:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Surgery

Their research covers a diverse range of topics, notably:

  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
  • Tribology and Lubrication Engineering
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling

Roger A. Sauer has authored numerous papers published across several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  • PAMM
  • Computational Mechanics

Among recent papers, key publications are:

  • "Contact with coupled adhesion and friction: Computational framework, applications, and new insights" (2020), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Galerkin formulations of isogeometric shell analysis: Alleviating locking with Greville quadratures and higher-order elements" (2021), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • "An adaptive space-time phase field formulation for dynamic fracture of brittle shells based on LR NURBS" (2020), Computational Mechanics
  • "Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element method for curved and deforming surfaces" (2020), Journal of Computational Physics
  • "On topology optimization of large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms" (2020), Mechanism and Machine Theory

The scientist regularly collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Thang X. Duong
  • Sven Klinkel
  • Myung-Jin Choi
  • Thomas J.R. Hughes
  • Katharina Immel

Best Publications

  • THEORY AND NUMERICS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BEAMS WITH ELASTOPLASTIC MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR ∗

    Friedrich Gruttmann;R. Sauer;Werner Wagner

  • A new rotation-free isogeometric thin shell formulation and a corresponding continuity constraint for patch boundaries

    Thang X. Duong;Farshad Roohbakhshan;Roger Andrew Sauer

  • A NURBS-based inverse analysis for reconstruction of nonlinear deformations of thin shell structures

    N. Vu-Bac;T.X. Duong;T. Lahmer;X. Zhuang

  • Shear stresses in prismatic beams with arbitrary cross‐sections

    F. Gruttmann;R. Sauer;W. Wagner

  • A contact mechanics model for quasi-continua

    Roger A. Sauer;Shaofan Li

  • The Eshelby Tensors in a Finite Spherical Domain—Part I: Theoretical Formulations

    Shaofan Li;Roger A. Sauer;Gang Wang

  • A geometrical nonlinear eccentric 3D-beam element with arbitrary cross-sections

    Friedrich Gruttmann;R. Sauer;W. Wagner

  • An atomic interaction-based continuum model for adhesive contact mechanics

    Roger A. Sauer;Shaofan Li

  • A computational contact formulation based on surface potentials

    Roger A. Sauer;Laura De Lorenzis

  • Formulation and analysis of a three-dimensional finite element implementation for adhesive contact at the nanoscale

    Roger A. Sauer;Peter Wriggers

  • An unbiased computational contact formulation for 3D friction

    Roger A. Sauer;Laura De Lorenzis

  • A computational formulation for constrained solid and liquid membranes considering isogeometric finite elements

    Roger A. Sauer;Thang X. Duong;Callum J. Corbett

  • Enriched contact finite elements for stable peeling computations

    Roger A. Sauer

  • Continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction

    Janine C. Mergel;Riad Sahli;Julien Scheibert;Roger A. Sauer

  • On the theoretical foundations of thin solid and liquid shells

    Roger Andrew Sauer;Thang X. Duong

  • The Peeling Behavior of Thin Films with Finite Bending Stiffness and the Implications on Gecko Adhesion

    Roger A. Sauer

  • A circular inclusion in a finite domain I. The Dirichlet-Eshelby problem

    Shaofan Li;Roger Sauer;Gang Wang

  • NURBS-enriched contact finite elements

    Callum J. Corbett;Roger A. Sauer

  • A stabilized finite element formulation for liquid shells and its application to lipid bilayers

    Roger A. Sauer;Thang X. Duong;Kranthi K. Mandadapu;David J. Steigmann

  • A Survey of Computational Models for Adhesion

    Roger A. Sauer

  • Multiscale modelling and simulation of the deformation and adhesion of a single gecko seta.

    Roger A. Sauer

  • Contact with coupled adhesion and friction: Computational framework, applications, and new insights

    Janine C. Mergel;Julien Scheibert;Roger A. Sauer;Roger A. Sauer;Roger A. Sauer

  • The Eshelby Tensors in a Finite Spherical Domain—Part II: Applications to Homogenization

    Shaofan Li;Gang Wang;Roger A. Sauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaofan Li
Shaofan Li University of California, Berkeley
Thomas J. R. Hughes
Thomas J. R. Hughes The University of Texas at Austin
Chad M. Landis
Chad M. Landis The University of Texas at Austin
Ming Hu
Ming Hu University of South Carolina
Guillaume Haiat
Guillaume Haiat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Timon Rabczuk
Timon Rabczuk Bauhaus University, Weimar
Harold S. Park
Harold S. Park Boston University
Peter Wriggers
Peter Wriggers University of Hannover
Xiaoying Zhuang
Xiaoying Zhuang University of Hannover

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