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Selda Oterkus 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 Selda Oterkus sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 198 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Selda Oterkus 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 Selda Oterkus 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: 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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Selda Oterkus is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the field of Engineering, with significant contributions across several subfields including Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

Their work encompasses a variety of specialized topics, focusing on:

  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation

Their publication record includes contributions to several key academic venues:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling
  • Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • Procedia Structural Integrity
  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Selda Oterkus include:

  • Structural health monitoring of an offshore wind turbine tower using iFEM methodology, 2020, Ocean Engineering
  • An energy-based peridynamic model for fatigue cracking, 2020, Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • Dynamic crack arrest analysis by ordinary state-based peridynamics, 2020, International Journal of Fracture
  • Modelling of cracks with frictional contact based on peridynamics, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • Peridynamic Modelling of Fracture in Polycrystalline Ice, 2020, Journal of Mechanics

Frequent collaborators in their work include Erkan Oterkus, Zhenghao Yang, Satoyuki Tanaka, Cong Tien Nguyen, and Bingquan Wang. Collaboration with these co-authors has led to multiple publications across diverse aspects of engineering mechanics and materials.

Best Publications

  • Peridynamics review

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  • Ordinary state-based peridynamics for plastic deformation according to von Mises yield criteria with isotropic hardening

    Erdogan Madenci;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamic thermal diffusion

    Selda Oterkus;Erdogan Madenci;Abigail Agwai

  • Fully coupled peridynamic thermomechanics

    Selda Oterkus;Erdogan Madenci;Abigail Agwai

  • Peridynamics for bending of beams and plates with transverse shear deformation

    C. Diyaroglu;E. Oterkus;S. Oterkus;E. Madenci

  • Fully coupled poroelastic peridynamic formulation for fluid-filled fractures

    Selda Oterkus;Erdogan Madenci;Erkan Oterkus

  • Structural health monitoring of an offshore wind turbine tower using iFEM methodology

    Mingyang Li;Adnan Kefal;Erkan Oterkus;Selda Oterkus

  • Ordinary state-based peridynamics for thermoviscoelastic deformation

    Erdogan Madenci;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamic modeling of fuel pellet cracking

    Selda Oterkus;Erdogan Madenci

  • An energy-based peridynamic model for fatigue cracking

    Cong Tien Nguyen;Selda Oterkus;Erkan Oterkus

  • Fully coupled thermomechanical analysis of laminated composites by using ordinary state based peridynamic theory

    Yan Gao;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamics for the thermomechanical behavior of shell structures

    Cong Tien Nguyen;Cong Tien Nguyen;Selda Oterkus

  • Dynamic crack arrest analysis by ordinary state-based peridynamics

    Michiya Imachi;Satoyuki Tanaka;Murat Ozdemir;Tinh Quoc Bui

  • Predicting fracture evolution during lithiation process using peridynamics

    Hanlin Wang;Erkan Oterkus;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamics For The Solution Of Multiphysics Problems

    Selda Oterkus

  • Ordinary state based peridynamic modelling for fully coupled thermoelastic problems

    Yan Gao;Selda Oterkus

  • A computational approach based on ordinary state-based peridynamics with new transition bond for dynamic fracture analysis

    Michiya Imachi;Satoyuki Tanaka;Tinh Quoc Bui;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamics formulation for beam structures to predict damage in offshore structures

    Cong Tien Nguyen;Cong Tien Nguyen;Selda Oterkus

  • An Euler-Bernoulli beam formulation in ordinary state-based peridynamic framework

    Cagan Diyaroglu;Erkan Oterkus;Selda Oterkus

  • Peridynamic model for visco-hyperelastic material deformation in different strain rates

    Yunke Huang;Yunke Huang;Selda Oterkus;Hong Hou;Erkan Oterkus

  • Implementation of peridynamic beam and plate formulations in finite element framework

    Zhenghao Yang;Erkan Oterkus;Cong Tien Nguyen;Selda Oterkus

  • Dynamic propagation of a macrocrack interacting with parallel small cracks

    Bozo Vazic;Hanlin Wang;Cagan Diyaroglu;Selda Oterkus

Frequent Co-Authors

Erkan Oterkus
Erkan Oterkus Stony Brook University
Erdogan Madenci
Erdogan Madenci University of Arizona
Satoyuki Tanaka
Satoyuki Tanaka Kagoshima University
Tinh Quoc Bui
Tinh Quoc Bui Duy Tan University
Lars Johanning
Lars Johanning University of Exeter

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