2026 Shaofan Li: 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	60	692	629	302	254	332	15615

Shaofan Li 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 Shaofan Li sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 659+

This scientist: 332 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shaofan Li 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 Shaofan Li sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shaofan Li is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Engineering. Their scholarly output spans multiple subfields including Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Computational Mechanics, and Mechanical Engineering.

The topics covered by their work include numerical methods in engineering, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, composite material mechanics, concrete and cement materials research, rock mechanics and modeling, and structural health monitoring techniques.

Their recent papers include:

Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future (2022) published in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
A Critical Review on Structural Health Monitoring: Definitions, Methods, and Perspectives (2021) published in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Selected machine learning approaches for predicting the interfacial bond strength between FRPs and concrete (2020) published in Construction and Building Materials
A State-of-the-Art Review on Machine Learning-Based Multiscale Modeling, Simulation, Homogenization and Design of Materials (2022) published in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Application and modelling of Shape-Memory Alloys for structural vibration control: State-of-the-art review (2022) published in Construction and Building Materials

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Shaofan Li has several frequent coauthors:

Jinyang Jiang
Xuan Hu
Yuxi Xie
A-Man Zhang
Chengyao Liang

Their publications appear regularly in the following venues:

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
SSRN Electronic Journal
Computational Mechanics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Shaofan Li has contributed to book publications as well, with works published by Cambridge University Press and Springer Nature (Netherlands). Titles include "Introduction to Computational Nanomechanics" (2022) and "Computational and Experimental Simulations in Engineering" (2023).

Best Publications

Meshfree and particle methods and their applications

Shaofan Li;Wing Kam Liu

1257
Citations
Reproducing kernel particle methods for structural dynamics

Wing Kam Liu;Sukky Jun;Shaofan Li;Jonathan Adee

1168
Citations
Moving least-square reproducing kernel methods (I) Methodology and convergence

Wing Kam Liu;Shaofan Li;Ted Belytschko

760
Citations
Swelling of Graphene Oxide Membranes in Aqueous Solution: Characterization of Interlayer Spacing and Insight into Water Transport Mechanisms

Sunxiang Zheng;Qingsong Tu;Jeffrey J. Urban;Shaofan Li

743
Citations
Understanding the Aqueous Stability and Filtration Capability of MoS2 Membranes

Zhongying Wang;Qingsong Tu;Sunxiang Zheng;Jeffrey J. Urban

370
Citations
INTRODUCTION TO MICROMECHANICS AND NANOMECHANICS

Shaofan Li;Gang Wang

356
Citations
Finite difference calculus invariant structure of a class of algorithms for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

S. Li;L. Vu-Quoc

307
Citations
Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future.

Wing Kam Liu;Shaofan Li;Harold Park

241
Citations
Reproducing kernel hierarchical partition of unity, Part I—formulation and theory

Shaofan Li;Wing Kam Liu

233
Citations
A Critical Review on Structural Health Monitoring: Definitions, Methods, and Perspectives

Vahid Reza Gharehbaghi;Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi;Mohammad Noori;T. Y. Yang

230
Citations
Numerical simulations of large deformation of thin shell structures using meshfree methods

S. Li;W. Hao;W. K. Liu

208
Citations
Mesh-free Galerkin simulations of dynamic shear band propagation and failure mode transition

Shaofan Li;Wing Kam Liu;Ares J. Rosakis;Ted Belytschko

206
Citations
Reproducing kernel element method. Part I: Theoretical formulation

Wing Kam Liu;Weimin Han;Hongsheng Lu;Shaofan Li

205
Citations
A State-of-the-Art Review on Machine Learning-Based Multiscale Modeling, Simulation, Homogenization and Design of Materials

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192
Citations
Dynamic crack propagation in piezoelectric materials—Part I. Electrode solution

Shaofan Li;Peter A. Mataga

180
Citations
On criteria for dynamic adiabatic shear band propagation

Sergey N. Medyanik;Wing Kam Liu;Shaofan Li

178
Citations
Selected machine learning approaches for predicting the interfacial bond strength between FRPs and concrete

Miao Su;Miao Su;Qingyu Zhong;Hui Peng;Shaofan Li

175
Citations
Moving least-square reproducing kernel method Part II: Fourier analysis

Shaofan Li;Wing Kam Liu

173
Citations
Perfectly matched multiscale simulations

Albert C. To;Shaofan Li

154
Citations
A Peridynamics-SPH modeling and simulation of blast fragmentation of soil under buried explosive loads

Houfu Fan;Shaofan Li

150
Citations
Dynamic crack propagation in piezoelectric materials—Part II. Vacuum solution

Shaofan Li;Peter A. Mataga

134
Citations
Peridynamics simulations of geomaterial fragmentation by impulse loads

Xin Lai;Xin Lai;Bo Ren;Houfu Fan;Shaofan Li

126
Citations
A hybrid peridynamics–SPH simulation of soil fragmentation by blast loads of buried explosive

Houfu Fan;Guy Leshem Bergel;Shaofan Li

126
Citations
Multiple scale meshfree methods for damage fracture and localization

Wing Kam Liu;Su Hao;Ted Belytschko;Shao Fan Li

125
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wing Kam Liu Northwestern University

Roger A. Sauer Ruhr University Bochum

Dong Qian The University of Texas at Dallas

Ted Belytschko Northwestern University

Jian Cao Northwestern University

Albert C. To University of Pittsburgh

A-Man Zhang Harbin Engineering University

Xin-Lin Gao Southern Methodist University

Baoxia Mi University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey J. Urban Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

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