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D-Index
40
Citations
10080
World Ranking
1984
National Ranking
8

Tod A. Laursen 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 Tod A. Laursen sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 100 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tod A. Laursen 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 Tod A. Laursen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% 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

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Tod A. Laursen is a researcher affiliated with the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Their work primarily spans the field of Engineering, with specific emphasis on subfields such as Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics of Laursen's research include:

  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics

Laursen has published scientific papers in notable venues including the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics and the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Some recent publications comprise:

  • "A strong-form meshfree collocation method for modeling stationary cracks with frictional contact" (2022), published in the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • "Issue Information" (2022), published in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

The researcher has collaborated with several co-authors throughout their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ashkan Almasi
  • Young-Cheol Yoon
  • Tae-Yeon Kim
  • Jeong-Hoon Song
  • Mark Ainsworth

In 2008, Tod A. Laursen was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • Computational Contact and Impact Mechanics: Fundamentals of Modeling Interfacial Phenomena in Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

    Tod A. Laursen

  • An augmented lagrangian treatment of contact problems involving friction

    J.C. Simo;T.A. Laursen

  • Computational Contact and Impact Mechanics

    Tod A. Laursen

  • A continuum-based finite element formulation for the implicit solution of multibody, large deformation-frictional contact problems

    T. A. Laursen;J. C. Simo

  • A mortar segment-to-segment contact method for large deformation solid mechanics

    Michael A. Puso;Tod A. Laursen

  • A mortar segment-to-segment frictional contact method for large deformations

    Michael A. Puso;Tod A. Laursen

  • A study of the mechanics of microindentation using finite elements

    T. A. Laursen;J. C. Simo

  • DESIGN OF ENERGY CONSERVING ALGORITHMS FOR FRICTIONLESS DYNAMIC CONTACT PROBLEMS

    Tod Laursen;Vikas Chawla

  • Determination of the Poisson's ratio of the cell: recovery properties of chondrocytes after release from complete micropipette aspiration.

    Wendy R. Trickey;Frank P.T. Baaijens;Tod A. Laursen;Leonidas G. Alexopoulos

  • A mortar‐finite element formulation for frictional contact problems

    T. W. McDevitt;T. A. Laursen

  • Two dimensional mortar contact methods for large deformation frictional sliding

    Bin Yang;Tod A. Laursen;Xiaonong Meng

  • A 3D contact smoothing method using Gregory patches

    Michael Anthony Puso;Tod A. Laursen

  • A segment-to-segment mortar contact method for quadratic elements and large deformations

    Michael A. Puso;T.A. Laursen;Jerome Solberg

  • Improved implicit integrators for transient impact problems: geometric admissibility within the conserving framework

    T. A. Laursen;G. R. Love

  • Algorithmic symmetrization of coulomb frictional problems using augmented lagrangians

    T.A. Laursen;J.C. Simo

  • Three-dimensional optimization of staggered finned circular and elliptic tubes in forced convection

    R.S. Matos;T.A. Laursen;J.V.C. Vargas;A. Bejan

  • Finite element tree crown hydrodynamics model (FETCH) using porous media flow within branching elements: A new representation of tree hydrodynamics

    Gil Bohrer;Hashem Mourad;Tod A. Laursen;Darren Drewry

  • Optimization study and heat transfer comparison of staggered circular and elliptic tubes in forced convection

    R.S Matos;J.V.C Vargas;T.A Laursen;F.E.M Saboya

  • Large deformation finite element analysis of micropipette aspiration to determine the mechanical properties of the chondrocyte.

    Frank P. T. Baaijens;Wendy R. Trickey;Tod A. Laursen;Farshid Guilak

  • A framework for development of surface smoothing procedures in large deformation frictional contact analysis

    V. Padmanabhan;T. A. Laursen

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Dolbow
John E. Dolbow Duke University
Farshid Guilak
Farshid Guilak Washington University in St. Louis
Adrian Bejan
Adrian Bejan Duke University
Juan C. Simo
Juan C. Simo Stanford University
Lawrence N. Virgin
Lawrence N. Virgin Duke University
Peter J. Mucha
Peter J. Mucha Dartmouth College
Martyn P. Nash
Martyn P. Nash University of Auckland
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Roni Avissar
Roni Avissar University of Miami
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University

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