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D-Index
61
Citations
18331
World Ranking
634
National Ranking
279

Victor Giurgiutiu 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 Victor Giurgiutiu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 483 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Victor Giurgiutiu 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 Victor Giurgiutiu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% 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

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Victor Giurgiutiu is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States and specializes in engineering with a focus on mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, and mechanical engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including ocean engineering and pollution.

Their main research topics include:

  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Smart Materials for Construction
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites

Frequent coauthors in Victor Giurgiutiu's work include:

  • Hanfei Mei
  • Asaad Migot
  • Robin James
  • Roshan Joseph
  • Lingyu Yu

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • Sensors
  • Composites Part B Engineering
  • Applied Sciences
  • Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
  • Structural Health Monitoring

Recent publications by Victor Giurgiutiu include:

  • Pure S0 and SH0 detections of various damage types in aerospace composites, 2020, Composites Part B Engineering
  • Multimode Guided Wave Detection for Various Composite Damage Types, 2020, Applied Sciences
  • An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Fatigue Crack Length Estimation from Acoustic Emission Waves in Thin Metallic Plates, 2022, Applied Sciences
  • Towards the generation of controlled one-inch impact damage in thick CFRP composites for SHM and NDE validation, 2020, Composites Part B Engineering
  • Characterization of multilayer delaminations in composites using wavenumber analysis: numerical and experimental studies, 2020, Structural Health Monitoring

Victor Giurgiutiu was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Structural Health Monitoring: with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Tuned Lamb-Wave Excitation and Detection with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Piezoelectric Wafer Embedded Active Sensors for Aging Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Andrei Zagrai;Jing Jing Bao

  • In situ 2-D piezoelectric wafer active sensors arrays for guided wave damage detection.

    Lingyu Yu;Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Embedded Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Active Sensors for On-Line Structural Identification

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Andrei N. Zagrai

  • Characterization of piezoelectric wafer active sensors

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Andrei N. Zagrai

  • Electro-Mechanical Impedance Method for Crack Detection in Thin Plates

    Andrei N. Zagrai;Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Embedded non-destructive evaluation for structural health monitoring, damage detection, and failure prevention

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Adrian Cuc

  • Lamb wave generation with piezoelectric wafer active sensors for structural health monitoring

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Damage Detection in Thin Plates and Aerospace Structures with the Electro-Mechanical Impedance Method:

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Andrei Zagrai

  • Embedded-ultrasonics Structural Radar for In Situ Structural Health Monitoring of Thin-wall Structures:

    Victor Giurgiutiu;JingJing Bao

  • Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Composites

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Single Mode Tuning Effects on Lamb Wave Time Reversal with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

    Buli Xu;Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Experimental Investigation of E/M Impedance Health Monitoring for Spot-Welded Structural Joints:

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Anthony P. Reynolds;Craig A. Rogers

  • Review of Smart Materials Actuation Solutions for Aeroelastic and Vibration Control

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Recent advancements in the electromechanical (E/M) impedance method for structural health monitoring and NDE

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Craig A. Rogers

  • Micromechatronics: Modeling, Analysis, and Design with MATLAB

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Sergey Edward Lyshevski

  • Damage Identification in Aging Aircraft Structures with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors

    Victor Giurgiutiu;Andrei Zagrai;Jingjing Bao

  • 7 – PIEZOELECTRIC WAFER ACTIVE SENSORS

    Victor Giurgiutiu

  • Active Sensors for Health Monitoring of Aging Aerospace Structures

    Victor Giurgiutiu;James M. Redmond;Dennis P. Roach;Kirk A. Rackow

  • Lamb Wave-Mode Tuning of Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

    Giola B. Santoni;Lingyu Yu;Buli Xu;Victor Giurgiutiu

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig A. Rogers
Craig A. Rogers University of South Carolina
Paul Ziehl
Paul Ziehl University of South Carolina
Ruyan Guo
Ruyan Guo The University of Texas at San Antonio
Daniel J. Inman
Daniel J. Inman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Antonio Nanni
Antonio Nanni University of Miami
Michael A. Sutton
Michael A. Sutton University of South Carolina
Efstathios I. Meletis
Efstathios I. Meletis The University of Texas at Arlington
Constantinos Soutis
Constantinos Soutis University of Manchester
Anthony P. Reynolds
Anthony P. Reynolds University of South Carolina
Shashank Priya
Shashank Priya Pennsylvania State University

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