2026 Wilfried Becker: 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	34	2845	2669	99	94	382	4737

Overview

Wilfried Becker is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and specializes in engineering, focusing primarily on mechanics of materials. Their work spans several subfields including mechanical engineering, civil and structural engineering, polymers and plastics, and automotive engineering.

The major topics Wilfried Becker has contributed to include:

Mechanical Behavior of Composites
Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
Numerical Methods in Engineering
Cellular and Composite Structures
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics
Structural Load-Bearing Analysis
Structural Analysis of Composite Materials

Wilfried Becker has published extensively in various scientific venues, with a notable frequency in:

PAMM
Composite Structures
Archive of Applied Mechanics
Procedia Structural Integrity
International Journal of Solids and Structures

Their recent papers include:

"Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates-A Review of Recent Developments 2005-2020," 2022, Applied Mechanics Reviews
"Tension failure analysis for bolted joints using a closed-form stress solution," 2020, Composite Structures
"Structural modeling of sandwich panels with additively manufactured strut-based lattice cores," 2022, Additive Manufacturing
"2D Elasticity solution for sandwich panels with functionally graded lattice cores," 2022, Composite Structures
"Closed-form analysis of interlaminar crack initiation in angle-ply laminates," 2020, Composite Structures

Wilfried Becker frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors including:

Christian Mittelstedt
Hussam Georges
Elisaveta Kirilova
Tatyana Petrova
M. Nguyen-Hoang

Best Publications

A review of Finite Fracture Mechanics: crack initiation at singular and non-singular stress raisers

Philipp Weißgraeber;Dominique Leguillon;Wilfried Becker

251
Citations
Effective stress-strain relations for two-dimensional cellular sandwich cores: Homogenization, material models, and properties

Jörg Hohe;Wilfried Becker

217
Citations
Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates

Christian Mittelstedt;Wilfried Becker

217
Citations
Mechanik elastischer Körper und Strukturen

Wilfried Becker;Dietmar Gross

170
Citations
Interlaminar Stress Concentrations in Layered Structures: Part I - A Selective Literature Survey on the Free-Edge Effect since 1967

Christian Mittelstedt;Wilfried Becker

164
Citations
Finite Fracture Mechanics model for mixed mode fracture in adhesive joints

Philipp Weißgraeber;Wilfried Becker

147
Citations
Comparison of models for transverse ply cracks in composite laminates

L.N. McCartney;G.A. Schoeppner;W. Becker

117
Citations
Closed-form analysis of the thickness effect of regular honeycomb core material

Wilfried Becker

104
Citations
A refined analysis of the effective elasticity tensor for general cellular sandwich cores

Jörg Hohe;Wilfried Becker

97
Citations
Effective elastic properties of triangular grid structures

J. Hohe;W. Becker

93
Citations
A coupled stress and energy criterion for the assessment of crack initiation in single lap joints: A numerical approach

Sascha Hell;Philipp Weißgraeber;Julian Felger;Wilfried Becker

86
Citations
Cracks at elliptical holes: stress intensity factor and Finite Fracture Mechanics solution

Philipp Weißgraeber;Julian Felger;Dennis Geipel;Wilfried Becker

82
Citations
An energetic homogenisation procedure for the elastic properties of general cellular sandwich cores

J. Hohe;W. Becker

81
Citations
Modelling brittle crack formation at geometrical and material discontinuities using a finite fracture mechanics approach

Jochen Hebel;Rolf Dieringer;Wilfried Becker

81
Citations
Effective elastic properties of hexagonal and quadrilateral grid structures

J. Hohe;C. Beschorner;W. Becker

79
Citations
Effective mechanical behavior of hyperelastic honeycombs and two-dimensional model foams at finite strain

Joerg Hohe;Wilfried Becker

79
Citations
Closed-form solution for the free-edge effect in cross-ply laminates

Wilfried Becker

76
Citations
A model for brittle failure in adhesive lap joints of arbitrary joint configuration

Nicolas Stein;Philipp Weißgraeber;Wilfried Becker

75
Citations
The in-plane stiffnesses of a honeycomb core including the thickness effect

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73
Citations
Computation of 3-D stress singularities for multiple cracks and crack intersections by the scaled boundary finite element method

Sanjib Goswami;Wilfried Becker

72
Citations
An efficient analysis model for functionally graded adhesive single lap joints

Nicolas Stein;Houman Mardani;Wilfried Becker

68
Citations
Complex method for the elliptical hole in an unsymmetric laminate

W. Becker

63
Citations
Numerical determination of initial and subsequent yield surfaces of open-celled model foams

Serkan Demiray;Wilfried Becker;Jörg Hohe

63
Citations
Coupled and uncoupled analyses of piezoelectric free-edge effect in laminated plates

Jens Artel;Wilfried Becker

62
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel H. E. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Detlef Stolten RWTH Aachen University

Holm Altenbach Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Dominique Leguillon Université Paris Cité

Dietmar Gross Technical University of Darmstadt

Jürgen Malzbender Forschungszentrum Jülich

Jacob Aboudi Tel Aviv University

Rüdiger Klein Max Planck Society

Bernd Freisleben Philipp University of Marburg

Marek-Jerzy Pindera University of Virginia

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