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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
53
Citations
9647
World Ranking
1010
National Ranking
22

Yoon Young Kim 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 Yoon Young Kim sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 386 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yoon Young Kim 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 Yoon Young Kim sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yoon Young Kim is affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering with a focus on mechanics and materials. Their research spans multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, mechanical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The main topics of their work encompass:

  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Structural Load-Bearing Analysis

Yoon Young Kim has published research in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • Computers & Structures
  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Nature Communications

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Non-resonant metasurface for broadband elastic wave mode splitting" (2020), Applied Physics Letters
  • "Elastic metamaterials for guided waves: from fundamentals to applications" (2023), Smart Materials and Structures
  • "Longitudinal wave steering using beam-type elastic metagratings" (2021), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • "Perfect transmission of elastic waves obliquely incident at solid-solid interfaces" (2022), Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • "Higher-order Vlasov torsion theory for thin-walled box beams" (2020), International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Soo-Min Choi
  • Gang-Won Jang
  • Jeseung Lee
  • Chung Il Park
  • Joong Seok Lee

Yoon Young Kim has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. Notably, they published a book titled Analysis of Thin-Walled Beams in 2023 with Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Best Publications

  • Review of magnetostrictive patch transducers and applications in ultrasonic nondestructive testing of waveguides.

    Yoon Young Kim;Young Eui Kwon

  • Damage detection using the Lipschitz exponent estimated by the wavelet transform: applications to vibration modes of a beam

    J.-C. Hong;Y.Y. Kim;H.C. Lee;Y.W. Lee

  • Mac-based mode-tracking in structural topology optimization

    Tae Soo Kim;Yoon Young Kim

  • Element connectivity parameterization for topology optimization of geometrically nonlinear structures

    Gil Ho Yoon;Yoon Young Kim

  • Mass-stiffness substructuring of an elastic metasurface for full transmission beam steering

    Hyuk Lee;Jun Kyu Lee;Hong Min Seung;Yoon Young Kim

  • Multi-resolution multi-scale topology optimization — a new paradigm

    Yoon Young Kim;Gil Ho Yoon

  • Notch1 counteracts WNT/β-catenin signaling through chromatin modification in colorectal cancer

    Hyun-A Kim;Bon-Kyoung Koo;Ji-Hoon Cho;Yoon-Young Kim

  • Topology optimization of muffler internal partitions for improving acoustical attenuation performance

    Jin Woo Lee;Yoon Young Kim

  • Transmodal Fabry-Pérot Resonance: Theory and Realization with Elastic Metamaterials.

    Joshua Minwoo Kweun;Hyung Jin Lee;Joo Hwan Oh;Hong Min Seung

  • The matching pursuit approach based on the modulated Gaussian pulse for efficient guided-wave damage inspection

    Jin-Chul Hong;Kyung Ho Sun;Yoon Young Kim

  • Rational design of common transition metal-nitrogen-carbon catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells

    Yongping Zheng;Yongping Zheng;Dae Soo Yang;Joshua M. Kweun;Chenzhe Li

  • Torsional wave experiments with a new magnetostrictive transducer configuration.

    Yoon Young Kim;Chan Il Park;Seung Hyun Cho;Soon Woo Han

  • Effectiveness of the continuous wavelet transform in the analysis of some dispersive elastic waves

    Yoon Young Kim;Eung-Hun Kim

  • Beam-focused shear-horizontal wave generation in a plate by a circular magnetostrictive patch transducer employing a planar solenoid array

    Ju Seung Lee;Yoon Young Kim;Seung Hyun Cho

  • Multiple slow waves in metaporous layers for broadband sound absorption

    Jieun Yang;Joong Seok Lee;Yoon Young Kim

  • Topology optimization of beam cross sections

    Yoon Young Kim;Tae Soo Kim

  • Checkerboard‐free topology optimization using non‐conforming finite elements

    Gang-Won Jang;Je Hyun Jeong;Yoon Young Kim;Dongwoo Sheen

  • An omnidirectional shear-horizontal guided wave EMAT for a metallic plate

    Hong Min Seung;Chung Il Park;Yoon Young Kim

  • Development of an omni-directional shear-horizontal wave magnetostrictive patch transducer for plates

    Hong Min Seung;Hoe Woong Kim;Yoon Young Kim

  • Dispersion-based short-time Fourier transform applied to dispersive wave analysis.

    Jin-Chul Hong;Kyung Ho Sun;Yoon Young Kim

  • Hinge-free topology optimization with embedded translation-invariant differentiable wavelet shrinkage

    G. H. Yoon;Y. Y. Kim;Martin P. Bendsøe;Ole Sigmund

  • Elastic metamaterials for independent realization of negativity in density and stiffness.

    Joo Hwan Oh;Young Eui Kwon;Hyung Jin Lee;Yoon Young Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Young Whan Cho
Young Whan Cho Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Charles R. Steele
Charles R. Steele Stanford University
Chun-Gon Kim
Chun-Gon Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kyeongjae Cho
Kyeongjae Cho The University of Texas at Dallas
Byeng D. Youn
Byeng D. Youn Seoul National University
Young-Yun Kong
Young-Yun Kong Seoul National University
Maenghyo Cho
Maenghyo Cho Seoul National University
Michitoshi Yoshida
Michitoshi Yoshida National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Heung Nam Han
Heung Nam Han Seoul National University
Bon-Kyoung Koo
Bon-Kyoung Koo Austrian Academy of Sciences

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