Alba Yerro

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alba Yerro is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Alba Yerro has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 25 papers in Computational Mechanics and 20 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Alba Yerro's work include Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (25 papers), Landslides and related hazards (20 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (17 papers). Alba Yerro is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (25 papers), Landslides and related hazards (20 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (17 papers). Alba Yerro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Alba Yerro's co-authors include Eduardo Alonso Pérez de Ágreda, Kenichi Soga, Núria M. Pinyol, Krishna Kumar, Samila Bandara, Francesca Ceccato, Jonathan D. Bray, Paolo Simonini, Mario Martinelli and Jordi Corominas and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Géotechnique and Engineering Geology.

In The Last Decade

Alba Yerro

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Trends in large-deformation analysis of landslide mass mo... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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  1. Trends in large-deformation analysis of landslide mass movements with particular emphasis on the material point method
    2015 418 citations Eduardo Alonso Pérez de Ágreda, Alba Yerro et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alba Yerro United States 15 789 703 671 338 279 51 1.2k
Atsushi Yashima Japan 23 1.4k 1.8× 412 0.6× 610 0.9× 254 0.8× 329 1.2× 100 1.8k
Antonello Troncone Italy 28 1.3k 1.6× 200 0.3× 949 1.4× 783 2.3× 166 0.6× 51 1.6k
Samila Bandara United Kingdom 6 614 0.8× 704 1.0× 502 0.7× 220 0.7× 337 1.2× 6 1.0k
Mourad Zeghal United States 22 1.7k 2.2× 211 0.3× 285 0.4× 102 0.3× 84 0.3× 78 1.9k
Andrea Segalini Italy 13 293 0.4× 113 0.2× 645 1.0× 200 0.6× 167 0.6× 46 783
D. Roddeman Italy 10 321 0.4× 242 0.3× 683 1.0× 131 0.4× 148 0.5× 15 786
Ryosuke Uzuoka Japan 21 1.2k 1.5× 204 0.3× 490 0.7× 190 0.6× 124 0.4× 93 1.4k
Kazunari Sako Japan 9 443 0.6× 535 0.8× 332 0.5× 109 0.3× 196 0.7× 33 780
Luc Sibille France 23 1.1k 1.4× 431 0.6× 548 0.8× 125 0.4× 331 1.2× 51 1.5k
Farid Laouafa France 22 1.0k 1.3× 297 0.4× 522 0.8× 232 0.7× 373 1.3× 55 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alba Yerro

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All Works

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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2025). Controlling Settlement Due to Adjacent Loading Using Sheet-Pile Walls: Insights from Finite Element Analysis. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering. 44(1).
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2025). Connecting landslide basal sliding surface characteristics with post-failure kinematics and impact on rigid structures: An MPM numerical study. Computers and Geotechnics. 182. 107158–107158. 1 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2024). Numerical analysis of tire mobility on deformable plastic clay in saturated conditions using total and effective stress frameworks. Journal of Terramechanics. 117. 101024–101024. 2 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2024). A soil mechanics model to determine the onset of wind erosion. Coastal Engineering. 191. 104523–104523. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Rui, Anthony Kwan Leung, Alba Yerro, Yu Chen, & Zhigang Jiang. (2024). A Review of Laboratory Cone Penetration Test (CPT) in Unsaturated Soil.
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2024). Behaviour of wet clay due to off-road traffic loading. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 1311(1). 12021–12021. 1 indexed citations
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Saeidi, Ali, et al.. (2023). Prediction of post-peak stress-strain behavior for sensitive clays. Engineering Geology. 323. 107221–107221. 6 indexed citations
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Saeidi, Ali, et al.. (2023). Failure mechanism, existing constitutive models and numerical modeling of landslides in sensitive clay: a review. Geoenvironmental Disasters. 10(1). 5 indexed citations
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Martinelli, Mario, et al.. (2023). Addressing complexities in MPM modeling of calibration chamber cone penetrometer tests in homogenous and highly interlayered soils. Computers and Geotechnics. 158. 105378–105378. 14 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2023). A Simplified Model for Predicting Wind Erosion of Moistened Sands. 29. 412–421. 1 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba & Francesca Ceccato. (2023). Soil–Water–Structure Interactions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 301–305. 3 indexed citations
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Zekkos, Dimitrios, et al.. (2023). 3D Numerical Assessment of Rammed Aggregate Pier Performance under Dynamic Loading in Liquefiable Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 149(3). 2 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2022). Coseismic site response and slope instability using periodic boundary conditions in the material point method. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 15(3). 641–658. 11 indexed citations
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Yerro, Alba, et al.. (2021). Modelling earthquake-triggered landslide runout with the material point method. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering. 174(5). 563–576. 10 indexed citations
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Ceccato, Francesca, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of dynamic explicit mpm formulations for unsaturated soils. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 93–102. 4 indexed citations
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Stark, Nina, et al.. (2018). THE EFFECT OF SHEAR STRENGTH AND MOISTURE CONTENT ON THE FLUID VELOCITY THRESHOLD OF WIND EROSION. Coastal Engineering Proceedings. 86–86. 2 indexed citations
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Pinyol, Núria M., et al.. (2017). Novel Procedure to Validate MPM Results by Means of PIV Measurements. Procedia Engineering. 175. 332–340. 1 indexed citations
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Ágreda, Eduardo Alonso Pérez de, Alba Yerro, & Núria M. Pinyol. (2015). Recent developments of the Material Point Method for the simulation of landslides. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 26. 12003–12003. 14 indexed citations

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