Alex Plotkowski

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Alex Plotkowski is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Plotkowski has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 41 papers in Automotive Engineering and 33 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alex Plotkowski's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (71 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (41 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (33 papers). Alex Plotkowski is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (71 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (41 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (33 papers). Alex Plotkowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Alex Plotkowski's co-authors include Ryan Dehoff, S. S. Babu, Amit Shyam, Benjamin Stump, Michael Kirka, Richard A. Michi, Kevin Sisco, Sumit Bahl, Ying Yang and Lawrence F. Allard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Alex Plotkowski

90 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Towards high-temperature applications of aluminium alloys enabled by additive manufacturing

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Plotkowski United States	29	2.7k	1.2k	853	670	193	97	2.9k
Richard Otis United States	17	1.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	235 0.3×	571 0.9×	143 0.7×	43	2.2k
Hector Basoalto United Kingdom	17	2.1k 0.8×	976 0.8×	263 0.3×	445 0.7×	105 0.5×	49	2.2k
Jarred C. Heigel United States	22	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	183 0.2×	362 0.5×	321 1.7×	46	2.5k
Jonathan D Madison United States	15	1.1k 0.4×	561 0.5×	169 0.2×	414 0.6×	141 0.7×	35	1.3k
Matthias Markl Germany	19	1.4k 0.5×	943 0.8×	127 0.1×	326 0.5×	186 1.0×	60	1.6k
E. Hosseini Switzerland	21	1.6k 0.6×	463 0.4×	199 0.2×	733 1.1×	58 0.3×	72	1.9k
Shuhao Wang China	23	1.4k 0.5×	471 0.4×	281 0.3×	201 0.3×	102 0.5×	44	1.5k
Sergio D. Felicelli United States	31	1.7k 0.6×	431 0.3×	834 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	58 0.3×	84	2.4k
Stephen Lin United States	16	1.5k 0.5×	994 0.8×	132 0.2×	273 0.4×	229 1.2×	22	1.8k
M.J. Roy United Kingdom	24	1.4k 0.5×	311 0.2×	342 0.4×	289 0.4×	42 0.2×	65	1.6k

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Rolchigo, Matt, et al.. (2025). On the numerical sensitivity of cellular automata grain structure predictions to large thermal gradients and cooling rates. Computational Materials Science. 249. 113648–113648. 1 indexed citations

Richter, Nicholas A., Ying Yang, Alex Plotkowski, et al.. (2024). Effect of Si impurities on microstructure and tensile properties of a cast Al-Mg-Fe alloy. Materials Science and Engineering A. 923. 147682–147682. 3 indexed citations

Shin, Dongwon, Richard A. Michi, Jonathan D. Poplawsky, et al.. (2024). Effect of microalloying additions on microstructural evolution and thermal stability in cast Al-Ni alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 997. 174810–174810. 10 indexed citations

Rakhmonov, Jovid, Sumit Bahl, Amit Shyam, et al.. (2024). Dual X-ray computed tomography-aided classification of melt pool boundaries and flaws in crept additively manufactured parts. Materials Characterization. 217. 114317–114317. 2 indexed citations

Rakhmonov, Jovid, Richard A. Michi, Sumit Bahl, et al.. (2024). Creep deformation and cavitation in an additively manufactured Al-8.6Cu-0.4Mn-0.9Zr (wt%) alloy. Additive manufacturing. 84. 104097–104097. 6 indexed citations

Roy, Indranil, et al.. (2024). Understanding solidification of near eutectic alloy using Cellular Automata (CA). Computational Materials Science. 236. 112835–112835. 5 indexed citations

Bahl, Sumit, Richard A. Michi, Ke An, et al.. (2024). An additively manufactured near-eutectic Al-Ce-Ni-Mn-Zr alloy with high creep resistance. Acta Materialia. 268. 119787–119787. 32 indexed citations

Ziabari, Amirkoushyar, Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Zackary Snow, et al.. (2023). Enabling rapid X-ray CT characterisation for additive manufacturing using CAD models and deep learning-based reconstruction. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 28 indexed citations

Plotkowski, Alex, et al.. (2023). Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Hypoeutectic Al-6ce-3ni-0.7fe (Wt.%) Alloy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Fancher, Chris M., Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Thomas Feldhausen, Kyle Saleeby, & Alex Plotkowski. (2023). Validating the Use of Gaussian Process Regression for Adaptive Mapping of Residual Stress Fields. Materials. 16(10). 3854–3854. 2 indexed citations

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Plotkowski, Alex, Kyle Saleeby, Chris M. Fancher, et al.. (2023). Operando neutron diffraction reveals mechanisms for controlled strain evolution in 3D printing. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4950–4950. 22 indexed citations

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Venkatakrishnan, Singanallur, Chris M. Fancher, Maxim Ziatdinov, et al.. (2023). Adaptive sampling for accelerating neutron diffraction-based strain mapping ^*. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 4(2). 25001–25001. 4 indexed citations

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Bahl, Sumit, Alex Plotkowski, Thomas R. Watkins, et al.. (2023). 3D Printed eutectic aluminum alloy has facility for site-specific properties. Additive manufacturing. 70. 103551–103551. 8 indexed citations

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Kannan, Rangasayee, Gerry Knapp, Peeyush Nandwana, et al.. (2022). Data Mining and Visualization of High-Dimensional ICME Data for Additive Manufacturing. Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation. 11(1). 57–70. 8 indexed citations

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Michi, Richard A., Sumit Bahl, Chris M. Fancher, et al.. (2022). Load shuffling during creep deformation of an additively manufactured AlCuMnZr alloy. Acta Materialia. 244. 118557–118557. 22 indexed citations

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Rolchigo, Matt, et al.. (2022). ExaCA: A performance portable exascale cellular automata application for alloy solidification modeling. Computational Materials Science. 214. 111692–111692. 35 indexed citations

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List, F.A., et al.. (2021). Role of scan strategies and heat treatment on grain structure evolution in Fe-Si soft magnetic alloys made by laser-powder bed fusion. Additive manufacturing. 50. 102578–102578. 19 indexed citations

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Stump, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Solidification dynamics in metal additive manufacturing: analysis of model assumptions ^*. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 29(3). 35001–35001. 20 indexed citations

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Stump, Benjamin & Alex Plotkowski. (2019). An adaptive integration scheme for heat conduction in additive manufacturing. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 75. 787–805. 53 indexed citations

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Knapp, Gerry, Nagarajan Raghavan, Alex Plotkowski, & T. DebRoy. (2018). Experiments and simulations on solidification microstructure for Inconel 718 in powder bed fusion electron beam additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing. 25. 511–521. 115 indexed citations

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