Ansgar Kirsch

432 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 343 citations indexed

About

Ansgar Kirsch is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ansgar Kirsch has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 343 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 4 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 1 paper in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Ansgar Kirsch's work include Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (4 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (3 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (2 papers). Ansgar Kirsch is often cited by papers focused on Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis (4 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (3 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (2 papers). Ansgar Kirsch collaborates with scholars based in Austria and Germany. Ansgar Kirsch's co-authors include Dimitrios Kolymbas, Wolfgang Fellin, Michael Oberguggenberger, Julian King and Katharina Kluge and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Structural Safety and Acta Geotechnica.

In The Last Decade

Ansgar Kirsch

7 papers receiving 341 citations

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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.

Experimental investigation of the face stability of shallow tunnels in sand

2010 277 citations Ansgar Kirsch Acta Geotechnica profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ansgar Kirsch Austria	5	320	315	47	29	14	7	343
Xinsheng Yin China	7	423 1.3×	376 1.2×	34 0.7×	27 0.9×	14 1.0×	9	439
E Leca France	5	614 1.9×	622 2.0×	76 1.6×	30 1.0×	6 0.4×	11	639
Lvjun Tang China	3	401 1.3×	391 1.2×	28 0.6×	27 0.9×	15 1.1×	6	416
Mirva Koskinen Finland	5	395 1.2×	138 0.4×	34 0.7×	50 1.7×	4 0.3×	9	417
Qiguang Di China	11	348 1.1×	335 1.1×	55 1.2×	21 0.7×	22 1.6×	12	371
Masaya Hinokio Japan	6	285 0.9×	113 0.4×	25 0.5×	38 1.3×	15 1.1×	14	296
Gregor Idinger Austria	3	292 0.9×	264 0.8×	42 0.9×	85 2.9×	6 0.4×	3	322
Robert L. Mokwa United States	9	412 1.3×	113 0.4×	17 0.4×	20 0.7×	5 0.4×	27	425
Xiaolu Gan China	11	303 0.9×	215 0.7×	30 0.6×	16 0.6×	39 2.8×	22	329
Mello C. Papadopoulou Greece	9	371 1.2×	159 0.5×	18 0.4×	11 0.4×	14 1.0×	12	379

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Kluge, Katharina, et al.. (2022). Digitale Lehre in der Geotechnik: Aktueller Stand und weitere Entwicklungen. geotechnik. 46(1). 48–55. 2 indexed citations

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Fellin, Wolfgang, Julian King, Ansgar Kirsch, & Michael Oberguggenberger. (2010). Uncertainty modelling and sensitivity analysis of tunnel face stability. Structural Safety. 32(6). 402–410. 25 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Ansgar. (2010). Experimental investigation of the face stability of shallow tunnels in sand. Acta Geotechnica. 5(1). 43–62. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kirsch, Ansgar, et al.. (2009). Numerical investigation of the effectiveness of a bored pile wall for the minimisation of settlement resulting from tunnel driving. Geomechanics and Tunnelling. 2(6). 753–765. 7 indexed citations

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Kolymbas, Dimitrios, Wolfgang Fellin, & Ansgar Kirsch. (2006). Squeezing due to stress relaxation in foliated rock. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 30(13). 1357–1367. 9 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Ansgar & Dimitrios Kolymbas. (2005). Theoretische Untersuchung zur Ortsbruststabilität. Bautechnik. 82(7). 449–456. 21 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Ansgar. (1973). A proposed dynamic stability solution. 2 indexed citations

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