Balakumar Balachandran

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
225 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Balakumar Balachandran is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Balakumar Balachandran has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 50 papers in Computational Mechanics and 48 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Balakumar Balachandran's work include Vibration and Dynamic Analysis (32 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (30 papers) and Drilling and Well Engineering (21 papers). Balakumar Balachandran is often cited by papers focused on Vibration and Dynamic Analysis (32 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (30 papers) and Drilling and Well Engineering (21 papers). Balakumar Balachandran collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Portugal. Balakumar Balachandran's co-authors include Ali H. Nayfeh, Nicholas Vlajic, Xinhua Long, Xianbo Liu, Guang Meng, Sergio Preidikman, Xiaohong Long, Miao Yu, Timothy Fitzgerald and Tony J. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Scientific Reports and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Balakumar Balachandran

222 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

Applied Nonlinear Dynamics 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Applied Nonlinear Dynamics
    1995 1.5k citations Balakumar Balachandran 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
Balakumar Balachandran United States 43 1.9k 1.9k 1.8k 1.2k 1.1k 225 6.4k
Marian Wiercigroch United Kingdom 51 2.9k 1.5× 2.8k 1.5× 2.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 2.2k 2.0× 293 8.4k
Steven W. Shaw United States 48 1.4k 0.7× 3.7k 2.0× 3.2k 1.8× 982 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 216 7.9k
Dean T. Mook United States 35 1.2k 0.6× 3.7k 1.9× 2.7k 1.5× 928 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 123 8.4k
Jan Awrejcewicz Poland 42 1.9k 1.0× 2.6k 1.4× 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 2.5k 2.3× 747 9.7k
Grzegorz Litak Poland 42 3.5k 1.8× 1.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 1.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 318 6.5k
Francis C. Moon United States 43 1.3k 0.7× 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 0.7× 1.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.7× 164 7.2k
Gaëtan Kerschen Belgium 42 1.9k 1.0× 2.6k 1.4× 6.5k 3.6× 862 0.7× 892 0.8× 214 8.4k
J. Woodhouse United Kingdom 37 1.2k 0.6× 663 0.4× 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.4× 326 0.3× 171 5.3k
Haiyan Hu China 43 1.5k 0.8× 3.1k 1.6× 1.9k 1.1× 682 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 360 7.6k
Christophe Pierre United States 48 1.8k 0.9× 3.1k 1.7× 5.6k 3.1× 831 0.7× 457 0.4× 269 8.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Palacios, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Hopf Bifurcation in Systems with Dihedral Group Symmetry: Broken Rotation Symmetry. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
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Balachandran, Balakumar, et al.. (2025). Nonlinear Vibration Attenuation Via Stochastic Response Modification. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 20(8). 1 indexed citations
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Balachandran, Balakumar, et al.. (2024). Prediction of freak waves from buoy measurements. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16048–16048. 3 indexed citations
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Ide, Kayo, et al.. (2024). Missing values imputation in ocean buoy time series data. Ocean Engineering. 318. 120145–120145. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianbo, Guang Meng, & Balakumar Balachandran. (2023). Drill-string stability and stress localization: Influence of complex delay effects and dry friction. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 157. 104559–104559. 10 indexed citations
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Ide, Kayo, et al.. (2023). Simulations of modulated plane waves using weakly compressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Engineering With Computers. 40(3). 1831–1856. 1 indexed citations
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Balachandran, Balakumar, et al.. (2023). Control of a Spacecraft Rendezvous with an Asteroid and Proximity Maneuvering. AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum. 2 indexed citations
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Cameron, Maria, et al.. (2023). Influence of noise on a rotating, softening cantilever beam. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 159. 104582–104582. 1 indexed citations
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Agarwal, Vipin, Rui Wang, & Balakumar Balachandran. (2021). Data driven forecasting of aperiodic motions of non-autonomous systems. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 31(2). 21105–21105. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianbo, et al.. (2020). COVID-19: data-driven dynamics, statistical and distributed delay models, and observations. Nonlinear Dynamics. 101(3). 1527–1543. 33 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianbo, et al.. (2019). Spatial-temporal dynamics of a drill string with complex time-delay effects: Bit bounce and stick-slip oscillations. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 170. 105338–105338. 73 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianbo, Nicholas Vlajic, Xinhua Long, Guang Meng, & Balakumar Balachandran. (2014). Multiple regenerative effects in cutting process and nonlinear oscillations. International Journal of Dynamics and Control. 2(1). 86–101. 42 indexed citations
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Vlajic, Nicholas, et al.. (2014). Geometrically exact planar beams with initial pre-stress and large curvature: Static configurations, natural frequencies, and mode shapes. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 51(19-20). 3361–3371. 26 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianbo, Nicholas Vlajic, Xinhua Long, Guang Meng, & Balakumar Balachandran. (2012). Nonlinear motions of a flexible rotor with a drill bit: stick-slip and delay effects. Nonlinear Dynamics. 72(1-2). 61–77. 127 indexed citations
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Fitzgerald, Timothy, et al.. (2011). A comparison of computational models for fluid-structure interation studies of flexible flapping wing systems. 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. 5 indexed citations
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Balachandran, Balakumar, Tamás Kalmár‐Nagy, & David E. Gilsinn. (2009). Delay differential equations : recent advances and new directions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 110 indexed citations
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Mook, Dean T. & Balakumar Balachandran. (2001). 18th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise. American Society of Mechanical Engineers eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Balachandran, Balakumar. (2001). Nonlinear dynamics of milling processes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 359(1781). 793–819. 160 indexed citations
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Davies, Matthew A. & Balakumar Balachandran. (1996). Impact Dynamics in the Milling of Thin-Walled Structures. 67–72. 6 indexed citations

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