Bruce W. Drinkwater

17.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
298 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

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Bruce W. Drinkwater is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce W. Drinkwater has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 130 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 115 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bruce W. Drinkwater's work include Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (154 papers), Non-Destructive Testing Techniques (102 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (67 papers). Bruce W. Drinkwater is often cited by papers focused on Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation (154 papers), Non-Destructive Testing Techniques (102 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (67 papers). Bruce W. Drinkwater collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Romania and United States. Bruce W. Drinkwater's co-authors include Paul D. Wilcox, Asier Marzo, R.S. Dwyer-Joyce, Jie Zhang, C Holmes, Anthony J. Croxford, Sriram Subramanian, Mihai Caleap, Sue Ann Seah and Benjamin Long and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bruce W. Drinkwater

286 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Ultrasonic arrays for non-destructive evaluation: A review

2006 853 citations Bruce W. Drinkwater, Paul D. Wilcox NDT & E International profile →
Post-processing of the full matrix of ultrasonic transmit–receive array data for non-destructive evaluation

2005 810 citations Bruce W. Drinkwater, Paul D. Wilcox et al. NDT & E International profile →
Holographic acoustic elements for manipulation of levitated objects

2015 689 citations Asier Marzo, Bruce W. Drinkwater et al. profile →
Holographic acoustic tweezers

2018 402 citations Asier Marzo, Bruce W. Drinkwater profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce W. Drinkwater United Kingdom	56	6.8k	5.4k	5.0k	2.5k	1.9k	298	13.0k
Xi‐Qiao Feng China	66	6.9k 1.0×	5.7k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	274 0.1×	2.5k 1.3×	594	21.9k
David B. Bogy United States	46	8.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.3×	4.8k 1.0×	487 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	458	12.5k
Massimo Ruzzene United States	67	3.7k 0.5×	8.6k 1.6×	5.7k 1.1×	519 0.2×	3.6k 1.8×	357	14.1k
Ronald S. Fearing United States	59	4.6k 0.7×	8.6k 1.6×	4.7k 0.9×	465 0.2×	381 0.2×	218	16.1k
Paul Steinmann Germany	62	7.2k 1.1×	6.0k 1.1×	2.9k 0.6×	289 0.1×	2.8k 1.5×	613	15.4k
Katia Bertoldi United States	78	2.4k 0.4×	13.8k 2.6×	14.1k 2.8×	338 0.1×	4.1k 2.1×	221	23.6k
Thomas W. Kenny United States	63	3.6k 0.5×	7.8k 1.4×	2.1k 0.4×	687 0.3×	648 0.3×	397	19.0k
D.A. Hutchins United Kingdom	42	3.7k 0.5×	2.4k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	910 0.4×	632 0.3×	303	6.5k
Wenming Zhang China	49	821 0.1×	2.6k 0.5×	3.2k 0.6×	548 0.2×	2.1k 1.1×	277	8.3k
Krishnan Balasubramaniam India	41	4.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	2.7k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	457	6.8k

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Zhang, Jie, et al.. (2025). A multi-view ultrasonic imaging solution for buried sewer pipe inspection. Ultrasonics. 156. 107762–107762.

Meng, Yuhan, Jie Zhang, Zhenyu Hong, & Bruce W. Drinkwater. (2025). Numerical and experimental study of circular array to enhance acoustic tweezer-based particle manipulation. Ultrasonics. 152. 107647–107647.

Watts, W. E., John L. Crompton, Kate J. Heesom, et al.. (2025). Brief transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation causes lasting modifications to the synaptic circuitry of the hippocampus. Brain stimulation. 18(5). 1587–1599.

Armstrong, James P. K., et al.. (2024). Ultrasonic manipulation of particles and cell aggregates with simultaneous acoustic visualization. Applied Physics Letters. 124(20). 2 indexed citations

Jepson, Mark A., Kate J. Heesom, Eunju Shin, et al.. (2023). Ultrasound modulates neuronal potassium currents via ionotropic glutamate receptors. Brain stimulation. 16(2). 540–552. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Jie, et al.. (2023). A Manufacturability‐Driven Method for Designing Metamaterial Focusing Acoustical Lenses. Advanced Engineering Materials. 26(3).

Zhang, Jie, Xudong Niu, Anthony J. Croxford, & Bruce W. Drinkwater. (2023). Pipe inspection using guided acoustic wave sensors integrated with mobile robots. NDT & E International. 139. 102929–102929. 6 indexed citations

Guenneau, Sébastien, et al.. (2023). Transformation twinning to create isospectral cavities. Physical review. B.. 108(6). 1 indexed citations

Dholakia, Kishan, Bruce W. Drinkwater, & Monika Ritsch‐Marte. (2020). Comparing acoustic and optical forces for biomedical research. Nature Reviews Physics. 2(9). 480–491. 99 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, Bruce W., et al.. (2020). Sonolithography: In‐Air Ultrasonic Particulate and Droplet Manipulation for Multiscale Surface Patterning. Advanced Materials Technologies. 6(3). 12 indexed citations

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Armstrong, James P. K., et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal quantification of acoustic cell patterning using Voronoï tessellation. Lab on a Chip. 19(4). 562–573. 31 indexed citations

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Croxford, Anthony J., et al.. (2018). Acoustic Lock: Position and orientation trapping of non-spherical sub-wavelength particles in mid-air using a single-axis acoustic levitator. Applied Physics Letters. 113(5). 55 indexed citations

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Hong, Zhenyu, et al.. (2017). Dynamics of levitated objects in acoustic vortex fields. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7093–7093. 46 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, Bruce W., et al.. (2017). MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED COMPOSITE MATERIALS WITH ULTRASONICALLY ASSEMBLED REINFORCEMENT.. Explore Bristol Research. 1 indexed citations

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Courtney, C. R. P., Christine Démoré, A. Grinenko, et al.. (2014). Independent trapping and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers. Applied Physics Letters. 104(15). 154103–154103. 172 indexed citations

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Croxford, Anthony J., Paul D. Wilcox, George Konstantinidis, & Bruce W. Drinkwater. (2007). Strategies for overcoming the effect of temperature on guided wave structural health monitoring. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6532. 65321T–65321T. 52 indexed citations

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Dwyer-Joyce, R.S., et al.. (2004). Evaluation of an ultrasonic oil film measurement technique for PTFE faced thrust pad bearings. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 2 indexed citations

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Marshall, Matthew, R. W. C. Lewis, Bruce W. Drinkwater, & R.S. Dwyer-Joyce. (2004). An approach for contact stress mapping in joints and concentrated contacts. The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design. 339–350. 5 indexed citations

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Dwyer-Joyce, R.S., et al.. (2000). Ultrasound as an experimental tool for investigating engineering contacts. Tribologia - Finnish Journal of Tribology. 9–17. 18 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, Bruce W. & P. Cawley. (1996). The practical application of solid coupled ultrasonic transducers. Materials Evaluation. 55(3). 2041–2044. 7 indexed citations

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