D. Ritchie

732 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 567 citations indexed

About

D. Ritchie is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Metals and Alloys. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Ritchie has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 567 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 3 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Metals and Alloys. Recurrent topics in D. Ritchie's work include Fatigue and fracture mechanics (3 papers), Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (2 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (1 paper). D. Ritchie is often cited by papers focused on Fatigue and fracture mechanics (3 papers), Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (2 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (1 paper). D. Ritchie collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom. D. Ritchie's co-authors include S. Suresh, J. Rhodes, R.H. Leggatt, Bo Fu and Gudfinnur Sigurdsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Metallurgical Transactions A, International Journal of Fracture and Strain.

In The Last Decade

D. Ritchie

6 papers receiving 510 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.

Oxide-Induced Crack Closure: An Explanation for Near-Threshold Corrosion Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior

1981 428 citations S. Suresh, D. Ritchie et al. Metallurgical Transactions A profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Ritchie Netherlands	5	464	339	188	158	132	6	567
Anton Bäumel Germany	12	289 0.6×	336 1.0×	268 1.4×	162 1.0×	181 1.4×	24	559
C.M. Branco Portugal	14	379 0.8×	395 1.2×	109 0.6×	80 0.5×	52 0.4×	34	493
K. Minakawa United States	9	504 1.1×	385 1.1×	213 1.1×	87 0.6×	96 0.7×	12	568
J.H. Bulloch South Africa	15	373 0.8×	491 1.4×	280 1.5×	54 0.3×	200 1.5×	83	629
J. Heerens Germany	13	432 0.9×	362 1.1×	178 0.9×	78 0.5×	59 0.4×	28	520
Bathias France	3	415 0.9×	311 0.9×	128 0.7×	99 0.6×	73 0.6×	3	469
Stephan Lambert Canada	9	409 0.9×	251 0.7×	131 0.7×	140 0.9×	73 0.6×	22	486
JM Barsom Japan	10	409 0.9×	275 0.8×	165 0.9×	144 0.9×	103 0.8×	18	481
O. Vosikovsky Canada	13	456 1.0×	311 0.9×	199 1.1×	150 0.9×	127 1.0×	28	532
RP Wei United States	14	558 1.2×	351 1.0×	300 1.6×	125 0.8×	215 1.6×	35	687

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Fu, Bo, et al.. (1999). Introduction and background to DNV RP-F101 Corroded Pipelines. The Proceedings of the ... International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. 2. 117–124. 19 indexed citations

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Ritchie, D., et al.. (1989). FRACTURE MECHANICS BASED PREDICTIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE SIZE OF TUBULAR JOINT TEST SPECIMENS ON THEIR FATIGUE LIFE. 7 indexed citations

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Ritchie, D. & R.H. Leggatt. (1987). The measurement of the distribution of residual stresses through the thickness of a welded joint. Strain. 23(2). 61–70. 26 indexed citations

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Ritchie, D.. (1986). A superposition approach to the calculation of stress intensity factors of cracks growing from stress concentrations. International Journal of Fracture. 30(2). R29–R32. 1 indexed citations

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Suresh, S., et al.. (1981). Oxide-Induced Crack Closure: An Explanation for Near-Threshold Corrosion Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior. Metallurgical Transactions A. 12(8). 1435–1443. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ritchie, D. & J. Rhodes. (1975). Buckling and Post-buckling Behaviour of Plates with Holes. Aeronautical Quarterly. 26(4). 281–296. 86 indexed citations

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