Dong Ruan

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
295 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Dong Ruan is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Dong Ruan has authored 295 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 89 papers in Materials Chemistry and 78 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Dong Ruan's work include Cellular and Composite Structures (130 papers), High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior (71 papers) and Mechanical Behavior of Composites (35 papers). Dong Ruan is often cited by papers focused on Cellular and Composite Structures (130 papers), High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior (71 papers) and Mechanical Behavior of Composites (35 papers). Dong Ruan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Singapore. Dong Ruan's co-authors include Guoxing Lu, Lina Zhang, Syed H. Masood, Amer Alomarah, Shanqing Xu, Jianhu Shen, Tongxi Yu, Rafea Dakhil Hussein, Yvonne Durandet and Xiaodong Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Langmuir and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Dong Ruan

282 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Review of sandwich structures under impact loadings: Experimental, numerical and theoretical analysis

2023 144 citations Haoyuan Guo, Hui Yuan et al. Thin-Walled Structures profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dong Ruan Australia	59	6.3k	2.3k	2.0k	1.9k	1.5k	295	10.1k
Shubham Sharma India	56	6.3k 1.0×	836 0.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	501	12.5k
Heung Soo Kim South Korea	44	2.5k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	989 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	361	8.6k
Chuck Zhang United States	53	2.3k 0.4×	351 0.2×	3.9k 2.0×	1.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.6×	212	9.2k
Arno Kwade Germany	63	5.5k 0.9×	551 0.2×	1.6k 0.8×	518 0.3×	422 0.3×	509	14.9k
Hafız Muhammad Ali Saudi Arabia	87	16.5k 2.6×	1.1k 0.5×	2.9k 1.5×	923 0.5×	639 0.4×	495	24.4k
Bo Wang China	51	2.6k 0.4×	4.3k 1.9×	692 0.4×	3.8k 2.0×	480 0.3×	453	8.5k
Davood Toghraie Iran	102	15.7k 2.5×	455 0.2×	2.9k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	518 0.3×	660	26.9k
Kuldeep K. Saxena India	44	3.3k 0.5×	405 0.2×	1.5k 0.8×	751 0.4×	362 0.2×	459	6.9k
Jin Wang China	36	2.0k 0.3×	554 0.2×	425 0.2×	565 0.3×	553 0.4×	156	4.2k
Hua Li China	42	1.6k 0.3×	568 0.2×	966 0.5×	928 0.5×	263 0.2×	318	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Dong Ruan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dong Ruan

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Alomarah, Amer, et al.. (2025). Compressive performances of 3D-bio-inspired auxetic metamaterials: Design and experiments. Thin-Walled Structures. 220. 114355–114355.

Feng, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Full-field experiment-aided virtual modelling framework for inverse-based stochastic prediction of structures with elastoplasticity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 431. 117284–117284. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Feng, Chao Xu, Dong Ruan, et al.. (2024). The effect of electrical anisotropy on delamination detection sensitivity for structural health monitoring of laminated composites. Composite Structures. 347. 118463–118463. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Changyi, Hing‐Ho Tsang, Shanqing Xu, & Dong Ruan. (2024). Aluminum hierarchical tubular structure inspired by skeletal muscle tissues: Quasi-static and low-velocity impact testing. Engineering Structures. 314. 118439–118439. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Ye, et al.. (2024). Modified face-centred cubic lattice with enhanced mechanical properties. Engineering Structures. 315. 118440–118440. 2 indexed citations

Nguyen‐Van, Vuong, Chenxi Peng, Phuong Tran, et al.. (2024). Mechanical and dynamic performance of 3D-printed continuous carbon fibre Onyx composites. Thin-Walled Structures. 201. 111979–111979. 16 indexed citations

Ruan, Dong, et al.. (2023). Revisiting the effect of sabot on the incident signals of split-Hopkinson pressure bar. International Journal of Impact Engineering. 177. 104475–104475. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Ping, et al.. (2023). Crashworthiness analysis of the biomimetic lotus root lattice structure. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 263. 108774–108774. 39 indexed citations

Guo, Haoyuan, Hui Yuan, Jianxun Zhang, & Dong Ruan. (2023). Review of sandwich structures under impact loadings: Experimental, numerical and theoretical analysis. Thin-Walled Structures. 196. 111541–111541. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

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Du, Hongjian, et al.. (2023). Mechanical Properties of Graphene-Mortar at High Strain Rates. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, D. Sakthi, Dong Ruan, & S. N. Khaderi. (2023). Triaxial Characterization of Foams at High Strain Rate Using Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar. Experimental Mechanics. 63(7). 1171–1192. 6 indexed citations

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Alomarah, Amer, et al.. (2023). 3D printed auxetic stents with re-entrant and chiral topologies. Smart Materials and Structures. 32(11). 115028–115028. 20 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ye, et al.. (2023). Deformation and failure of additively manufactured Voronoi foams under dynamic compressive loadings. Engineering Structures. 284. 115954–115954. 18 indexed citations

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Alomarah, Amer, Ye Yuan, & Dong Ruan. (2023). A bio-inspired auxetic metamaterial with two plateau regimes: Compressive properties and energy absorption. Thin-Walled Structures. 192. 111175–111175. 71 indexed citations

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Du, Hongjian, et al.. (2023). Effect of graphene oxide on cement mortar under quasi-static and dynamic loading. Journal of Building Engineering. 74. 106783–106783. 16 indexed citations

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Durandet, Yvonne, et al.. (2022). Three-point bending performance of sandwich panels with various types of cores. Thin-Walled Structures. 179. 109723–109723. 57 indexed citations

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Tan, P.J., et al.. (2022). Failure mechanisms of corrugated sandwich panels under transverse three-point bending. Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials. 24(4). 1808–1827. 6 indexed citations

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Pang, Tong, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal bending of corrugated sandwich panels with cores of various shapes. Thin-Walled Structures. 173. 109001–109001. 26 indexed citations

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Ngo, Tuan, Steven Linforth, Alireza Kashani, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the effect of recycled rubber aggregate size on concrete for sustainable applications of rubberised concrete in impact resistant structures: Experimental and numerical study. Journal of Cleaner Production. 374. 133648–133648. 26 indexed citations

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Santiago, Rafael, et al.. (2018). Round-Robin test of split Hopkinson pressure bar. International Journal of Impact Engineering. 126. 62–75. 38 indexed citations

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