Gerry Knapp

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Gerry Knapp is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerry Knapp has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 17 papers in Automotive Engineering and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gerry Knapp's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (19 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (17 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (6 papers). Gerry Knapp is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (19 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (17 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (6 papers). Gerry Knapp collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Gerry Knapp's co-authors include T. DebRoy, Tuhin Mukherjee, Huiliang Wei, J.S. Zuback, A. De, Wei Zhang, Yanhong Wei, Wenmin Ou, Alex Plotkowski and Todd Palmer and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Acta Materialia and Progress in Materials Science.

In The Last Decade

Gerry Knapp

26 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Mechanistic models for additive manufacturing of metallic components

2020 392 citations Huiliang Wei, Tuhin Mukherjee et al. Progress in Materials Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerry Knapp United States	12	1.1k	709	275	169	110	28	1.4k
Karen M. Taminger United States	16	988 0.9×	691 1.0×	223 0.8×	231 1.4×	137 1.2×	41	1.2k
Sarah J. Wolff United States	20	1.5k 1.3×	908 1.3×	301 1.1×	239 1.4×	112 1.0×	43	1.7k
N.E. Hodge United States	12	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	295 1.1×	247 1.5×	65 0.6×	18	1.9k
Weijun Liu China	15	982 0.9×	360 0.5×	88 0.3×	174 1.0×	141 1.3×	93	1.2k
Gustavo Tapia United States	8	1.1k 0.9×	759 1.1×	355 1.3×	210 1.2×	26 0.2×	8	1.2k
Orion L. Kafka United States	18	1.1k 1.0×	647 0.9×	184 0.7×	300 1.8×	86 0.8×	43	1.6k
Stephen Lin United States	16	1.5k 1.3×	994 1.4×	229 0.8×	273 1.6×	132 1.2×	22	1.8k
Haley Doude United States	12	744 0.7×	422 0.6×	188 0.7×	84 0.5×	70 0.6×	23	827
Matthias Hirsch United Kingdom	10	1.3k 1.1×	815 1.1×	288 1.0×	95 0.6×	28 0.3×	15	1.5k
Vikas Rastogi India	16	496 0.4×	156 0.2×	109 0.4×	93 0.6×	192 1.7×	79	873

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20 of 20 papers shown

Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2025). Localized orientation gradients in additively manufactured stainless steel 316H structures. Materials Characterization. 223. 114860–114860.

Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2025). AdditiveFOAM: A Continuum Multiphysics Code for Additive Manufacturing. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(109). 7770–7770.

Ye, Jiahui, et al.. (2025). A high-throughput approach for statistical process optimization in Laser Powder Bed Fusion. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 147. 88–99. 1 indexed citations

Rolchigo, Matt, et al.. (2025). On the numerical sensitivity of cellular automata grain structure predictions to large thermal gradients and cooling rates. Computational Materials Science. 249. 113648–113648. 1 indexed citations

Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2025). Myna: Connecting powder bed fusion build data to simulation tools for digital twin applications. Computational Materials Science. 258. 114094–114094. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Holly J., Eric MacDonald, Mario Covarrubias, et al.. (2024). Influence of printing parameters on the mechanical behavior of 3D-printed SS316L parts manufactured using laser hot wire directed energy deposition. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 1 indexed citations

Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2024). A dynamic volumetric heat source model for laser additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing. 95. 104531–104531. 2 indexed citations

Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2023). Leveraging the digital thread for physics-based prediction of microstructure heterogeneity in additively manufactured parts. Additive manufacturing. 78. 103861–103861. 6 indexed citations

Butler, Leslie G., Kyungmin Ham, Gerry Knapp, et al.. (2023). Neutron Imaging of Al6061 Prepared by Solid-State Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing. Metals. 13(2). 188–188. 14 indexed citations

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Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2023). ORNL/AdditiveFOAM: Release 1.0. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 7 indexed citations

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Rolchigo, Matt, et al.. (2022). ExaCA: A performance portable exascale cellular automata application for alloy solidification modeling. Computational Materials Science. 214. 111692–111692. 35 indexed citations

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Kannan, Rangasayee, Gerry Knapp, Peeyush Nandwana, et al.. (2022). Data Mining and Visualization of High-Dimensional ICME Data for Additive Manufacturing. Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation. 11(1). 57–70. 8 indexed citations

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Zuback, J.S., Gerry Knapp, Todd Palmer, & T. DebRoy. (2020). Deposit geometry and oxygen concentration spatial variations due to composition change in printed functionally graded components. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 164. 120526–120526. 5 indexed citations

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Ou, Wenmin, Gerry Knapp, Tuhin Mukherjee, Yanhong Wei, & T. DebRoy. (2020). An improved heat transfer and fluid flow model of wire-arc additive manufacturing. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 167. 120835–120835. 52 indexed citations

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Wei, Huiliang, Tuhin Mukherjee, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2020). Mechanistic models for additive manufacturing of metallic components. Progress in Materials Science. 116. 100703–100703. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Huiliang, Gerry Knapp, Tuhin Mukherjee, & T. DebRoy. (2018). Three-dimensional grain growth during multi-layer printing of a nickel-based alloy Inconel 718. Additive manufacturing. 25. 448–459. 121 indexed citations

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Knapp, Gerry, Nagarajan Raghavan, Alex Plotkowski, & T. DebRoy. (2018). Experiments and simulations on solidification microstructure for Inconel 718 in powder bed fusion electron beam additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing. 25. 511–521. 115 indexed citations

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Ham, Kyungmin, et al.. (2017). Recent applications of X-ray grating interferometry imaging to evaluate flame retardancy performance of brominated flame retardant. Polymer Degradation and Stability. 138. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

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Knapp, Gerry, et al.. (2017). Neutron Imaging of Laser Melted SS316 Test Objects with Spatially Resolved Small Angle Neutron Scattering. Journal of Imaging. 3(4). 58–58. 11 indexed citations

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Scherr, Thomas, Gerry Knapp, Daniel S. Park, et al.. (2015). Microfluidics and numerical simulation as methods for standardization of zebrafish sperm cell activation. Biomedical Microdevices. 17(3). 65–65. 26 indexed citations

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