Giang D. Nguyen

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Giang D. Nguyen is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giang D. Nguyen has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 74 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 36 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Giang D. Nguyen's work include Rock Mechanics and Modeling (68 papers), Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (33 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (32 papers). Giang D. Nguyen is often cited by papers focused on Rock Mechanics and Modeling (68 papers), Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions (33 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (32 papers). Giang D. Nguyen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Giang D. Nguyen's co-authors include Ha H. Bui, Itai Einav, Murat Karakus, Alexander M. Korsunsky, G. T. Houlsby, Luming Shen, Irene Guiamatsia, Arghya Das, Thang Nguyen and Abbas Taheri and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Giang D. Nguyen

137 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and its applications in geomechanics: From solid fracture to granular behaviour and multiphase flows in porous media

2021 172 citations Ha H. Bui, Giang D. Nguyen Computers and Geotechnics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giang D. Nguyen Australia	41	2.4k	2.2k	1.2k	1.0k	664	142	4.3k
J. Tejchman Poland	42	2.5k 1.1×	3.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	605 0.9×	210	5.6k
Ha H. Bui Australia	39	1.7k 0.7×	3.1k 1.4×	2.2k 1.8×	1.3k 1.2×	418 0.6×	140	4.8k
Itai Einav Australia	35	1.6k 0.7×	2.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	359 0.5×	143	4.6k
Qizhi Zhu China	36	3.6k 1.5×	1.7k 0.8×	426 0.4×	708 0.7×	496 0.7×	146	4.2k
Jianguo Ning China	33	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	676 0.6×	304 0.3×	1.1k 1.7×	208	3.7k
Catherine O’Sullivan United Kingdom	48	1.7k 0.7×	5.5k 2.5×	2.5k 2.1×	2.6k 2.5×	302 0.5×	190	7.5k
Edward Andò France	33	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	948 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	230 0.3×	110	3.6k
Ching S. Chang United States	41	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	606 0.9×	140	4.7k
D.O. Potyondy United States	15	4.2k 1.8×	2.5k 1.1×	877 0.7×	2.1k 2.0×	442 0.7×	33	5.6k
L. Rothenburg Canada	30	1.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	363 0.5×	94	4.0k

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Karakus, Murat, et al.. (2025). Experimental Investigation of Burst Failure Mechanism Under Polyaxial Loading Conditions. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 58(4). 4247–4262. 2 indexed citations

Karakus, Murat, et al.. (2025). SPH-based modelling of the entire rock caving process: insights into failure mechanisms. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 194. 106228–106228.

Nguyen, Nhan T., et al.. (2024). Controlling behaviour of constitutive models for rocks using energy dissipations. International Journal of Plasticity. 184. 104196–104196. 7 indexed citations

Nguyen, Lam Van, et al.. (2024). Basal cell carcinoma of the nose tip: A case report of precision surgery and local flap reconstruction. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 126. 110737–110737.

Bui, Ha H., et al.. (2024). Development of free-field and compliant base SPH boundary conditions for large deformation seismic response analysis of geomechanics problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 432. 117370–117370. 13 indexed citations

Bui, Ha H., et al.. (2024). Mechanism-based shift factors to predict the fatigue performance of cemented pavement materials. Acta Geotechnica. 19(11). 7149–7168.

Karakus, Murat, et al.. (2024). Micro- and macro-scale fracture behaviour of brittle rocks: Comparison between the conventional Brazilian test and the advanced universal snap-back indirect tensile test (AUSBIT). International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 183. 105897–105897. 7 indexed citations

Karakus, Murat, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the discrepancies in measuring applied stresses using Tangent Modulus Method (TMM). Procedia Structural Integrity. 45. 60–65.

Nguyen, Giang D., et al.. (2023). Capturing the transition from diffuse to localised failure in constitutive modelling of partially saturated soils. International Journal of Plasticity. 171. 103783–103783. 9 indexed citations

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Ma, Guodong, et al.. (2022). A five-phase approach, SPH framework and applications for predictions of seepage-induced internal erosion and failure in unsaturated/saturated porous media. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 401. 115614–115614. 41 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Giang D., et al.. (2021). AUSBIT: A Novel Approach to Capturing Snapback in Indirect Tensile Testing. 1 indexed citations

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Bui, Ha H., et al.. (2021). Hybrid Discrete-Continuum Approach to Model Hydromechanical Behavior of Soil during Desiccation. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 147(10). 14 indexed citations

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Karakus, Murat, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of the propensity of strain burst in brittle granite based on post-peak energy analysis. Underground Space. 6(1). 1–11. 57 indexed citations

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Tran, Hieu, Yingnan Wang, Giang D. Nguyen, et al.. (2019). Modelling 3D desiccation cracking in clayey soils using a size-dependent SPH computational approach. Computers and Geotechnics. 116. 103209–103209. 56 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Nhu H.T., Ha H. Bui, Jayantha Kodikara, et al.. (2017). Discrete element modelling of fracture in quasi-brittle materials. Own your potential (DEAKIN). 2 indexed citations

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Flores‐Johnson, E.A., Luming Shen, Irene Guiamatsia, & Giang D. Nguyen. (2014). Numerical investigation of the impact behaviour of bioinspired nacre-like aluminium composite plates. Composites Science and Technology. 96. 13–22. 135 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Giang D.. (2014). An enriched constitutive modelling framework for localised failure of geomaterials. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 33–39. 1 indexed citations

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Guiamatsia, Irene & Giang D. Nguyen. (2013). A thermodynamics-based cohesive model for interface debonding and friction. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 51(3-4). 647–659. 39 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Giang D.. (2011). A damage model with evolving nonlocal interactions. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 48(10). 1544–1559. 46 indexed citations

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Levy, Gad, Max D. Coon, Giang D. Nguyen, & Deborah Sulsky. (2010). Physically-based data assimilation. Geoscientific model development. 3(2). 669–677. 6 indexed citations

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