Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 20 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 16 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza's work include Fire effects on concrete materials (22 papers), Fire dynamics and safety research (19 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (18 papers). Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on concrete materials (22 papers), Fire dynamics and safety research (19 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (18 papers). Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Colombia. Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza's co-authors include Maria Garlock, Víctor Yepes, Fernando González‐Vidosa, José Alós Moya, Li Gu, Venkatesh Kodur, Pedro A. Calderón, José M. Adam, José Antonio Lozano-Galant and Benjamín Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as Engineering Structures, Journal of Structural Engineering and Sensors and Actuators A Physical.

In The Last Decade

Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza

69 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Fire hazard in bridges: Review, assessment and repair strategies

2012 248 citations Maria Garlock, Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza et al. Engineering Structures profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza Spain	22	1.4k	504	449	181	148	75	1.7k
Jian Jiang China	26	1.8k 1.3×	444 0.9×	617 1.4×	20 0.1×	138 0.9×	149	2.1k
Long Phan United States	20	1.5k 1.1×	292 0.6×	422 0.9×	35 0.2×	100 0.7×	59	1.8k
Guanglin Yuan China	19	781 0.6×	155 0.3×	309 0.7×	16 0.1×	61 0.4×	70	995
Paolo Castaldo Italy	33	2.3k 1.6×	154 0.3×	737 1.6×	54 0.3×	150 1.0×	89	2.4k
Brent Phares United States	18	1.1k 0.8×	35 0.1×	276 0.6×	93 0.5×	182 1.2×	131	1.3k
Joaquim Figueiras Portugal	27	2.2k 1.6×	56 0.1×	783 1.7×	200 1.1×	250 1.7×	74	2.5k
Qiao Huang China	19	713 0.5×	69 0.1×	164 0.4×	68 0.4×	136 0.9×	55	861
Daniel G. Linzell United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	51 0.1×	228 0.5×	20 0.1×	255 1.7×	97	1.3k
Guoqing Zhu China	20	125 0.1×	939 1.9×	120 0.3×	80 0.4×	63 0.4×	160	1.3k
Guido Morgenthal Germany	21	859 0.6×	37 0.1×	274 0.6×	83 0.5×	310 2.1×	87	1.4k

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2025). Modeling fire resistance of timber columns: Influence of elevated-temperature material models in finite element analysis. Structures. 82. 110629–110629.

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2025). Probabilistic risk assessment of historic timber flooring systems subjected to fire. Developments in the Built Environment. 22. 100659–100659. 1 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2024). New beam-based models for fire-induced buckling analysis of class 4 steel columns. Heliyon. 10(5). e26951–e26951. 1 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2024). Post-fire assessment of composite steel-concrete box-girder bridges: Lessons from a recent incident. Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 214. 108425–108425. 4 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2023). From Flames to Resilience: New Perspectives for the Design of Structures Against Fire Hazards. Structural Engineering International. 33(4). 547–547. 1 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2022). Fire in heritage and historic buildings, a major challenge for the 21st century. Developments in the Built Environment. 13. 100102–100102. 40 indexed citations

Gernay, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Probabilistic Models for Temperature-Dependent Compressive and Tensile Strengths of Timber. Journal of Structural Engineering. 149(2). 6 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2021). Analysis of the fire resistance of timber jack arch flooring systems used in historical buildings. Engineering Structures. 243. 112679–112679. 18 indexed citations

Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2021). New modeling strategies for analyzing lateral-torsional buckling in class-4 steel structural members at elevated temperatures using beam-type elements. Structures. 34. 3508–3532. 9 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2021). A new methodology using beam elements for the analysis of steel frames subjected to non-uniform temperatures due to fires. Structures. 31. 462–483. 6 indexed citations

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Lozano-Galant, José Antonio, et al.. (2020). Calibration of the descent local search algorithm parameters using orthogonal arrays. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 35(9). 997–1008. 7 indexed citations

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Moya, José Alós, et al.. (2018). Valencia bridge fire tests: Validation of simplified and advanced numerical approaches to model bridge fire scenarios. Advances in Engineering Software. 128. 55–68. 36 indexed citations

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Moya, José Alós, et al.. (2017). Valencia bridge fire tests: Experimental study of a composite bridge under fire. Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 138. 538–554. 57 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2015). Analysis of the influence of geometric, modeling and environmental parameters on the fire response of steel bridges subjected to realistic fire scenarios. Computers & Structures. 158. 333–345. 53 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, et al.. (2015). Analysis of the Influence of Structural Models in Fire Responses of Steel Girder Bridges. 88. 160–171. 5 indexed citations

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Moya, José Alós, et al.. (2014). Analysis of a bridge failure due to fire using computational fluid dynamics and finite element models. Engineering Structures. 68. 96–110. 119 indexed citations

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Lozano-Galant, José Antonio, et al.. (2011). Calculation of the Objective Service State in Cable-Stayed Bridges. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, Víctor Yepes, & Fernando González‐Vidosa. (2010). On the Weibull cost estimation of building frames designed by simulated annealing. Meccanica. 45(5). 693–704. 46 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, Víctor Yepes, & Fernando González‐Vidosa. (2009). CO2-optimization of reinforced concrete frames by simulated annealing. Engineering Structures. 31(7). 1501–1508. 141 indexed citations

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Payá-Zaforteza, Ignacio, Víctor Yepes, & Fernando González‐Pérez. (2006). Multiobjective Simulated Annealing Optimization of Concrete Building Frames. 1–8. 6 indexed citations

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