Irene J. Beyerlein

28.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
413 papers, 24.2k citations indexed

About

Irene J. Beyerlein is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene J. Beyerlein has authored 413 papers receiving a total of 24.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 335 papers in Materials Chemistry, 263 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 122 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Irene J. Beyerlein's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (276 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (151 papers) and Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications (115 papers). Irene J. Beyerlein is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (276 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (151 papers) and Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications (115 papers). Irene J. Beyerlein collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Irene J. Beyerlein's co-authors include C.N. Tomé, Jian Wang, Marko Knežević, Nathan A. Mara, Rodney J. McCabe, Amit Misra, Laurent Capolungo, Shuozhi Xu, John S. Carpenter and Shijian Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Irene J. Beyerlein

403 papers receiving 23.8k citations

Hit Papers

Heterostructured materials... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2020 2007 2015 2013 2009 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Heterostructured materials: superior properties from hetero-zone interaction
    2020 814 citations Irene J. Beyerlein, Enrique J. Lavernia et al. profile →
  2. A dislocation-based constitutive law for pure Zr including temperature effects
    2007 560 citations Irene J. Beyerlein, C.N. Tomé International Journal of Plasticity profile →
  3. Defect-interface interactions
    2015 498 citations Irene J. Beyerlein et al. profile →
  4. Radiation damage tolerant nanomaterials
    2013 467 citations Irene J. Beyerlein, Nathan A. Mara et al. profile →
  5. Texture evolution in equal-channel angular extrusion
    2009 432 citations Irene J. Beyerlein et al. profile →
  6. Effects of lattice distortion and chemical short-range order on the mechanisms of deformation in medium entropy alloy CoCrNi
    2020 312 citations Wu-Rong Jian, Shuozhi Xu et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  7. Multiplicity of dislocation pathways in a refractory multiprincipal element alloy
    2020 260 citations Shuozhi Xu, Jean‐Charles Stinville et al. profile →
  8. Heterostructured stainless steel: Properties, current trends, and future perspectives
    2022 179 citations Irene J. Beyerlein et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Irene J. Beyerlein United States 82 18.2k 17.2k 7.0k 6.5k 3.4k 413 24.2k
Günter Gottstein Germany 67 10.9k 0.6× 10.8k 0.6× 5.1k 0.7× 3.8k 0.6× 4.1k 1.2× 425 15.4k
C.N. Tomé United States 80 17.8k 1.0× 17.5k 1.0× 7.2k 1.0× 12.0k 1.8× 2.6k 0.8× 255 24.6k
Zenji Horita Japan 98 30.5k 1.7× 28.0k 1.6× 9.1k 1.3× 5.0k 0.8× 8.4k 2.5× 565 35.1k
W.A. Curtin United States 78 10.6k 0.6× 13.0k 0.8× 6.1k 0.9× 2.8k 0.4× 5.1k 1.5× 289 20.9k
Tresa M. Pollock United States 75 10.0k 0.5× 20.3k 1.2× 5.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.4× 7.3k 2.2× 459 25.1k
Lei Lu China 55 15.0k 0.8× 14.5k 0.8× 5.9k 0.8× 974 0.1× 2.9k 0.9× 164 19.8k
Jun Sun China 63 11.5k 0.6× 11.3k 0.7× 3.8k 0.5× 985 0.2× 4.1k 1.2× 574 17.7k
Amit Misra United States 79 17.7k 1.0× 12.2k 0.7× 7.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.2× 2.2k 0.7× 400 22.0k
Rajiv S. Mishra United States 80 9.7k 0.5× 28.9k 1.7× 2.9k 0.4× 3.1k 0.5× 12.1k 3.6× 583 31.0k
T. Ungár Hungary 62 11.5k 0.6× 10.7k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 927 0.1× 3.1k 0.9× 268 15.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garg, Pulkit, et al.. (2025). Role of temperature on screw dislocation dynamics in Ta, W, and Ta–W alloy. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 35. 5521–5536. 3 indexed citations
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Beyerlein, Irene J., et al.. (2024). Hierarchical nanolayered structures-enabled record-high fracture resistant zircaloy. Acta Materialia. 279. 120300–120300. 14 indexed citations
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Lamb, J., et al.. (2024). Resolving crystallographic geometrically necessary dislocations in three dimensions in a hexagonal close packed titanium alloy. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(6). 65035–65035. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, S. Mahajan, Irene J. Beyerlein, et al.. (2023). Twin nucleation from disconnection-dense sites between stacking fault pairs in a random defect network. Materialia. 30. 101835–101835. 4 indexed citations
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Jones, Morgan R., et al.. (2023). Phase-field dislocation dynamics simulations of temperature-dependent glide mechanisms in niobium. Computational Materials Science. 232. 112652–112652. 8 indexed citations
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Beyerlein, Irene J., et al.. (2023). Annealing cracking in Zr and a Zr-alloy with low hydrogen concentration. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 182. 165–175. 5 indexed citations
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Mathew, Nithin, et al.. (2023). A combined kinetic Monte Carlo and phase field approach to model thermally activated dislocation motion. Computational Materials Science. 230. 112490–112490. 8 indexed citations
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Stinville, Jean‐Charles, et al.. (2023). Slip localization behavior at triple junctions in nickel-base superalloys. Acta Materialia. 249. 118801–118801. 27 indexed citations
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Xu, Shuozhi, et al.. (2023). Interaction of extended dislocations with nanovoid clusters. International Journal of Plasticity. 168. 103684–103684. 12 indexed citations
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Gupta, Ankit, Wu-Rong Jian, Shuozhi Xu, Irene J. Beyerlein, & Garritt J. Tucker. (2022). On the deformation behavior of CoCrNi medium entropy alloys: Unraveling mechanistic competition. International Journal of Plasticity. 159. 103442–103442. 59 indexed citations
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Kumar, M. Arul, et al.. (2021). The effects of free surfaces on deformation twinning in HCP metals. Materialia. 17. 101124–101124. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Ning, Irene J. Beyerlein, Shijian Zheng, et al.. (2020). Interface facilitated transformation of voids directly into stacking fault tetrahedra. Acta Materialia. 188. 623–634. 32 indexed citations
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Livescu, Veronica, Irene J. Beyerlein, Curt A. Bronkhorst, et al.. (2019). Microstructure insensitive twinning: A statistical analysis of incipient twins in high-purity titanium. Materialia. 6. 100303–100303. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dalong, Lin Jiang, Xin Wang, et al.. (2019). In situ transmission electron microscopy investigation on 〈c+a〉 slip in Mg. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 34(9). 1499–1508. 13 indexed citations
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Beyerlein, Irene J., et al.. (2018). Stronger and more failure-resistant with three-dimensional serrated bimetal interfaces. Acta Materialia. 166. 231–245. 40 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dalong, Haiming Wen, M. Arul Kumar, et al.. (2016). Yield symmetry and reduced strength differential in Mg-2.5Y alloy. Acta Materialia. 120. 75–85. 118 indexed citations
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Zhou, Caizhi, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, et al.. (2014). Random organization in periodically driven gliding dislocations. Physics Letters A. 378(22-23). 1675–1678. 10 indexed citations
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Carpenter, John S., Shijian Zheng, Ruifeng Zhang, et al.. (2012). Thermal stability of Cu–Nb nanolamellar composites fabricated via accumulative roll bonding. The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics. 93(7). 718–735. 91 indexed citations
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Beyerlein, Irene J., Jian Wang, Matthew Barnett, & C.N. Tomé. (2012). Double twinning mechanisms in magnesium alloys via dissociation of lattice dislocations. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 468(2141). 1496–1520. 112 indexed citations
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Beyerlein, Irene J., Mäher S. Amer, Linda S. Schadler, & S. Leigh Phoenix. (1998). NEW METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING IN SITU FIBER, MATRIX AND INTERFACE STRESSES IN DAMAGED MULTIFIBER COMPOSITES. Science and Engineering of Composite Materials. 7(1-2). 151–204. 25 indexed citations

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