John Challen

932 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 676 citations indexed

About

John Challen is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Challen has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 676 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Challen's work include Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (4 papers), Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (4 papers) and Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques (2 papers). John Challen is often cited by papers focused on Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (4 papers), Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (4 papers) and Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques (2 papers). John Challen collaborates with scholars based in Australia. John Challen's co-authors include P.L.B. Oxley and E.D. Doyle and has published in prestigious journals such as Wear, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Challen

8 papers receiving 644 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An explanation of the different regimes of friction and wear using asperity deformation models

1979 394 citations John Challen, P.L.B. Oxley Wear profile →

Peers

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T. Hisakado Japan

K.L. Johnson United Kingdom

С. М. Айзикович Russia

T. Kayaba Japan

Abdeljalil Jourani France

W. E. Littmann Germany

Kuniaki Dohda Japan

T. Z. Blazynski United Kingdom

H.‐P. Gänser Austria

Yuri Kadin Netherlands

T. Hisakado Japan

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433 ×1.0

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55 ×1.4

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Countries citing papers authored by John Challen

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Challen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Challen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Challen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Challen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Challen. John Challen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Challen, John. (2022). Pole Position. 2022(3). 16–18. 1 indexed citations

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Challen, John. (2012). What Lies Beneath. Motion Picture.

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Challen, John. (1988). Diesel engine sensing techniques. Automotive engineering. 96(6). 1 indexed citations

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Challen, John, et al.. (1986). Prediction of Archard's wear coefficient for metallic sliding friction assuming a low cycle fatigue wear mechanism. Wear. 111(3). 275–288. 89 indexed citations

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Challen, John, et al.. (1984). Plastic deformation of a metal surface in sliding contact with a hard wedge: its relation to friction and wear. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 394(1806). 161–181. 77 indexed citations

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Challen, John & P.L.B. Oxley. (1984). A slip line field analysis of the transition from local asperity contact to full contact in metallic sliding friction. Wear. 100(1-3). 171–193. 38 indexed citations

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Challen, John & P.L.B. Oxley. (1984). Slip-line fields for explaining the mechanics of polishing and related processes. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 26(6-8). 403–418. 42 indexed citations

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Challen, John, P.L.B. Oxley, & E.D. Doyle. (1983). The effect of strain hardening on the critical angle for abrasive (chip formation) wear. Wear. 88(1). 1–12. 34 indexed citations

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Challen, John & P.L.B. Oxley. (1979). An explanation of the different regimes of friction and wear using asperity deformation models. Wear. 53(2). 229–243. 394 indexed citations breakdown →

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