John K. Tien

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

John K. Tien is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, John K. Tien has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 22 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in John K. Tien's work include High Temperature Alloys and Creep (27 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (9 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (9 papers). John K. Tien is often cited by papers focused on High Temperature Alloys and Creep (27 papers), High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (9 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (9 papers). John K. Tien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Russia. John K. Tien's co-authors include R. J. Richards, I. M. Bernstein, Anthony W. Thompson, Thomas R. Caulfield, Vincent C. Nardone, John Collier, J. C. Phillips, Sampath Purushothaman, O. Buck and Harris L. Marcus and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of the American Ceramic Society and Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.

In The Last Decade

John K. Tien

49 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hydrogen transport by dislocations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John K. Tien United States	19	1.2k	900	522	437	396	50	1.6k
Bruce L. Bramfitt United States	14	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.5×	241 0.5×	503 1.2×	551 1.4×	24	2.3k
T. Gladman United Kingdom	13	2.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	323 0.6×	746 1.7×	487 1.2×	28	2.3k
Yoritoshi Minamino Japan	21	2.3k 1.9×	1.7k 1.9×	409 0.8×	529 1.2×	386 1.0×	133	2.5k
H. W. Kerr Canada	29	2.0k 1.7×	961 1.1×	243 0.5×	349 0.8×	876 2.2×	77	2.3k
P. Rama Rao India	25	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	264 0.5×	835 1.9×	435 1.1×	124	2.2k
K. R. Kinsman United States	22	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	194 0.4×	327 0.7×	271 0.7×	48	1.6k
Taiji Nishizawa Japan	21	1.3k 1.1×	804 0.9×	172 0.3×	256 0.6×	223 0.6×	68	1.6k
Kojiro F. Kobayashi Japan	22	1.1k 0.9×	566 0.6×	166 0.3×	185 0.4×	253 0.6×	110	1.4k
H.‐J. Christ Germany	28	1.9k 1.6×	829 0.9×	443 0.8×	801 1.8×	843 2.1×	71	2.3k
R. A. Mulford United States	13	1.1k 0.9×	841 0.9×	389 0.7×	449 1.0×	259 0.7×	14	1.4k

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1992). Understanding the high-temperature deformation Behavior of an Ordered Ir3Zr Intermetallic Compound. Metallurgical Transactions A. 23(11). 3073–3076. 7 indexed citations

Wallace, John, et al.. (1991). Internal heat transfer in Czochralski grown silicon crystals. Journal of Applied Physics. 69(1). 550–552. 6 indexed citations

Tien, John K. & Thomas R. Caulfield. (1989). Superalloys, supercomposites and superceramics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 164 indexed citations

Tien, John K., et al.. (1987). On the preference for fine grain size for early primary creep resistance. Scripta Metallurgica. 21(11). 1553–1557. 4 indexed citations

Nardone, Vincent C., et al.. (1987). The effect of the lower stress level on the cyclic creep behavior of an ods superalloy. Metallurgical Transactions A. 18(6). 1029–1033. 5 indexed citations

Tien, John K., et al.. (1986). An Overview of the Temperature Dependence of the Strength of the Ni₃Al System. MRS Proceedings. 81.

Nardone, Vincent C., et al.. (1986). Cyclic creep and anelastic relaxation analysis of an ODS superalloy. Metallurgical Transactions A. 17(9). 1577–1583. 13 indexed citations

Collier, John, et al.. (1986). The effects of replacing the refractory elements W, Nb, and Ta with Mo in nickel-base superalloys on microstructural, microchemistry, and mechanical properties. Metallurgical Transactions A. 17(4). 651–661. 24 indexed citations

Tien, John K.. (1985). Growth Limitations of the Japanese Superalloys Industry. JOM. 37(9). 30–34. 1 indexed citations

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Tien, John K. & Vincent C. Nardone. (1984). The U.S. Superalloys Industry — Status and Outlook. JOM. 36(9). 52–57. 7 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1982). Effects of Cobalt on Structure, Microchemistry and Properties of a Wrought Nickel-Base Superalloy. Metallurgical Transactions A. 13(6). 1021–1032. 55 indexed citations

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Tien, John K. & John F. Elliott. (1981). Metallurgical treatises : presentations at the USA-China Bilateral Conference, sponsored by the Metallurgical Society of AIME, American Society for Metals, and the Chinese Society of Metals, to be held in Beijing, November 13-22, 1981 will be in part based on the treatises in this volume. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., Sampath Purushothaman, Murray W. Mahoney, & N. E. Paton. (1980). A back-stress-based rationale for creep behavior during dynamic aging. Materials Science and Engineering. 45(1). 43–48. 2 indexed citations

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Purushothaman, Sampath & John K. Tien. (1978). Slow crystallographic fatigue crack growth in a nickel-base alloy. Metallurgical Transactions A. 9(3). 351–355. 18 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1978). Generalized theory of fatigue crack propagation: Part II — Derivation of threshold and Paris regime crack growth rates. Materials Science and Engineering. 34(3). 247–262. 12 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1978). Role of back stress in the creep behavior of particle strengthened alloys. Acta Metallurgica. 26(4). 519–528. 82 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1976). Damage of a candidate CTR material in a high energy fluence deuterium plasma. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 63. 137–150. 9 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1975). A fatigue crack growth mechanism for ductile materials. Scripta Metallurgica. 9(9). 923–926. 14 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., R. J. Richards, O. Buck, & Harris L. Marcus. (1975). Model of dislocation sweep-in of hydrogen during fatigue crack growth. Scripta Metallurgica. 9(10). 1097–1101. 54 indexed citations

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Tien, John K., et al.. (1974). A theory for steady state creep based on the motion of interstitial type jogs. Acta Metallurgica. 22(2). 145–151. 20 indexed citations

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