Kamran Afaq

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 920 citations indexed

About

Kamran Afaq is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kamran Afaq has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 920 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 6 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kamran Afaq's work include Structural Analysis and Optimization (5 papers), Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (5 papers) and Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (2 papers). Kamran Afaq is often cited by papers focused on Structural Analysis and Optimization (5 papers), Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (5 papers) and Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (2 papers). Kamran Afaq collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, France and Saudi Arabia. Kamran Afaq's co-authors include Sébastien Mistou, Moussa Karama, Muhammad Attique Khan, Sumair Aziz, Sahar Ahmed Idris, Samih M. Mostafa, Muhammad Awais, Hammam Alshazly, Muhammad Hamid and Wei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, International Journal of Solids and Structures and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Kamran Afaq

12 papers receiving 866 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.

Mechanical behaviour of laminated composite beam by the new multi-layered laminated composite structures model with transverse shear stress continuity

2003 609 citations Moussa Karama, Kamran Afaq et al. International Journal of Solids and Structures profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kamran Afaq Pakistan	8	766	557	182	175	166	12	920
Ramazan‐Ali Jafari‐Talookolaei Iran	19	624 0.8×	493 0.9×	184 1.0×	317 1.8×	86 0.5×	74	842
Jae-Hoon Kang South Korea	16	801 1.0×	660 1.2×	242 1.3×	332 1.9×	108 0.7×	88	1.1k
H.N.R. Wagner Germany	18	764 1.0×	694 1.2×	343 1.9×	235 1.3×	76 0.5×	27	1.0k
Marcelo T. Piován Argentina	14	615 0.8×	549 1.0×	142 0.8×	315 1.8×	103 0.6×	54	820
S. W. Yang China	18	669 0.9×	509 0.9×	180 1.0×	359 2.1×	128 0.8×	45	856
Ahmed Frikha Tunisia	17	1.0k 1.3×	604 1.1×	172 0.9×	231 1.3×	420 2.5×	29	1.1k
Riccardo Vescovini Italy	21	950 1.2×	720 1.3×	233 1.3×	186 1.1×	95 0.6×	57	1.1k
L. S. Ramachandra India	20	841 1.1×	813 1.5×	174 1.0×	234 1.3×	167 1.0×	69	1.1k
Regina Khakimova Germany	14	732 1.0×	678 1.2×	255 1.4×	215 1.2×	54 0.3×	23	937
Joaquim Infante Barbosa Portugal	16	523 0.7×	356 0.6×	122 0.7×	123 0.7×	78 0.5×	36	625

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Aziz, Sumair, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Attique Khan, et al.. (2021). An Expert System for Rotating Machine Fault Detection Using Vibration Signal Analysis. Sensors. 21(22). 7587–7587. 56 indexed citations

Riaz, M., Asif Hanif, Muhammad Attique Khan, et al.. (2021). An Optimal Power Flow Solution of a System Integrated with Renewable Sources Using a Hybrid Optimizer. Sustainability. 13(23). 13382–13382. 14 indexed citations

Tariq, Rasikh, Yasir Hussain, Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh, Kamran Afaq, & Hafız Muhammad Ali. (2020). Regression-Based Empirical Modeling of Thermal Conductivity of CuO-Water Nanofluid using Data-Driven Techniques. International Journal of Thermophysics. 41(4). 27 indexed citations

Afaq, Kamran, et al.. (2020). Stress Analysis of Composite Leaf Spring – Comparative Approach. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 899(1). 12013–12013. 2 indexed citations

Khan, Mushtaq, et al.. (2020). Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of process parameters on sheet deformation during the electromagnetic forming of AA6061-T6 alloy. Mechanical sciences. 11(2). 329–347. 10 indexed citations

Mohyud‐Din, Syed Tauseef, Muhammad Usman, Kamran Afaq, Muhammad Hamid, & Wei Wang. (2017). Examination of carbon-water nanofluid flow with thermal radiation under the effect of Marangoni convection. Engineering Computations. 34(7). 2330–2343. 32 indexed citations

Khan, Rafiullah, et al.. (2016). AGE EFFECT ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HIP JOINT BONE: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION. 1 indexed citations

Karama, Moussa, Kamran Afaq, & Sébastien Mistou. (2009). A new theory for laminated composite plates. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part L Journal of Materials Design and Applications. 223(2). 53–62. 154 indexed citations

Karama, Moussa, Kamran Afaq, & Sébastien Mistou. (2007). Mechanical Behaviour of Laminated Composite Beam at the Interfaces of Layers by a New Exponential Model.. Science and Engineering of Composite Materials. 14(2). 149–168. 1 indexed citations

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Karama, Moussa, Kamran Afaq, & Sébastien Mistou. (2007). A refinement of Ambartsumian multi-layer beam theory. Computers & Structures. 86(9). 839–849. 13 indexed citations

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Karama, Moussa, Kamran Afaq, & Sébastien Mistou. (2006). A new model to predict the behavior at the interfaces of multilayer structures. Journal of mechanics of materials and structures. 1(6). 957–977. 1 indexed citations

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Karama, Moussa, Kamran Afaq, & Sébastien Mistou. (2003). Mechanical behaviour of laminated composite beam by the new multi-layered laminated composite structures model with transverse shear stress continuity. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 40(6). 1525–1546. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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