Karel Lesage

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Karel Lesage is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Civil and Structural Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karel Lesage has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Building and Construction, 47 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karel Lesage's work include Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (49 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (36 papers) and Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics (14 papers). Karel Lesage is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (49 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (36 papers) and Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics (14 papers). Karel Lesage collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, China and Türkiye. Karel Lesage's co-authors include Geert De Schutter, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, Guillaume Habert, Venkatesh Naidu Nerella, Isolda Agustí-Juan, Viktor Mechtcherine, Serdar Aydın, Xiaodi Dai, Khadija El Cheikh and Kim Van Tittelboom and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and Cement and Concrete Research.

In The Last Decade

Karel Lesage

64 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vision of 3D printing with concrete — Technical, economic and environmental potentials

2018 743 citations Geert De Schutter, Karel Lesage et al. Cement and Concrete Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karel Lesage Belgium	25	1.9k	1.7k	834	429	243	65	2.5k
Scott Z. Jones United States	16	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	283 0.7×	205 0.8×	30	2.3k
Dengwu Jiao China	22	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	300 0.4×	305 0.7×	130 0.5×	70	2.0k
Mingxu Chen China	23	1.0k 0.5×	920 0.5×	548 0.7×	366 0.9×	235 1.0×	58	1.6k
Shoude Wang China	23	995 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	341 0.4×	511 1.2×	208 0.9×	115	2.0k
Wu-Jian Long China	31	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	268 0.3×	864 2.0×	312 1.3×	133	2.9k
Coralie Brumaud Switzerland	14	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	299 0.4×	247 0.6×	111 0.5×	32	1.7k
Ravi Ranade United States	25	2.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.7×	392 0.5×	288 0.7×	100 0.4×	46	3.3k
Laibo Li China	20	850 0.4×	807 0.5×	483 0.6×	278 0.6×	225 0.9×	44	1.3k
Kequan Yu China	42	4.4k 2.3×	5.4k 3.2×	663 0.8×	569 1.3×	236 1.0×	136	6.2k
Wenqiang Zuo China	23	752 0.4×	937 0.6×	362 0.4×	222 0.5×	138 0.6×	56	1.4k

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Zhang, Yiyuan, Yi Zhang, Yaxin Tao, et al.. (2025). Active rheology control of cementitious materials containing hard magnetic particles: Sustained response after magnetic intervention. Cement and Concrete Composites. 160. 106024–106024. 1 indexed citations

Lesage, Karel, et al.. (2025). Concrete printing through lace pressing: Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Cement and Concrete Research. 197. 107968–107968. 1 indexed citations

Jiao, Dengwu, et al.. (2024). A conceptual model for numerical simulation of Active Rheology Control validated for cementitious pumping. Cement and Concrete Research. 179. 107471–107471. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Yiyuan, Yaxin Tao, Yi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Active rheology control of responsive mortar with low slump value: Effect of magnetic field properties. Construction and Building Materials. 458. 139450–139450. 1 indexed citations

Lesage, Karel, et al.. (2023). Smart superplasticizers based on redox-responsive polymers for rheology control of cementitious materials. Cement and Concrete Research. 173. 107291–107291. 5 indexed citations

Lesage, Karel, et al.. (2023). Towards a multiscale rheological model of fresh cement paste: A population balance approach. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 192. 55–68. 3 indexed citations

Lesage, Karel, et al.. (2023). Geometric Conformability of 3D Concrete Printing Mixtures from a Rheological Perspective. Materials. 16(21). 6864–6864. 5 indexed citations

Tao, Yaxin, Qiang Ren, Gieljan Vantyghem, et al.. (2023). Extending 3D concrete printing to hard rock tunnel linings: Adhesion of fresh cementitious materials for different surface inclinations. Automation in Construction. 149. 104787–104787. 16 indexed citations

Jiao, Dengwu, et al.. (2022). Effect of Solid Volume Fraction on the Magnetorheological Response of Nano-Fe3O4 Incorporated Cementitious Paste. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 34(11). 6 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Karel Lesage, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, et al.. (2021). Rheological behavior of cement paste with nano-Fe3O4 under magnetic field: Magneto-rheological responses and conceptual calculations. Cement and Concrete Composites. 120. 104035–104035. 55 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Karel Lesage, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, Caijun Shi, & Geert De Schutter. (2021). Possibilities of fly ash as responsive additive in magneto-rheology control of cementitious materials. Construction and Building Materials. 296. 123656–123656. 25 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Karel Lesage, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, Caijun Shi, & Geert De Schutter. (2021). Flow behavior of cementitious-like suspension with nano-Fe3O4 particles under external magnetic field. Materials and Structures. 54(6). 13 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Karel Lesage, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, et al.. (2021). Structural evolution of cement paste with nano-Fe3O4 under magnetic field - Effect of concentration and particle size of nano-Fe3O4. Cement and Concrete Composites. 120. 104036–104036. 44 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Karel Lesage, Mert Yücel Yardımcı, et al.. (2020). Rheological Properties of Cement Paste with Nano-Fe3O4 under Magnetic Field: Flow Curve and Nanoparticle Agglomeration. Materials. 13(22). 5164–5164. 17 indexed citations

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Schutter, Geert De, et al.. (2019). Introduction to the concept of active rheology control in case of pumping of cementitious materials. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 9 indexed citations

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Jiao, Dengwu, Khadija El Cheikh, Caijun Shi, Karel Lesage, & Geert De Schutter. (2019). Structural build-up of cementitious paste with nano-Fe3O4 under time-varying magnetic fields. Cement and Concrete Research. 124. 105857–105857. 68 indexed citations

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Cheikh, Khadija El, et al.. (2018). CFD implementation of time-dependent behaviour : application for concrete pumping. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Schutter, Geert De, et al.. (2017). Casting concrete structures in a smarter way. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4 indexed citations

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Grünewald, Steffen, et al.. (2017). Effect of the mix design on the robustness of fresh self-compacting concrete. Cement and Concrete Composites. 82. 190–201. 38 indexed citations

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Desmet, Bram, J. Vantomme, Geert De Schutter, Karel Lesage, & Lucie Vandewalle. (2010). Parametric Study of the Effects of the Composition on the Setting of Self-Compacting Mortar, using Continuous Ultrasonic Monitoring. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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