Kay Wille

5.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
70 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Kay Wille is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kay Wille has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 32 papers in Building and Construction and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kay Wille's work include Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (44 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (30 papers) and Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (28 papers). Kay Wille is often cited by papers focused on Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (44 papers), Concrete and Cement Materials Research (30 papers) and Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (28 papers). Kay Wille collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Kay Wille's co-authors include Antoine E. Naaman, Sherif El‐Tawil, Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos, Rui Zhong, Man Xu, Dong Joo Kim, Arash E. Zaghi, Sukhoon Pyo, Kenneth J. Loh and Nguyen Viet Tue and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Cement and Concrete Research and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kay Wille

68 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Properties of strain hardening ultra high performance fib... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2014 2011 2010 2011 200 400 600
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. Properties of strain hardening ultra high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHP-FRC) under direct tensile loading
    2014 690 citations Kay Wille, Sherif El‐Tawil et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →
  2. Ultra-High Performance Concrete with Compressive Strength Exceeding 150 MPa (22 ksi): A Simpler Way
    2011 470 citations Kay Wille, Antoine E. Naaman et al. profile →
  3. Strain-hardening UHP-FRC with low fiber contents
    2010 412 citations Kay Wille, Antoine E. Naaman et al. profile →
  4. Ultra-high performance concrete and fiber reinforced concrete: achieving strength and ductility without heat curing
    2011 330 citations Kay Wille, Antoine E. Naaman 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
Kay Wille United States 32 4.4k 2.8k 578 413 368 70 4.8k
Zemei Wu China 38 8.0k 1.8× 3.9k 1.4× 1.2k 2.1× 211 0.5× 778 2.1× 57 8.4k
Bo-Tao Huang China 41 4.1k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 486 0.8× 135 0.3× 247 0.7× 87 4.5k
Erhan Güneyisi Türkiye 48 6.5k 1.5× 4.2k 1.5× 868 1.5× 262 0.6× 107 0.3× 93 6.8k
Mehmet Gesoğlu Türkiye 45 6.2k 1.4× 4.0k 1.4× 831 1.4× 257 0.6× 102 0.3× 79 6.5k
Sérgio Cavalaro Spain 37 3.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.6× 402 0.7× 202 0.5× 100 0.3× 116 3.3k
Jin‐Keun Kim South Korea 40 4.9k 1.1× 2.5k 0.9× 438 0.8× 138 0.3× 221 0.6× 100 5.4k
Vute Sirivivatnanon Australia 23 3.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 1.3k 2.3× 252 0.6× 132 0.4× 71 4.2k
Ditao Niu China 44 5.0k 1.1× 2.2k 0.8× 1.0k 1.8× 277 0.7× 66 0.2× 234 5.4k
Shamsad Ahmad Saudi Arabia 33 3.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 2.2× 163 0.4× 105 0.3× 147 4.2k
Ran Huang Taiwan 30 2.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 714 1.2× 227 0.5× 87 0.2× 85 3.1k

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All Works

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Chrysochoou, Maria, et al.. (2025). Development of a risk assessment framework for pyrrhotite induced deterioration of concrete foundations in CT and MA. Cement and Concrete Research. 197. 107951–107951.
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Kim, Dong‐Hyun, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical investigation of accelerated deterioration of concrete with iron-sulfide containing aggregates. Cement and Concrete Research. 182. 107570–107570. 6 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, et al.. (2024). Slip hardening behavior of bundled steel fibers in ultra-high performance concrete. Cement and Concrete Composites. 155. 105844–105844. 1 indexed citations
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Tao, Zhenyu, Minghong Qiu, Kay Wille, et al.. (2024). Effects of specimen thickness and fiber length on tensile and cracking behavior of UHPFRC: Uniaxial tensile test and micromechanical modeling. Cement and Concrete Composites. 155. 105828–105828. 7 indexed citations
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Qiu, Minghong, Xudong Shao, Kay Wille, et al.. (2024). Effect of rebar ratio, rebar diameter, cover thickness, and fiber shape on flexural and cracking behavior of rebar-reinforced UHPC beams. Engineering Structures. 321. 119008–119008. 8 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, et al.. (2023). Stabilizing dispersed colloidal nanosilica exposed to an ultra-high performance concrete environment. Construction and Building Materials. 409. 133975–133975. 5 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, et al.. (2019). The Effects of Resonant Acoustic Mixing on the Microstructure of UHPC. 1 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, et al.. (2017). Finite Element Analysis and Experimental Comparison for Repair of Corrosion Damaged Steel Girder Ends Using Ultra-High Performance Concrete Encasement. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations
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Zhong, Rui, et al.. (2017). Material efficiency in the design of UHPC paste from a life cycle point of view. Construction and Building Materials. 160. 505–513. 61 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, et al.. (2017). Influence of volume fraction and orientation of fibers on the pullout behavior of reinforcement bar embedded in ultra high performance concrete. Construction and Building Materials. 146. 582–593. 66 indexed citations
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Xu, Man & Kay Wille. (2014). Calibration of K&C Concrete Model for UHPC in LS-DYNA. Advanced materials research. 1081. 254–259. 30 indexed citations
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Pyo, Sukhoon, Kay Wille, Sherif El‐Tawil, & Antoine E. Naaman. (2014). Strain rate dependent properties of ultra high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHP-FRC) under tension. Cement and Concrete Composites. 56. 15–24. 197 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, Antoine E. Naaman, & Sherif El‐Tawil. (2011). Optimizing Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. ACI Concrete International. 33(9). 35–41. 63 indexed citations
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Tue, Nguyen Viet, et al.. (2007). Ein optoanalytisches Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Faserverteilung und -orientierung in stahlfaserverstaerktem UHFB / An Optoanalytic Method for the Determination of the Distribution and Orientation of Fibres in Steel Fibre Reinforced UHPC. Beton- und Stahlbetonbau. 102(10). 1 indexed citations
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Tue, Nguyen Viet, et al.. (2007). Ein optoanalytisches Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Faserverteilung und ‐orientierung in stahlfaserverstärktem UHFB. Beton- und Stahlbetonbau. 102(10). 674–680. 20 indexed citations
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Wille, Kay, Frank Dehn, & Nguyen Viet Tue. (2005). Bruchmechanische Kenngroessen hochfester Leichtbetone / Fracture mechanics of different lightweight concretes (LWC). Bauingenieur. 80(6). 1 indexed citations

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