Kim Branner

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

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Kim Branner is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kim Branner has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 55 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kim Branner's work include Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (38 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (18 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (16 papers). Kim Branner is often cited by papers focused on Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (38 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (18 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (16 papers). Kim Branner collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Kim Branner's co-authors include Malcolm McGugan, Bent F. Sørensen, Leon Mishnaevsky, Helga Nørgaard Petersen, Justine Beauson, Peter Berring, Philipp Ulrich Haselbach, Xiao Chen, Taeseong Kim and Anders Melchior Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable Energy and Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing.

In The Last Decade

Kim Branner

88 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Materials for Wind Turbine Blades: An Overview

2017 522 citations Leon Mishnaevsky, Kim Branner et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kim Branner Denmark	20	779	699	574	460	228	93	1.8k
Qingguo Fei China	22	624 0.8×	889 1.3×	867 1.5×	109 0.2×	259 1.1×	149	1.8k
Malcolm McGugan Denmark	14	431 0.6×	401 0.6×	439 0.8×	217 0.5×	141 0.6×	37	1.1k
D. Todd Griffith United States	20	249 0.3×	471 0.7×	308 0.5×	896 1.9×	337 1.5×	131	1.8k
John B. Kosmatka United States	23	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	350 0.6×	241 0.5×	391 1.7×	119	1.7k
Hermes Carvalho Brazil	23	324 0.4×	771 1.1×	600 1.0×	289 0.6×	88 0.4×	93	1.4k
De Xie China	26	1.8k 2.3×	647 0.9×	1.0k 1.8×	98 0.2×	337 1.5×	89	2.6k
Farhan Gandhi United States	26	465 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	729 1.3×	1.1k 2.4×	430 1.9×	203	2.5k
Li Chen China	34	652 0.8×	3.0k 4.3×	376 0.7×	772 1.7×	83 0.4×	226	4.1k
Dipak Kumar Maiti India	25	1.5k 1.9×	1.5k 2.1×	403 0.7×	360 0.8×	342 1.5×	119	2.1k

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Семенов, С. Г., et al.. (2025). Enhanced approach to match damage-equivalent loads in rotor blade fatigue testing.

McGugan, Malcolm, et al.. (2024). Artificial intelligence-based blade identification in operational wind turbines through similarity analysis aided drone inspection. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 137. 109234–109234. 4 indexed citations

Benzon, Hans‐Henrik von, et al.. (2024). Acoustic emission data analytics on delamination growth in a wind turbine blade under full-scale cyclic testing. Measurement. 242. 115822–115822. 7 indexed citations

Benzon, Hans‐Henrik von, Malcolm McGugan, Xiao Chen, et al.. (2024). Analysis of damage localization based on acoustic emission data from test of wind turbine blades. Measurement. 231. 114661–114661. 17 indexed citations

Branner, Kim, et al.. (2023). How to design and execute multiaxial fatigue tests for wind turbine blades without sensitive design data?. Engineering Structures. 301. 117297–117297. 2 indexed citations

Ladpli, Purim, et al.. (2023). Feasibility study on a full‐scale wind turbine blade monitoring campaign: Comparing performance and robustness of features extracted from medium‐frequency active vibrations. Wind Energy. 26(10). 1027–1048. 2 indexed citations

Mikkelsen, Lars Pilgaard, Xiao Chen, Johannes G. Bode, et al.. (2022). Methodology to predict stiffness knock-down in laminates for wind turbine blades with artificial wrinkles. Wind energy science. 7(6). 2513–2525. 6 indexed citations

Ehlers, Sören, Nagi Abdussamie, Kim Branner, et al.. (2022). Committee V.2: Experimental Methods. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 1 indexed citations

Berring, Peter, et al.. (2022). Experimental demonstration of strain-based damage method for optimized fatigue testing of wind turbine blades. Composite Structures. 293. 115683–115683. 8 indexed citations

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Branner, Kim, M. Eder, Hilmar Kjartansson Danielsen, Xiao Chen, & Malcolm McGugan. (2021). Towards more smart, efficient and reliable wind-turbine structures. DTU Data. 115–124. 3 indexed citations

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Branner, Kim, et al.. (2019). EFFECT OF MATRIX CRACKS ON THE STIFFNESS DEGRADATION OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE BEAMS. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Oleksiy S., Sergey Pivnenko, Olav Breinbjerg, et al.. (2015). DTU-ESA millimeter-wave VAlidation STandard antenna (mm-VAST) - detailed design. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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Haselbach, Philipp Ulrich & Kim Branner. (2015). EFFECT OF TRAILING EDGE DAMAGE ON FULL-SCALE WIND TURBINE BLADE FAILURE. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 8 indexed citations

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Rizzo, Cesare Mario, et al.. (2013). An high order Mixed Interpolation Tensorial Components (MITC) shell element approach for modeling the buckling behavior of delaminated composites. Composite Structures. 108. 657–666. 14 indexed citations

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Toft, Henrik Stensgaard, Kim Branner, Leon Mishnaevsky, & John Dalsgaard Sørensen. (2012). Uncertainty modelling and code calibration for composite materials. Journal of Composite Materials. 47(14). 1729–1747. 26 indexed citations

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Hattel, Jesper Henri, et al.. (2011). A 1D COUPLED CURING AND VISCO-MECHANICAL VOID GROWTH MODEL OF THICK THERMOSETTING COMPOSITE LAMINATES. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 2 indexed citations

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Branner, Kim, et al.. (2011). COMPARISON OF TWO FINITE ELEMENT METHODS WITH EXPERIMENTS OF DELAMINATED COMPOSITE PANELS. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations

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Dimitrov, Nikolay, et al.. (2009). INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR DUE TO BEND-TWIST COUPLINGS IN WIND TURBINE BLADES. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 6 indexed citations

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Berring, Peter, et al.. (2007). TORSIONAL PERFORMANCE OF WIND TURBINE BLADES � PART I: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 11 indexed citations

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Berring, Peter, et al.. (2007). Torsional performance of wind turbine blades - Part 1: Experimental investigation. 1118–1119. 20 indexed citations

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