Krister Svanberg

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Krister Svanberg is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Krister Svanberg has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 13 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Krister Svanberg's work include Topology Optimization in Engineering (19 papers), Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (12 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (7 papers). Krister Svanberg is often cited by papers focused on Topology Optimization in Engineering (19 papers), Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (12 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (7 papers). Krister Svanberg collaborates with scholars based in Sweden. Krister Svanberg's co-authors include Mathias Stolpe and Anders Eriksson and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.

In The Last Decade

Krister Svanberg

20 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The method of moving asymptotes—a new method for structural optimization

1987 4.1k citations Krister Svanberg International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering profile →
A Class of Globally Convergent Optimization Methods Based on Conservative Convex Separable Approximations

2002 997 citations Krister Svanberg profile →
An alternative interpolation scheme for minimum compliance topology optimization

2001 687 citations Mathias Stolpe, Krister Svanberg Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Krister Svanberg Sweden	15	5.4k	3.5k	2.4k	608	547	22	6.5k
G. I. N. Rozvany Australia	38	7.1k 1.3×	4.4k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	608 1.0×	536 1.0×	178	7.7k
Daniel A. Tortorelli United States	43	4.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	853 1.6×	157	6.7k
James K. Guest United States	36	4.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	958 1.6×	447 0.8×	112	5.6k
Boyan S. Lazarov Denmark	33	6.4k 1.2×	3.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	1.2k 2.0×	692 1.3×	69	7.8k
Kazuhiro Izui Japan	32	2.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	611 1.0×	473 0.9×	234	4.1k
Kurt Maute United States	50	6.0k 1.1×	3.5k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	1.6k 2.6×	1.6k 2.9×	169	9.4k
Zafer Gürdal United States	41	4.8k 0.9×	5.0k 1.4×	961 0.4×	1.7k 2.7×	821 1.5×	177	7.5k
François Jouve France	19	3.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	274 0.5×	872 1.6×	41	4.3k
Mingdong Zhou China	24	3.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	444 0.7×	327 0.6×	63	4.0k
Ramana V. Grandhi United States	42	3.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 2.6×	673 1.2×	283	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Krister Svanberg

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (2013). Density filters for topology optimization based on the Pythagorean means. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 48(5). 859–875. 74 indexed citations

Eriksson, Anders & Krister Svanberg. (2011). Optimization in simulations of human movement planning. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 87(12). 1127–1147. 2 indexed citations

Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (2008). On the validity of using small positive lower bounds on design variables in discrete topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 37(4). 325–334. 5 indexed citations

Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (2007). Sequential integer programming methods for stress constrained topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 34(4). 277–299. 89 indexed citations

Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (2006). Topology optimization by a neighbourhood search method based on efficient sensitivity calculations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 67(12). 1670–1699. 29 indexed citations

Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (2005). A hierarchical neighbourhood search method for topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 29(5). 325–340. 28 indexed citations

Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2004). A stress-constrained truss-topology and material-selection problem that can be solved by linear programming. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 27(1-2). 126–129. 17 indexed citations

Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2003). Modelling topology optimization problems as linear mixed 0–1 programs. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 57(5). 723–739. 76 indexed citations

Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2003). A note on stress-constrained truss topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 25(1). 62–64. 35 indexed citations

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Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2001). An alternative interpolation scheme for minimum compliance topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 22(2). 116–124. 687 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2001). On the trajectories of the epsilon-relaxation approach for stress-constrained truss topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 21(2). 140–151. 69 indexed citations

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Stolpe, Mathias & Krister Svanberg. (2001). On the trajectories of penalization methods for topology optimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 21(2). 128–139. 109 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister. (1994). On the convexity and concavity of compliances. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 7(1-2). 42–46. 23 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister. (1994). Global convergence of the stress ratio method for truss sizing. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 8(1). 60–68. 6 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister. (1992). A new approximation of the constraints in truss sizing problems: An explicit second order approximation which is exact for statically determinate truss structures. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 4(3-4). 165–171.

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Svanberg, Krister. (1990). Optimal truss sizing based on explicit Taylor series expansions. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 2(3). 153–162. 8 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (1982). BEAM MODELS AS TOOLS FOR LIGHT WEIGHT DESIGN OF CAR BODIES USING FINITE ELEMENT METHODS. 2 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister. (1981). Optimization of geometry in truss design. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 28(1). 63–80. 30 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister. (1981). On Local and Global Minima in Structural Optimization. 26 indexed citations

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Svanberg, Krister, et al.. (1981). Weight Optimization of Membrane Structures. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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