Nikhilesh Chawla

15.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
344 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

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Nikhilesh Chawla is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhilesh Chawla has authored 344 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 108 papers in Materials Chemistry and 94 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Nikhilesh Chawla's work include Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (94 papers), Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies (80 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (78 papers). Nikhilesh Chawla is often cited by papers focused on Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (94 papers), Electronic Packaging and Soldering Technologies (80 papers) and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (78 papers). Nikhilesh Chawla collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Nikhilesh Chawla's co-authors include Jason Williams, Xin Deng, Yu‐Lin Shen, K. K. Chawla, R. Sidhu, V.V. Ganesh, Krishan K. Chawla, Y.-L. Shen, Sudhanshu S. Singh and M. Koopman and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nikhilesh Chawla

336 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

Mechanical Behavior of Particle Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikhilesh Chawla United States	59	8.2k	4.2k	3.4k	3.2k	2.1k	344	12.6k
Gang Liu China	62	9.7k 1.2×	8.0k 1.9×	2.6k 0.8×	812 0.3×	3.9k 1.8×	411	13.9k
H.N.G. Wadley United States	62	10.0k 1.2×	5.8k 1.4×	4.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	305	16.3k
Upadrasta Ramamurty India	68	16.5k 2.0×	8.7k 2.1×	2.9k 0.9×	953 0.3×	2.2k 1.0×	368	20.3k
Andreas Mortensen Switzerland	51	7.2k 0.9×	3.8k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	500 0.2×	1.6k 0.8×	261	10.3k
T.W. Clyne United Kingdom	63	9.0k 1.1×	7.8k 1.9×	5.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.4×	5.0k 2.3×	292	16.6k
Christian Coddet France	63	8.0k 1.0×	4.1k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	956 0.3×	4.9k 2.3×	348	12.4k
Ian M. Hutchings United Kingdom	52	4.7k 0.6×	3.2k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	188	10.3k
Jun Sun China	63	11.3k 1.4×	11.5k 2.7×	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	4.1k 1.9×	574	17.7k
Robert M. McMeeking United States	70	7.8k 0.9×	5.0k 1.2×	9.0k 2.7×	1.8k 0.6×	701 0.3×	296	18.3k
Alexander M. Korsunsky United Kingdom	54	6.0k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	4.8k 1.4×	1.7k 0.5×	693 0.3×	533	12.0k

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Kumar, Ankit, et al.. (2025). Investigation of mechanical properties of corrosion products in AA7075-T651 using in situ nanoindentation. Corrosion Science. 255. 113128–113128.

Ganju, Eshan, et al.. (2025). The tymbal of a cicada: nature’s sound-generating metastructure. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10270–10270. 1 indexed citations

Öztürk, Cahit, et al.. (2025). Beyond the Hexagon: Meso-structures in the Bee’s Honeycomb for Bio-Inspired Design. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 65(6). 1678–1698.

Curtzwiler, Greg W., et al.. (2024). Structural features of biobased composite foams revealed by X-ray tomography. RSC Advances. 14(27). 19528–19538. 1 indexed citations

Kastengren, Alan, et al.. (2024). Bismuth pyramid formation during solidification of eutectic tin-bismuth alloy using 4D X-ray microtomography. Communications Materials. 5(1). 3 indexed citations

Ganju, Eshan, et al.. (2024). Influence of contouring on the microstructure and micromechanical properties of Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) processed Al6061 enhanced with reactive particles. Materials Characterization. 215. 114206–114206. 1 indexed citations

Niverty, Sridhar, et al.. (2023). Microstructural characterization and mechanical behavior of Aba Panu meteorite by correlative microscopy and nanoindentation. Materials Characterization. 205. 113331–113331. 4 indexed citations

Mannodi‐Kanakkithodi, Arun, et al.. (2023). Influence of Indium addition on microstructural and mechanical behavior of Sn solder alloys: Experiments and first principles calculations. Acta Materialia. 249. 118853–118853. 42 indexed citations

Bhate, Dhruv, et al.. (2023). In situ investigations of failure mechanisms of silica fibers from the venus flower basket (Euplectella Aspergillum). Acta Biomaterialia. 162. 304–311. 8 indexed citations

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Bhate, Dhruv, et al.. (2023). Cholla cactus wood (Cylindropuntia imbricata): Hierarchical structure and micromechanical properties. Acta Biomaterialia. 174. 269–280. 2 indexed citations

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Ganju, Eshan, et al.. (2023). Assessment of slip transfer criteria for prismatic-to-prismatic slip in pure Ti from 3D grain boundary data. Acta Materialia. 262. 119424–119424. 19 indexed citations

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Xu, Weiheng, Dharneedar Ravichandran, Sayli Jambhulkar, et al.. (2022). Continuous Nanoparticle Patterning Strategy in Layer‐Structured Nanocomposite Fibers. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(35). 12 indexed citations

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Niverty, Sridhar, Cahit Öztürk, Clint A. Penick, et al.. (2020). Bioinspired Honeycomb Core Design: An Experimental Study of the Role of Corner Radius, Coping and Interface. Biomimetics. 5(4). 59–59. 13 indexed citations

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Torbati-Sarraf, Hamidreza, Seyed Alireza Torbati-Sarraf, Nikhilesh Chawla, & Amir Poursaee. (2020). A comparative study of corrosion behavior of an additively manufactured Al-6061 RAM2 with extruded Al-6061 T6. Corrosion Science. 174. 108838–108838. 59 indexed citations

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Chawla, Nikhilesh, et al.. (2009). Three-dimensional characterization ahd modeling of porosity in PM steels. 45(2). 19–27. 21 indexed citations

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Chawla, Nikhilesh & K. K. Chawla. (2007). MICROSTRUCTURE-BASED FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF PARTICLE REINFORCED METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Chawla, Nikhilesh. (2006). Metal matrix composites : in automotive applications. AM&P Technical Articles. 164(7). 29–31. 9 indexed citations

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Piotrowski, George, et al.. (2005). Fatigue-crack growth of Fe.0.85Mo-2Ni.0.6C steels with a heterogeneous microstructure. 41(1). 31–41. 7 indexed citations

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Chawla, Nikhilesh, et al.. (2001). Fatigue behavior of binder-treated P/M steels. 37(3). 49–57. 25 indexed citations

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Chawla, Nikhilesh, Christine M. Andres, J. Wayne Jones, & John E. Allison. (1999). THE EFFECT OF REINFORCEMENT VOLUME FRACTION AND PARTICLE SIZE ON THE FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF AN ALUMINUM ALLOY/SIC COMPOSITE. 66(2). 61–66. 7 indexed citations

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