P. H. Francis

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 892 citations indexed

About

P. H. Francis is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, P. H. Francis has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 892 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in P. H. Francis's work include Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (3 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (3 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (3 papers). P. H. Francis is often cited by papers focused on Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (3 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (3 papers) and Fatigue and fracture mechanics (3 papers). P. H. Francis collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. P. H. Francis's co-authors include R. B. Hetnarski, A. L. Florence, Witold Nowacki, Leroy Gardner, Sheida Afshan, Nancy Baddoo, Finian McCann, Yidu Bu, Katherine A. Cashell and James M. Whitney and has published in prestigious journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Applied Mechanics and Journal of Sound and Vibration.

In The Last Decade

P. H. Francis

10 papers receiving 821 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.

Dynamic Problems of Thermoelasticity

1977 509 citations Witold Nowacki, P. H. Francis et al. Journal of Applied Mechanics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. H. Francis United States	6	570	345	235	122	101	12	892
H. F. Bueckner United States	9	1.1k 1.9×	345 1.0×	61 0.3×	162 1.3×	372 3.7×	15	1.2k
M.N. Pavlović United Kingdom	19	491 0.9×	1.1k 3.1×	433 1.8×	208 1.7×	207 2.0×	107	1.3k
Eduard‐Marius Craciun Romania	19	646 1.1×	179 0.5×	58 0.2×	244 2.0×	157 1.6×	65	839
A. F. Emery United States	16	550 1.0×	207 0.6×	26 0.1×	134 1.1×	306 3.0×	57	920
J. Jiroušek Switzerland	20	1.1k 2.0×	503 1.5×	47 0.2×	22 0.2×	115 1.1×	38	1.2k
J. A. Teixeira de Freitas Portugal	19	782 1.4×	410 1.2×	52 0.2×	52 0.4×	62 0.6×	65	916
Howard I. Epstein United States	12	188 0.3×	287 0.8×	63 0.3×	41 0.3×	95 0.9×	49	550
R. Wilson United Kingdom	11	404 0.7×	151 0.4×	49 0.2×	26 0.2×	88 0.9×	36	574
L.M.S.S. Castro Portugal	15	475 0.8×	364 1.1×	131 0.6×	56 0.5×	88 0.9×	43	657
H. C. Huang United Kingdom	8	525 0.9×	386 1.1×	37 0.2×	22 0.2×	98 1.0×	13	629

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of P. H. Francis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of P. H. Francis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of P. H. Francis based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with P. H. Francis. P. H. Francis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Gardner, Leroy, Yidu Bu, P. H. Francis, et al.. (2016). Elevated temperature material properties of stainless steel reinforcing bar. Construction and Building Materials. 114. 977–997. 95 indexed citations

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Afshan, Sheida, et al.. (2015). Reliability analysis of structural stainless steel design provisions. Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 114. 293–304. 183 indexed citations

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Baddoo, Nancy & P. H. Francis. (2014). Development of design rules in the AISC Design Guide for structural stainless steel. Thin-Walled Structures. 83. 200–208. 23 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H., T. S. Cook, & A. Nagy. (1978). FRACTURE BEHAVIOR CHARACTERIZATION OF SHIP STEELS AND WELDMENTS; FINAL REPORT ON PROJECT SR-1224 (FRACTURE CRITERIA).

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Nowacki, Witold, P. H. Francis, R. B. Hetnarski, & A. L. Florence. (1977). Dynamic Problems of Thermoelasticity. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 44(2). 366–366. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whitney, James M., et al.. (1973). Effect of end attachment on the strength of fiber-reinforced composite cylinders. Experimental Mechanics. 13(5). 185–192. 12 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H.. (1972). Thermo-mechanical effects in elastic wave propagation: A survey. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 21(2). 181–192. 60 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H. & D. L. Davidson. (1972). Experimental characterization of yield induced by surface flaws.. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H.. (1972). On the configuration of a propagating surface fatigue crack. Flow Turbulence and Combustion. 25(1). 26–34. 1 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H., et al.. (1971). EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF PLASTIC YIELDING AT THE TIP OF SURFACE FLAW CRACKS. 3 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H., et al.. (1968). On the Stresses Near an Oblique Elliptical Aperture in a Large Plate. Journal of Basic Engineering. 90(2). 295–296. 4 indexed citations

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Francis, P. H.. (1968). Parametric Excitation of a Non-Homogeneous Bernoulli-Euler Beam. Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. 10(3). 205–212. 1 indexed citations

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