Punit Kumar

3.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
55 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Punit Kumar is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Punit Kumar has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 14 papers in Automotive Engineering and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Punit Kumar's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (32 papers), High Entropy Alloys Studies (21 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (15 papers). Punit Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (32 papers), High Entropy Alloys Studies (21 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (15 papers). Punit Kumar collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and China. Punit Kumar's co-authors include Upadrasta Ramamurty, Om Prakash, Thorsten Hermann Becker, Robert O. Ritchie, Subra Suresh, Ming Dao, George Em Karniadakis, Lu Lu, J.C. McKinnell and Shi‐Hao Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Punit Kumar

50 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured metals

2021 275 citations Punit Kumar, Upadrasta Ramamurty et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Microstructural optimization through heat treatment for enhancing the fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth resistance of selective laser melted Ti 6Al 4V alloy

2019 269 citations Punit Kumar, Upadrasta Ramamurty Acta Materialia profile →
Extraction of mechanical properties of materials through deep learning from instrumented indentation

2020 242 citations Lu Lu, Ming Dao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Kink bands promote exceptional fracture resistance in a NbTaTiHf refractory medium-entropy alloy

2024 103 citations David H. Cook, Punit Kumar et al. Science profile →
A strong fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy with nano-bridged honeycomb microstructure intrinsically toughened by 3D-printing

2024 53 citations Punit Kumar, Sheng Huang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Punit Kumar Singapore	26	2.3k	810	783	329	295	55	2.6k
Guilhem Martin France	27	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	912 1.2×	374 1.1×	327 1.1×	88	2.8k
Richard Otis United States	17	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	571 0.7×	235 0.7×	205 0.7×	43	2.2k
S. Turenne Canada	22	1.2k 0.5×	371 0.5×	943 1.2×	159 0.5×	169 0.6×	89	1.9k
Yuan Zhong China	19	2.1k 0.9×	918 1.1×	828 1.1×	248 0.8×	240 0.8×	54	2.8k
Zhiheng Hu China	31	3.6k 1.6×	2.2k 2.7×	530 0.7×	715 2.2×	173 0.6×	57	3.9k
Gwénaëlle Proust Australia	34	2.3k 1.0×	325 0.4×	1.8k 2.3×	290 0.9×	905 3.1×	97	3.2k
Ayman A. Salem United States	26	2.3k 1.0×	540 0.7×	2.3k 2.9×	217 0.7×	829 2.8×	39	3.3k
Christoph Kenel Switzerland	23	2.0k 0.9×	834 1.0×	580 0.7×	369 1.1×	202 0.7×	51	2.4k
I. M. Richardson Netherlands	28	2.2k 1.0×	223 0.3×	585 0.7×	424 1.3×	530 1.8×	149	2.6k

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Kumar, Punit, David H. Cook, Wenqing Wang, et al.. (2025). Fracture behavior of high-entropy alloys: Resistance to fracture from strain hardening and softening. Matter. 8(4). 102042–102042. 3 indexed citations

Wang, W.L., Punit Kumar, David H. Cook, et al.. (2025). Ductility mechanisms in complex concentrated refractory alloys from atomistic fracture simulations. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 1 indexed citations

Sun, Jin’e, Punit Kumar, Pei Wang, et al.. (2025). Effect of columnar-to-equiaxed microstructural transition on the fatigue performance of a laser powder bed fused high-strength Al alloy. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 227. 276–288. 7 indexed citations

Kumar, Punit, Zhen Yan, Peng Dong, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the strength and plasticity of laser powder bed fused NbMoTaW refractory high-entropy alloy via Ti alloying. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1001. 175043–175043. 12 indexed citations

Kumar, Punit, et al.. (2024). Exceptional cryogenic-to-ambient impact toughness of a low carbon micro-alloyed steel with a multi-heterogeneous structure. Acta Materialia. 274. 120019–120019. 25 indexed citations

Kumar, Punit, Sheng Huang, David H. Cook, et al.. (2024). A strong fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy with nano-bridged honeycomb microstructure intrinsically toughened by 3D-printing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 841–841. 53 indexed citations breakdown →

Kumar, Punit, David H. Cook, Madelyn Payne, et al.. (2024). Degradation of the mechanical properties of NbMoTaW refractory high-entropy alloy in tension. Acta Materialia. 279. 120297–120297. 25 indexed citations

Cook, David H., Punit Kumar, Madelyn Payne, et al.. (2024). Kink bands promote exceptional fracture resistance in a NbTaTiHf refractory medium-entropy alloy. Science. 384(6692). 178–184. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Slone, C.E., Veronika Mazánova, Punit Kumar, et al.. (2024). Partially recrystallized microstructures expand the strength-toughness envelope of CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy. Communications Materials. 5(1). 8 indexed citations

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Venkatesh, B., et al.. (2024). Quantum Filter based CNN for Improved Thyroid Nodule Classification. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Punit, et al.. (2024). Design of an Efficient Model for Wheat Crop Disease Detection Using Multimodal Fusion and Uncertainty Quantification. 88–94.

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Han, Xing, Tianqiong Ma, Brent L. Nannenga, et al.. (2023). Molecular weaving of chicken-wire covalent organic frameworks. Chem. 9(9). 2509–2517. 23 indexed citations

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Kumar, Punit, David H. Cook, Sheng Huang, et al.. (2023). On the strength and fracture toughness of an additive manufactured CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia. 258. 119249–119249. 63 indexed citations

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Huang, Sheng, et al.. (2023). Fracture behavior of PH15-5 stainless steel manufactured via directed energy deposition. Materials & Design. 235. 112421–112421. 4 indexed citations

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Kumar, Punit, et al.. (2023). Tensile and fatigue properties of the binder jet printed and hot isostatically pressed 316L austenitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering A. 868. 144766–144766. 19 indexed citations

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Radhakrishnan, R., et al.. (2022). Fatigue resistance of the binder jet printed 17-4 precipitation hardened martensitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering A. 865. 144451–144451. 17 indexed citations

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Radhakrishnan, R., et al.. (2022). Microstructure and tensile properties of binder jet printed 17–4 precipitation hardened martensitic stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering A. 860. 144270–144270. 26 indexed citations

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Kumar, Punit, et al.. (2022). Role of metastable austenite in the fatigue resistance of 304L stainless steel produced by laser-based powder bed fusion. Materials Science and Engineering A. 837. 142744–142744. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Sheng, Punit Kumar, Wai Yee Yeong, R. Lakshmi Narayan, & Upadrasta Ramamurty. (2021). Fracture behavior of laser powder bed fusion fabricated Ti41Nb via in-situ alloying. Acta Materialia. 225. 117593–117593. 51 indexed citations

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Lu, Lu, Ming Dao, Punit Kumar, et al.. (2020). Extraction of mechanical properties of materials through deep learning from instrumented indentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(13). 7052–7062. 242 indexed citations breakdown →

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