R. A. Ricks

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

R. A. Ricks is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R. A. Ricks has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 16 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R. A. Ricks's work include Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (16 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (13 papers) and Metallurgy and Material Forming (9 papers). R. A. Ricks is often cited by papers focused on Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties (16 papers), Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (13 papers) and Metallurgy and Material Forming (9 papers). R. A. Ricks collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Poland. R. A. Ricks's co-authors include P. R. Howell, Angus Porter, R. C. Ecob, R. W. K. Honeycombe, G. J. Marshall, P. R. Howell, J. Fine, S. P. Timothy, T.W. Clyne and J. V. Bee and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Materials Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences and Metallurgical Transactions A.

In The Last Decade

R. A. Ricks

29 papers receiving 975 citations

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The nature of acicular ferrite in HSLA steel weld metals

1982 348 citations R. A. Ricks, P. R. Howell et al. Journal of Materials Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. A. Ricks United Kingdom	13	992	527	260	227	220	29	1.1k
R. A. Mulford United States	13	1.1k 1.1×	841 1.6×	259 1.0×	449 2.0×	389 1.8×	14	1.4k
Raghavan Ayer United States	18	869 0.9×	589 1.1×	292 1.1×	188 0.8×	225 1.0×	55	1.1k
Staffan Hertzman Sweden	20	898 0.9×	554 1.1×	152 0.6×	168 0.7×	602 2.7×	41	1.1k
Michael F. Henry United States	18	914 0.9×	532 1.0×	318 1.2×	293 1.3×	97 0.4×	39	1.1k
A. Coujou France	24	1.2k 1.2×	841 1.6×	316 1.2×	326 1.4×	73 0.3×	71	1.4k
M.W. Grabski Poland	19	800 0.8×	829 1.6×	193 0.7×	299 1.3×	63 0.3×	45	1.0k
Toshihiro Hanamura Japan	20	1.2k 1.2×	864 1.6×	88 0.3×	359 1.6×	231 1.1×	50	1.3k
Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat Switzerland	15	890 0.9×	876 1.7×	235 0.9×	298 1.3×	144 0.7×	24	1.2k
I.S. Batra India	14	785 0.8×	643 1.2×	278 1.1×	174 0.8×	108 0.5×	21	1.0k
M.R. Plichta United States	13	691 0.7×	593 1.1×	120 0.5×	151 0.7×	52 0.2×	29	837

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Ricks, R. A.. (1999). The deformation models needed by the aluminium industry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 357(1756). 1513–1529. 13 indexed citations

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Marshall, G. J., et al.. (1994). The Influence of Initial Microstructure on the Recrystallization Textures of Aluminium Alloys after Hot Deformation by Laboratory Simulation. Materials science forum. 157-162. 1145–1152. 6 indexed citations

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Marshall, G. J. & R. A. Ricks. (1993). Role of Iron during Recovery and Recrystallization of Aluminium-Iron Alloys. Materials science forum. 113-115. 245–250. 6 indexed citations

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Evans, P.V., et al.. (1993). Squeeze casting of aluminium alloys for near net shape manufacture. Materials & Design (1980-2015). 14(1). 65–67. 5 indexed citations

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Marshall, G. J., et al.. (1991). Controlling lower temperature recovery and recrystallisation in commercial purity aluminium. Materials Science and Technology. 7(3). 263–269. 1 indexed citations

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Timothy, S. P., et al.. (1991). Simulation of single pass of hot rolling deformation of aluminium alloy by plane strain compression. Materials Science and Technology. 7(3). 255–263. 2 indexed citations

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Timothy, S. P., et al.. (1991). Simulation of single pass of hot rolling deformation of aluminium alloy by plane strain compression. Materials Science and Technology. 7(3). 255–263. 24 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A., Nicholas J.E. Adkins, & T.W. Clyne. (1986). Production of Ultrafine Aluminium Powder by High Pressure Gas Atomization. Powder Metallurgy. 29(1). 27–32. 6 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A. & T.W. Clyne. (1985). Bulk production of ultrafine metallic powder by high pressure gas atomization. Journal of Materials Science Letters. 4(7). 814–817. 8 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A.. (1984). Duplex grain boundary precipitation in austenitic stainless steels containing aluminium and titanium. Acta Metallurgica. 32(7). 1105–1115. 3 indexed citations

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Porter, Angus, R. A. Ricks, & R. C. Ecob. (1983). Comments on ?Long term growth of ?? particles?. Journal of Materials Science. 18(6). 1895–1896. 4 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A., Angus Porter, & R. C. Ecob. (1983). The growth of γ′ precipitates in nickel-base superalloys. Acta Metallurgica. 31(1). 43–53. 302 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A. & P. R. Howell. (1983). The formation of discrete precipitate dispersions on mobile interphase boundaries in iron-base alloys. Acta Metallurgica. 31(6). 853–861. 94 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A. & P. R. Howell. (1983). Precipitation on growth ledges of planar, low energy interphase boundaries in Fe-C-X alloys. Journal of Materials Science. 18(11). 3393–3398. 2 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A. & P. R. Howell. (1982). Bowing mechanism for interphase boundary migration in alloy steels. Metal Science. 16(6). 317–322. 33 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A., et al.. (1981). The effect of chromium and nickel on the γ→α phase transformation in steels and iron‐base alloys. Journal of Microscopy. 124(1). 23–35. 9 indexed citations

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Howell, P. R., R. A. Ricks, J. V. Bee, & R. W. K. Honeycombe. (1980). Precipitate orientations in isothermally transformed iron-base alloys. Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties. 41(2). 165–175. 16 indexed citations

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Howell, P. R., R. A. Ricks, & R. W. K. Honeycombe. (1980). The observation of interphase precipitation in association with the lateral growth of Widmanstätten ferrite. Journal of Materials Science. 15(2). 376–380. 12 indexed citations

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Howell, P. R., R. A. Ricks, & R. W. K. Honeycombe. (1980). The observation of interphase precipitation in association with the lateral growth of Widmanstätten ferrite. Journal of Materials Science. 15(2). 376–380. 9 indexed citations

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Ricks, R. A., P. R. Howell, & R. W. K. Honeycombe. (1980). Formation of supersaturated ferrite during decomposition of austenite in iron–copper and iron–copper–nickel alloys. Metal Science. 14(12). 562–568. 25 indexed citations

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