Raffaele Vinai

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Raffaele Vinai is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Raffaele Vinai has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 33 papers in Building and Construction and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Raffaele Vinai's work include Concrete and Cement Materials Research (25 papers), Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production (17 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (11 papers). Raffaele Vinai is often cited by papers focused on Concrete and Cement Materials Research (25 papers), Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production (17 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (11 papers). Raffaele Vinai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Burkina Faso. Raffaele Vinai's co-authors include Marios Soutsos, Claudio Oggeri, Wei Sha, Daniele Peila, Tống Tôn Kiên, S. J. Barnett, Pierpaolo Oreste, Alan P. Boyle, N. Innaurato and Akbar A. Javadi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Raffaele Vinai

57 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

A state-of-the-art review on the application of auxetic materials in cementitious composites

2024 62 citations Mohammad Hajsadeghi, Raffaele Vinai et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raffaele Vinai United Kingdom	22	1.8k	933	587	327	265	62	2.2k
Xi Jiang China	33	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	571 1.0×	82 0.3×	319 1.2×	82	3.0k
Zhaofeng Li China	28	1.7k 0.9×	695 0.7×	397 0.7×	159 0.5×	542 2.0×	81	2.1k
Patrice Rivard Canada	31	2.0k 1.1×	560 0.6×	326 0.6×	554 1.7×	182 0.7×	94	2.7k
Mingjiang Tao United States	27	2.7k 1.4×	871 0.9×	628 1.1×	125 0.4×	756 2.9×	81	3.3k
Marios Soutsos United Kingdom	32	3.8k 2.0×	2.1k 2.3×	1.2k 2.0×	208 0.6×	208 0.8×	111	4.4k
Erez N. Allouche United States	21	1.5k 0.8×	662 0.7×	545 0.9×	203 0.6×	124 0.5×	66	1.9k
Dilan Robert Australia	26	1.6k 0.9×	342 0.4×	298 0.5×	135 0.4×	415 1.6×	152	2.1k
Kevin J. Folliard United States	27	2.7k 1.4×	757 0.8×	477 0.8×	213 0.7×	252 1.0×	116	3.0k
Iman M. Nikbin Iran	31	2.4k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	535 0.9×	66 0.2×	183 0.7×	43	2.9k
Shamsad Ahmad Saudi Arabia	33	3.6k 2.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.2k 2.1×	90 0.3×	232 0.9×	147	4.2k

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Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Design and construction of concrete shells using semi-flexible auxetic grids as formwork. Structures. 80. 109833–109833. 1 indexed citations

Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2025). Compressive behaviour of mortar panels reinforced with polymeric auxetic lattices: Experimental testing and numerical modelling. Construction and Building Materials. 503. 144585–144585.

Tang, Panpan, Akbar A. Javadi, & Raffaele Vinai. (2025). Calcium carbide residue for clay stabilisation: mechanical and microstructural properties. Transportation Geotechnics. 51. 101543–101543. 5 indexed citations

Dai, Shuang, et al.. (2024). EnergyNet: A modality-aware attention fusion network for building energy efficiency classification. Applied Energy. 379. 124888–124888. 2 indexed citations

Eames, Matt, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Building Energy Efficiency through Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) Integration: A Systematic Review. Buildings. 14(3). 581–581. 16 indexed citations

Hajsadeghi, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Construction, testing, and analysis of a shape-optimised concrete beam with stay-in-place CFRP textile formwork. Sustainable materials and technologies. 43. e01201–e01201.

Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2023). Development of Cement Stabilised Compressed Blocks Using Coal Bottom Ash: Influence of the Grain Size on Mechanical and Physical Properties of Blocks. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 3(1). 81–94. 1 indexed citations

Oggeri, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Large Scale Trials of Waste Mine Burden Backfilling in Pit Lakes: Impact on Sulphate Content and Suspended Solids in Water. Sustainability. 15(9). 7387–7387. 3 indexed citations

Bondar, Dali & Raffaele Vinai. (2022). Chemical and Microstructural Properties of Fly Ash and Fly Ash/Slag Activated by Waste Glass-Derived Sodium Silicate. Crystals. 12(7). 913–913. 5 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2021). Production of sodium silicate from bamboo leaf ash for alkali activation of binders. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 5 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2020). Mechanical, thermal, hygroscopic and acoustic properties of bio-aggregates – lime and alkali - activated insulating composite materials: A review of current status and prospects for miscanthus as an innovative resource in the South West of England. Sustainable materials and technologies. 26. e00211–e00211. 37 indexed citations

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Sas, Zoltán, Rory Doherty, Raffaele Vinai, et al.. (2018). Radiological evaluation of industrial residues for construction purposes correlated with their chemical properties. The Science of The Total Environment. 658. 141–151. 19 indexed citations

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Oggeri, Claudio, et al.. (2017). Tunnelling muck classification: definition and application. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2017). Guidelines for mix proportioning of fly ash/GGBS based alkali activated concretes. Construction and Building Materials. 147. 130–142. 186 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2017). Utilisation of coal bottom ash for the production of compressed building blocks in Sub-Saharan countries. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1 indexed citations

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Blengini, Gian Andrea, Elena Garbarino, Deborah J. Shields, et al.. (2012). Life Cycle Assessment guidelines for the sustainable production and recycling of aggregates: the Sustainable Aggregates Resource Management project (SARMa). Journal of Cleaner Production. 27. 177–181. 66 indexed citations

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Oggeri, Claudio & Raffaele Vinai. (2012). SOIL CONDITIONING AND GROUND MONITORING FOR SHIELD TUNNELLING. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 18(4). 2–14. 4 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, et al.. (2012). Coal combustion residues valorisation: Research and development on compressed brick production. Construction and Building Materials. 40. 1088–1096. 33 indexed citations

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Vinai, Raffaele, Claudio Oggeri, Daniele Peila, & Sebastiano Pelizza. (2006). Condizionamento con schiuma dei terreni per applicazioni EPB: sperimentazione mediante un nuovo apparato di laboratorio. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 2 indexed citations

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Innaurato, N., Claudio Oggeri, Pierpaolo Oreste, & Raffaele Vinai. (2006). Experimental and Numerical Studies on Rock Breaking with TBM Tools under High Stress Confinement. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 40(5). 429–451. 149 indexed citations

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