Rob Wolfs

5.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
38 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Rob Wolfs is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Automotive Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Wolfs has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Building and Construction, 28 papers in Automotive Engineering and 9 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rob Wolfs's work include Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (33 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (28 papers) and BIM and Construction Integration (18 papers). Rob Wolfs is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials (33 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (28 papers) and BIM and Construction Integration (18 papers). Rob Wolfs collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and France. Rob Wolfs's co-authors include Freek Bos, T.A.M. Salet, Zeeshan Ahmed, A.S.J. Suiker, Nicolas Roussel, Viktor Mechtcherine, Arnaud Perrot, Venkatesh Naidu Nerella, Mohammed Sonebi and Shirin Fataei and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cement and Concrete Research and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Rob Wolfs

36 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Additive manufacturing of concrete in construction: poten... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2018 2019 2020 2022 250 500 750
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.

  1. Additive manufacturing of concrete in construction: potentials and challenges of 3D concrete printing
    2016 815 citations Freek Bos, Rob Wolfs et al. profile →
  2. Early age mechanical behaviour of 3D printed concrete: Numerical modelling and experimental testing
    2018 589 citations Rob Wolfs, Freek Bos et al. Cement and Concrete Research profile →
  3. Hardened properties of 3D printed concrete: The influence of process parameters on interlayer adhesion
    2019 517 citations Rob Wolfs, Freek Bos et al. Cement and Concrete Research profile →
  4. Extrusion-based additive manufacturing with cement-based materials – Production steps, processes, and their underlying physics: A review
    2020 404 citations Viktor Mechtcherine, Freek Bos et al. Cement and Concrete Research profile →
  5. The realities of additively manufactured concrete structures in practice
    2022 162 citations Freek Bos, Costantino Menna et al. Cement and Concrete Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob Wolfs Netherlands 18 3.8k 3.0k 1.5k 512 295 38 4.0k
T.A.M. Salet Netherlands 18 4.0k 1.1× 3.3k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 566 1.1× 278 0.9× 39 4.3k
Venkatesh Naidu Nerella Germany 22 4.0k 1.1× 3.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 586 1.1× 223 0.8× 32 4.2k
Freek Bos Netherlands 26 5.3k 1.4× 4.3k 1.4× 2.4k 1.6× 739 1.4× 549 1.9× 73 5.8k
Dirk Lowke Germany 21 1.7k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 873 0.6× 241 0.5× 157 0.5× 91 2.0k
Ye Qian Hong Kong 23 2.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 1.5k 1.0× 304 0.6× 215 0.7× 48 2.6k
Norman Hack Germany 20 1.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 538 0.4× 219 0.4× 246 0.8× 41 1.9k
Lex Reiter Switzerland 15 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 653 0.4× 199 0.4× 135 0.5× 25 1.6k
Ming Xia China 26 2.2k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 375 0.7× 474 1.6× 50 3.2k
Ali Kazemian United States 16 1.1k 0.3× 773 0.3× 569 0.4× 165 0.3× 174 0.6× 36 1.5k
Jian Hui Lim Singapore 10 1.2k 0.3× 935 0.3× 487 0.3× 181 0.4× 159 0.5× 12 1.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2025). Data-driven additive manufacturing with concrete: Enhancing in-line sensory data with domain knowledge, Part I: Geometry. Automation in Construction. 172. 106020–106020. 4 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2025). Data-driven additive manufacturing with concrete: Enhancing in-line sensory data with domain knowledge, Part II: Moisture and heat. Automation in Construction. 177. 106327–106327. 1 indexed citations
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Lucas, Sandra S., et al.. (2025). A database framework for 3D concrete printing. Results in Engineering. 29. 108669–108669. 1 indexed citations
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Bos, Freek, Costantino Menna, Rob Wolfs, et al.. (2025). Mechanical properties of 3D printed concrete: a RILEM TC 304-ADC interlaboratory study — approach and main results. Materials and Structures. 58(5). 2 indexed citations
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Kloft, Harald, Freek Bos, Niklas Freund, et al.. (2024). Interaction of reinforcement, process, and form in Digital Fabrication with Concrete. Cement and Concrete Research. 186. 107640–107640. 6 indexed citations
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Shipman, R. F., Shunji Kitamoto, Rob Wolfs, et al.. (2024). In-orbit operation of Resolve Filter Wheel and MXS. 225–225. 1 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2024). Crack width and crack spacing in reinforced and prestressed concrete elements: Data description and acquisition. Data in Brief. 54. 110305–110305. 2 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, Jean‐François Caron, M. Gerke, et al.. (2024). On-line and in-line quality assessment across all scale levels of 3D concrete printing. Cement and Concrete Research. 185. 107646–107646. 16 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2023). Categorization of formulas for calculation of crack width and spacing in reinforced concrete elements. Structural Concrete. 25(1). 32–48. 8 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2023). A quality control framework for digital fabrication with concrete. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 106–112. 7 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, et al.. (2023). Lessons learned of project Milestone: The first 3D printed concrete house in the Netherlands. Materials Today Proceedings. 17 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Zeeshan, Rob Wolfs, Freek Bos, & T.A.M. Salet. (2022). A Framework for Large-Scale Structural Applications of 3D Printed Concrete: the Case of a 29 m Bridge in the Netherlands. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1. 5–19. 23 indexed citations
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Perrot, Arnaud, Alexandre Pierre, Venkatesh Naidu Nerella, et al.. (2021). From analytical methods to numerical simulations: A process engineering toolbox for 3D concrete printing. Cement and Concrete Composites. 122. 104164–104164. 89 indexed citations
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Mechtcherine, Viktor, Richard Buswell, Harald Kloft, et al.. (2021). Integrating reinforcement in digital fabrication with concrete: A review and classification framework. Cement and Concrete Composites. 119. 103964–103964. 144 indexed citations
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Wolfs, Rob, T.A.M. Salet, & Nicolas Roussel. (2021). Filament geometry control in extrusion-based additive manufacturing of concrete: The good, the bad and the ugly. Cement and Concrete Research. 150. 106615–106615. 60 indexed citations
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Mechtcherine, Viktor, Freek Bos, Arnaud Perrot, et al.. (2020). Extrusion-based additive manufacturing with cement-based materials – Production steps, processes, and their underlying physics: A review. Cement and Concrete Research. 132. 106037–106037. 404 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suiker, A.S.J., Rob Wolfs, Sandra S. Lucas, & T.A.M. Salet. (2020). Elastic buckling and plastic collapse during 3D concrete printing. Cement and Concrete Research. 135. 106016–106016. 171 indexed citations
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Roussel, Nicolas, Jon Spangenberg, Jon Elvar Wallevik, & Rob Wolfs. (2020). Numerical simulations of concrete processing: From standard formative casting to additive manufacturing. Cement and Concrete Research. 135. 106075–106075. 82 indexed citations
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Schipper, H.R., et al.. (2017). Double curved concrete printing: Printing on non-planar surfaces. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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