Said Elias

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Said Elias is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Said Elias has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 11 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 8 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Said Elias's work include Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids (51 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (50 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (25 papers). Said Elias is often cited by papers focused on Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids (51 papers), Seismic Performance and Analysis (50 papers) and Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis (25 papers). Said Elias collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, Germany and India. Said Elias's co-authors include Vasant Matsagar, T. K. Datta, Rajesh Rupakhety, Salah Djerouni, Mahdi Abdeddaim, Arvind K. Jain, Símon Ólafsson, Onur Araz, Michael Beer and Dario De Domenico and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, Engineering Structures and Journal of Structural Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Said Elias

62 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Research developments in vibration control of structures using passive tuned mass dampers

2017 376 citations Said Elias, Vasant Matsagar Annual Reviews in Control profile →
Optimum tuned mass damper inerter under near-fault pulse-like ground motions of buildings including soil-structure interaction

2024 44 citations Said Elias, Salah Djerouni Journal of Building Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Said Elias Iceland	28	1.9k	349	249	211	76	66	2.1k
Michael P. Nemeth United States	23	1.2k 0.6×	221 0.6×	379 1.5×	75 0.4×	44 0.6×	96	1.7k
Haoran Zuo Australia	16	848 0.5×	346 1.0×	126 0.5×	402 1.9×	104 1.4×	30	1.1k
Yimin Xia China	22	1.0k 0.5×	99 0.3×	712 2.9×	69 0.3×	26 0.3×	94	1.4k
José Luis Almazán Chile	25	1.3k 0.7×	253 0.7×	190 0.8×	195 0.9×	30 0.4×	75	1.6k
Kan Kan China	20	532 0.3×	111 0.3×	907 3.6×	334 1.6×	15 0.2×	73	1.5k
Weixing Shi China	24	1.8k 0.9×	328 0.9×	338 1.4×	192 0.9×	60 0.8×	55	1.9k
Wilfried B. Krätzig Germany	19	732 0.4×	157 0.4×	332 1.3×	124 0.6×	139 1.8×	89	1.2k
Joshua Paquette United States	16	304 0.2×	162 0.5×	180 0.7×	156 0.7×	163 2.1×	45	762
Oya Mercan Canada	20	875 0.5×	374 1.1×	563 2.3×	172 0.8×	56 0.7×	73	1.4k
Daniel A. Kuchma United States	26	1.9k 1.0×	110 0.3×	287 1.2×	43 0.2×	41 0.5×	88	2.2k

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Irshad, Ahmad Shah, et al.. (2025). Power capacity enhancement of hydropower plant through the penetration of solar and wind energy. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 169. 110787–110787. 5 indexed citations

Elias, Said, Michael Beer, & Jiye Chen. (2025). Assessing seismic vulnerability of modular buildings under earthquake ground motions. Engineering Structures. 331. 120002–120002. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Pinle, et al.. (2025). Seismic performance of RC short-leg shear walls reinforced with HF-ECC: Experimental and numerical investigations. Structures. 80. 110042–110042. 2 indexed citations

Irshad, Ahmad Shah, et al.. (2025). Optimization of coal sustainability via hybrid renewable integration: A PVsyst-HOMER Synergistic framework for sustainable energy transitions. Energy Conversion and Management X. 27. 101110–101110. 3 indexed citations

Elias, Said, et al.. (2025). Resilience-oriented seismic retrofit of heritage masonry minarets using hybrid base isolation and supplemental damping. Structures. 83. 110893–110893.

Li, Peizhen, et al.. (2025). Multi-objective fuzzy fractional-order BELBIC for semi-active seismic control in non-linear building structures. Engineering Structures. 343. 121224–121224.

Elias, Said, Michael Beer, & Hussam Mahmoud. (2025). Assessments of Seismic Response and Energy Harvesting of Offshore Wind Turbines Equipped with Tuned Mass Damper Inerter. Journal of Structural Engineering. 151(10).

Miguel, Leandro Fleck Fadel, Said Elias, & André T. Beck. (2024). Reliability-based optimization of supported pendulum TMDs’ nonlinear track shape using Padé approximants. Engineering Structures. 306. 117861–117861. 7 indexed citations

Araz, Onur & Said Elias. (2024). Performance of differently arranged double-tuned mass dampers for structural seismic response control including soil-structure interaction. Engineering Structures. 319. 118841–118841. 18 indexed citations

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Djerouni, Salah, Said Elias, Mahdi Abdeddaim, & Rajesh Rupakhety. (2024). Multi-tuned mass damper inerter (MTMDI) system for earthquake-induced vibration control of buildings. Engineering Structures. 322. 119139–119139. 26 indexed citations

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Elias, Said & Michael Beer. (2024). Vibration control and energy harvesting of offshore wind turbines installed with TMDI under dynamical loading. Engineering Structures. 315. 118459–118459. 27 indexed citations

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Araz, Onur, et al.. (2023). Seismic-induced vibration control of a multi-story building with double tuned mass dampers considering soil-structure interaction. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 166. 107765–107765. 49 indexed citations

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Elias, Said. (2023). Vibration improvement of offshore wind turbines under multiple hazards. Structures. 59. 105800–105800. 23 indexed citations

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Elias, Said, et al.. (2021). Semi-active vibration control of building structure by Self Tuned Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller. Journal of Building Engineering. 46. 103664–103664. 31 indexed citations

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Elias, Said, et al.. (2021). Research developments in adaptive intelligent vibration control of smart civil structures. Journal of low frequency noise, vibration and active control. 41(1). 292–329. 29 indexed citations

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Elias, Said, et al.. (2020). Seismic Response Mitigation of Base-Isolated Buildings. Applied Sciences. 10(4). 1230–1230. 25 indexed citations

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Elias, Said. (2020). Discussion of “Effect of Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers for Vibration Control in High-Rise Buildings” by Lekshmi Suresh and K. M. Mini. Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction. 26(1). 3 indexed citations

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Elias, Said, et al.. (2019). Seismic response control of asymmetric buildings using tuned mass dampers. The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings. 28(18). 23 indexed citations

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Elias, Said, Vasant Matsagar, & T. K. Datta. (2019). Dynamic Response Control of a Wind-Excited Tall Building with Distributed Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. 19(6). 1950059–1950059. 44 indexed citations

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Elias, Said & Vasant Matsagar. (2017). Research developments in vibration control of structures using passive tuned mass dampers. Annual Reviews in Control. 44. 129–156. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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