Sara McMains

1.8k total citations
78 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sara McMains is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara McMains has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 31 papers in Computational Mechanics and 29 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sara McMains's work include Manufacturing Process and Optimization (24 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (24 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (22 papers). Sara McMains is often cited by papers focused on Manufacturing Process and Optimization (24 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (24 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (22 papers). Sara McMains collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Sara McMains's co-authors include Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Bodi Yuan, Carlo H. Séquin, Brian Giera, Xiaorui Chen, Gabe Guss, Manyalibo J. Matthews, J. Karl Hedrick, Xiang Li and Hari Balakrishnan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Communications of the ACM and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Sara McMains

78 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara McMains United States	21	441	396	369	303	244	78	1.4k
Weiming Wang China	18	441 1.0×	260 0.7×	262 0.7×	260 0.9×	150 0.6×	118	1.6k
Kai Yu Hong Kong	24	441 1.0×	777 2.0×	509 1.4×	222 0.7×	75 0.3×	119	1.7k
Mark Price United Kingdom	26	124 0.3×	1.1k 2.8×	471 1.3×	305 1.0×	243 1.0×	138	2.5k
Heping Chen United States	25	154 0.3×	663 1.7×	493 1.3×	219 0.7×	65 0.3×	188	2.1k
F. Kimura Japan	25	219 0.5×	983 2.5×	561 1.5×	329 1.1×	159 0.7×	92	2.0k
Matthew M. F. Yuen Hong Kong	24	149 0.3×	174 0.4×	172 0.5×	784 2.6×	504 2.1×	70	1.8k
Shuming Gao China	19	133 0.3×	306 0.8×	607 1.6×	671 2.2×	380 1.6×	99	1.4k
Juntong Xi China	24	632 1.4×	660 1.7×	610 1.7×	213 0.7×	29 0.1×	125	2.1k
Krishnan Suresh United States	27	619 1.4×	611 1.5×	623 1.7×	426 1.4×	155 0.6×	112	2.7k
S.T. Tan Hong Kong	18	442 1.0×	354 0.9×	585 1.6×	418 1.4×	205 0.8×	72	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara McMains

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara McMains. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara McMains based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara McMains. Sara McMains is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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McMains, Sara, et al.. (2024). Exploring the impact of design tool usage on design for additive manufacturing processes and outcomes. Design Science. 10. 5 indexed citations

Li, Xiang, et al.. (2023). Deep reinforcement learning for stacking sequence optimization of composite laminates. Manufacturing Letters. 35. 1203–1213. 2 indexed citations

McMains, Sara, et al.. (2021). Will it print: a manufacturability toolbox for 3D printing. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM). 15(4). 613–630. 20 indexed citations

McMains, Sara, et al.. (2020). Improving Outcomes and Participation in the Prototyping Process Using Design-for-Additive-Manufacturing Training. International journal of engineering education. 36(4). 3 indexed citations

Oh, Myoung Hwan, Min Gee Cho, Dong Young Chung, et al.. (2020). Design and synthesis of multigrain nanocrystals via geometric misfit strain. Nature. 577(7790). 359–363. 73 indexed citations

Yuan, Bodi, Brian Giera, Gabe Guss, Manyalibo J. Matthews, & Sara McMains. (2019). Semi-Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks for In-Situ Video Monitoring of Selective Laser Melting. 744–753. 41 indexed citations

Li, Xiang, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Iddo Hanniel, & Sara McMains. (2019). Edge topology construction of Voronoi diagrams of spheres in non-general position. Computers & Graphics. 82. 332–342. 15 indexed citations

Yuan, Bodi, et al.. (2018). Iterative Cross Learning on Noisy Labels. 757–765. 26 indexed citations

McMains, Sara, et al.. (2012). Filling trim cracks on GPU-rendered solid models. Computer-Aided Design. 45(2). 535–539. 5 indexed citations

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Krishnamurthy, Adarsh, et al.. (2011). GPU-Accelerated Minimum Distance and Clearance Queries. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17(6). 729–742. 14 indexed citations

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Grosse, Ian R., et al.. (2009). Introducing New Associate Editors. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 9(3). 30201–30201. 34 indexed citations

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Krishnamurthy, Adarsh, et al.. (2009). Performing Efficient NURBS Modeling Operations on the GPU. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 15(4). 530–543. 22 indexed citations

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Arbelaez, D., et al.. (2008). Cleanability of Mechanical Components. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara & Peter‐Pike Sloan. (2007). ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses. 43(6). 1190–1199. 15 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara, et al.. (2006). Haptic Force Shading Parameter Effects on Path Tracing Accuracy. 78. 5 indexed citations

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Dornfeld, David, et al.. (2006). Design and Manufacturing for Cleanability in High Performance Cutting. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 8 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara, et al.. (2005). Layered manufacturing as a graphics display device. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara, et al.. (2004). Evaluation of drawing on 3D surfaces with haptics. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 24(6). 40–50. 22 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara, et al.. (2003). Thin-Wall Calculation for Layered Manufacturing. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. 3(3). 210–218. 4 indexed citations

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McMains, Sara & Carlo H. Séquin. (1999). A coherent sweep plane slicer for layered manufacturing. 285–295. 25 indexed citations

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