Sergi Villalba

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sergi Villalba is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Bioengineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergi Villalba has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 8 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 4 papers in Bioengineering. Recurrent topics in Sergi Villalba's work include Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (13 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (7 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (7 papers). Sergi Villalba is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (13 papers), Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (7 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (7 papers). Sergi Villalba collaborates with scholars based in Spain and Mexico. Sergi Villalba's co-authors include Joan R. Casas, António Barrias, Ángel Aparicio and Gerardo Rodríguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Construction and Building Materials, Sensors and Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Sergi Villalba

13 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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 Review of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors for Civil Engineering Applications

2016 622 citations António Barrias, Joan R. Casas et al. Sensors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sergi Villalba Spain	12	968	790	117	102	100	15	1.3k
António Barrias Spain	8	792 0.8×	564 0.7×	113 1.0×	79 0.8×	70 0.7×	15	991
Jianping He China	15	475 0.5×	419 0.5×	49 0.4×	40 0.4×	119 1.2×	45	705
Chengyu Hong China	10	515 0.5×	353 0.4×	68 0.6×	29 0.3×	92 0.9×	15	675
Filippo Bastianini Italy	11	295 0.3×	259 0.3×	44 0.4×	38 0.4×	66 0.7×	36	482
Marcus Perry United Kingdom	17	196 0.2×	384 0.5×	41 0.4×	33 0.3×	34 0.3×	52	619
Pilate Moyo South Africa	18	232 0.2×	1.2k 1.5×	23 0.2×	15 0.1×	182 1.8×	49	1.4k
Dakai Liang China	14	274 0.3×	171 0.2×	50 0.4×	16 0.2×	77 0.8×	61	479
Aftab A. Mufti Canada	23	275 0.3×	1.5k 1.9×	31 0.3×	22 0.2×	265 2.6×	130	1.8k
Jiangfeng Wu China	16	420 0.4×	162 0.2×	124 1.1×	9 0.1×	47 0.5×	64	712
X. W. Ye China	6	143 0.1×	403 0.5×	20 0.2×	15 0.1×	121 1.2×	9	553

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15 of 15 papers shown

Casas, Joan R., et al.. (2020). Structural Health Monitoring with Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors of tunnel lining affected by nearby construction activity. Automation in Construction. 117. 103261–103261. 114 indexed citations

Casas, Joan R., et al.. (2019). Shear crack pattern identification in concrete elements via distributed optical fibre grid. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. 15(12). 1630–1648. 11 indexed citations

Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2019). Fatigue performance of distributed optical fiber sensors in reinforced concrete elements. Construction and Building Materials. 218. 214–223. 28 indexed citations

Casas, Joan R., et al.. (2019). Shear crack width assessment in concrete structures by 2D distributed optical fiber. Engineering Structures. 195. 508–523. 33 indexed citations

Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2019). SHM of Reinforced Concrete Elements by Rayleigh Backscattering DOFS. Frontiers in Built Environment. 5. 22 indexed citations

Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2018). Distributed optical fibre sensors in concrete structures: Performance of bonding adhesives and influence of spatial resolution. Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 26(3). e2310–e2310. 53 indexed citations

Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2018). Embedded Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors in Reinforced Concrete Structures—A Case Study. Sensors. 18(4). 980–980. 106 indexed citations

Barrias, António, et al.. (2018). Application of distributed optical fiber sensors for the health monitoring of two real structures in Barcelona. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. 14(7). 967–985. 76 indexed citations

Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2017). Application study of embedded Rayleigh based Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors in concrete beams. Procedia Engineering. 199. 2014–2019. 22 indexed citations

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Barrias, António, et al.. (2017). UPC—BarcelonaTech experience on the use of Rayleigh based distributed optical fiber sensors for SHM of concrete structures. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 391–391.

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Barrias, António, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2016). A Review of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors for Civil Engineering Applications. Sensors. 16(5). 748–748. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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Casas, Joan R., et al.. (2015). SHM by DOFS in civil engineering: a review. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 2(4). 357–382. 31 indexed citations

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Rodríguez, Gerardo, Joan R. Casas, & Sergi Villalba. (2014). Assessing cracking characteristics of concrete structures by distributed optical fiber and non-linear finite element modelling. RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya). 1 indexed citations

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Villalba, Sergi, et al.. (2012). New Structural Joint by Rebar Looping Applied to Segmental Bridge Construction: Fatigue Strength Tests. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 18(11). 1174–1188. 8 indexed citations

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Villalba, Sergi & Joan R. Casas. (2012). Application of optical fiber distributed sensing to health monitoring of concrete structures. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 39(1-2). 441–451. 149 indexed citations

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