Timothy C. Ovaert

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Timothy C. Ovaert is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy C. Ovaert has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 15 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Timothy C. Ovaert's work include Tribology and Wear Analysis (28 papers), Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (17 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (17 papers). Timothy C. Ovaert is often cited by papers focused on Tribology and Wear Analysis (28 papers), Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (17 papers) and Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis (17 papers). Timothy C. Ovaert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Timothy C. Ovaert's co-authors include Ellen Kuhl, Silvia Budday, Paul Steinmann, R. de Rooij, Thomas J. Wyrobek, Richard Nay, Glen L. Niebur, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Johannes Weickenmeier and Jing‐Zhou Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Biomechanics and Acta Biomaterialia.

In The Last Decade

Timothy C. Ovaert

65 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Mechanical properties of gray and white matter brain tissue by indentation

2015 508 citations Silvia Budday, Richard Nay et al. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials profile →
Fifty Shades of Brain: A Review on the Mechanical Testing and Modeling of Brain Tissue

2019 319 citations Silvia Budday, Timothy C. Ovaert et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy C. Ovaert United States	24	959	622	415	408	349	65	2.3k
Simona Socrate United States	29	762 0.8×	652 1.0×	484 1.2×	273 0.7×	255 0.7×	61	2.7k
J.A.W. van Dommelen Netherlands	31	1.1k 1.2×	790 1.3×	868 2.1×	765 1.9×	126 0.4×	118	3.5k
Patrick McGarry Ireland	34	1.2k 1.3×	515 0.8×	341 0.8×	447 1.1×	992 2.8×	104	3.0k
Silvia Budday Germany	27	2.1k 2.2×	220 0.4×	678 1.6×	1.0k 2.5×	285 0.8×	85	3.7k
Arthur F.T. Mak Hong Kong	33	1.9k 2.0×	346 0.6×	221 0.5×	124 0.3×	995 2.9×	92	3.7k
Gerhard Sommer Austria	29	2.9k 3.0×	287 0.5×	343 0.8×	1.4k 3.5×	1.6k 4.7×	68	4.0k
Y. Lanir Israel	34	2.4k 2.5×	419 0.7×	431 1.0×	521 1.3×	1.1k 3.0×	79	3.8k
Victor H. Barocas United States	44	2.7k 2.9×	309 0.5×	284 0.7×	492 1.2×	1.0k 3.0×	191	5.8k
Nikolay V. Vasilyev United States	30	2.3k 2.4×	191 0.3×	539 1.3×	371 0.9×	1.3k 3.9×	92	4.4k
Yuan Feng China	20	724 0.8×	143 0.2×	179 0.4×	407 1.0×	98 0.3×	85	1.4k

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Weickenmeier, Johannes, Mehmet Kurt, R. de Rooij, et al.. (2018). Brain stiffens post mortem. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 84. 88–98. 76 indexed citations

Weickenmeier, Johannes, R. de Rooij, Silvia Budday, Timothy C. Ovaert, & Ellen Kuhl. (2017). The mechanical importance of myelination in the central nervous system. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 76. 119–124. 66 indexed citations

Weickenmeier, Johannes, R. de Rooij, Silvia Budday, et al.. (2016). Brain stiffness increases with myelin content. Acta Biomaterialia. 42. 265–272. 206 indexed citations

Budday, Silvia, Richard Nay, R. de Rooij, et al.. (2015). Mechanical properties of gray and white matter brain tissue by indentation. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 46. 318–330. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

Ovaert, Timothy C., et al.. (2014). The effect of collagen crosslinking on the biphasic poroviscoelastic cartilage properties determined from a semi-automated microindentation protocol for stress relaxation. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 34. 264–272. 16 indexed citations

Ovaert, Timothy C., et al.. (2013). Low friction hydrogel for articular cartilage repair: Evaluation of mechanical and tribological properties in comparison with natural cartilage tissue. Materials Science and Engineering C. 33(7). 4377–4383. 41 indexed citations

Alber, Mark, et al.. (2012). Mechano-rheological properties of the murine thrombus determined via nanoindentation and finite element modeling. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 10. 75–86. 26 indexed citations

Nélias, Daniel, et al.. (2012). Contact analyses for anisotropic half-space coated with an anisotropic layer: Effect of the anisotropy on the pressure distribution and contact area. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 50(5). 743–754. 39 indexed citations

Ovaert, Timothy C., et al.. (2012). A novel polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel functionalized with organic boundary lubricant for use as low‐friction cartilage substitute: Synthesis, physical/chemical, mechanical, and friction characterization. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 100B(7). 1755–1763. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingzhou, et al.. (2011). Direct comparison of nanoindentation and macroscopic measurements of bone viscoelasticity. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 4(8). 2055–2062. 37 indexed citations

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Wu, Ziheng, et al.. (2011). The effect of holding time on nanoindentation measurements of creep in bone. Journal of Biomechanics. 44(6). 1066–1072. 54 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yang, Ziheng Wu, Simon Turner, et al.. (2011). Indentation experiments and simulation of ovine bone using a viscoelastic-plastic damage model. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 27(1). 368–377. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Ziheng, Timothy C. Ovaert, & Glen L. Niebur. (2011). Viscoelastic properties of human cortical bone tissue depend on gender and elastic modulus. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 30(5). 693–699. 54 indexed citations

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Ovaert, Timothy C., et al.. (2010). Poro-viscoelastic constitutive modeling of unconfined creep of hydrogels using finite element analysis with integrated optimization method. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 4(3). 440–450. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jing‐Zhou, et al.. (2009). Characterization of indentation response and stiffness reduction of bone using a continuum damage model. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 3(2). 189–202. 53 indexed citations

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Liu, Kaifeng, Mark R. VanLandingham, & Timothy C. Ovaert. (2008). Mechanical characterization of soft viscoelastic gels via indentation and optimization-based inverse finite element analysis. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 2(4). 355–363. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jing‐Zhou, Glen L. Niebur, & Timothy C. Ovaert. (2007). Mechanical property determination of bone through nano- and micro-indentation testing and finite element simulation. Journal of Biomechanics. 41(2). 267–275. 87 indexed citations

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Ovaert, Timothy C. & S. Ramachandra. (1997). Wear Particle Formation of Polymers Against Smooth Hardened Steel Counterfaces. Tribology Transactions. 40(3). 445–452. 15 indexed citations

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Ovaert, Timothy C.. (1997). Wear of Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composites with Fiber Orientation in the Plane of Contact. Tribology Transactions. 40(2). 227–234. 17 indexed citations

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Ovaert, Timothy C.. (1995). On the Wear Behavior of Longitudinally (Parallel) Oriented Unidirectional Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites. Tribology Transactions. 38(1). 27–34. 20 indexed citations

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