TK O’Brien

97 total papers · 3.2k total citations
60 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

TK O’Brien is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, TK O’Brien has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 24 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 19 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in TK O’Brien’s work include Mechanical Behavior of Composites (39 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (14 papers) and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (10 papers). TK O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Behavior of Composites (39 papers), Fatigue and fracture mechanics (14 papers) and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (10 papers). TK O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. TK O’Brien's co-authors include JE Masters, WS Johnson, WS Johnson, JE Masters, SM Lee, Christopher Pastore, WS Johnson, DW Wilson, RH Martin and JH Crews and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Testing and Evaluation and Journal of Composites Technology and Research.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of TK O’Brien

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of TK O’Brien. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of TK O’Brien 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 TK O’Brien. TK O’Brien is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

TK O’Brien

59 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by TK O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by TK O’Brien

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