Victor Birman

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
201 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Victor Birman is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Birman has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 101 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 50 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Victor Birman's work include Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (93 papers), Structural Analysis and Optimization (49 papers) and Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (26 papers). Victor Birman is often cited by papers focused on Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (93 papers), Structural Analysis and Optimization (49 papers) and Structural Load-Bearing Analysis (26 papers). Victor Birman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and China. Victor Birman's co-authors include Larry W. Byrd, G. A. Kardomateas, Guy M. Genin, Stavros Thomopoulos, Charles W. Bert, K. Chandrashekhara, Jeffery S. Volz, J. Pablo Marquez, C. W. Bert and Antonio Nanni and has published in prestigious journals such as Biophysical Journal, Science Advances and Materials Science and Engineering A.

In The Last Decade

Victor Birman

190 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Modeling and Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials and Structures

2007 937 citations Victor Birman et al. profile →
Review of current trends in research and applications of sandwich structures

2018 647 citations Victor Birman, G. A. Kardomateas profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Birman United States	34	3.1k	2.3k	1.3k	965	662	201	5.5k
Ashkan Vaziri United States	47	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	4.3k 3.3×	712 0.7×	528 0.8×	144	7.2k
Masaki Hojo Japan	34	2.6k 0.9×	555 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	427 0.4×	208 0.3×	212	4.6k
L. M. Keer United States	57	9.6k 3.1×	1.9k 0.8×	6.1k 4.7×	2.1k 2.2×	515 0.8×	477	13.7k
Vassilis Kostopoulos Greece	37	2.0k 0.6×	993 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	172 0.3×	238	4.7k
Vadim V. Silberschmidt United Kingdom	53	3.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	6.0k 4.6×	1.9k 2.0×	912 1.4×	590	11.6k
António Torres Marques Portugal	36	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	465 0.5×	372 0.6×	202	5.1k
Hamid Nayeb‐Hashemi United States	29	1.1k 0.4×	752 0.3×	2.0k 1.6×	480 0.5×	469 0.7×	129	3.4k
Noboru Kikuchi United States	18	2.0k 0.7×	864 0.4×	813 0.6×	241 0.2×	189 0.3×	41	3.1k
Ivan Giorgio Italy	45	2.8k 0.9×	951 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	2.1k 2.1×	91 0.1×	114	4.7k
Jean‐François Ganghoffer France	32	1.7k 0.5×	517 0.2×	957 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	150 0.2×	148	3.0k

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Birman, Victor. (2025). Effect of temperature on tensile, compressive, and shear strengths of composites. Journal of Thermal Stresses. 48(12). 1548–1567.

Smith, Lester J., Thomas R. Gardner, Victor Birman, et al.. (2024). Python tooth–inspired fixation device for enhanced rotator cuff repair. Science Advances. 10(26). eadl5270–eadl5270. 4 indexed citations

Birman, Victor. (2024). Temperature Effect on the Properties and Response of Composite Materials and Plates. AIAA Journal. 62(11). 4364–4375. 2 indexed citations

Birman, Victor, et al.. (2023). A discrete shear lag model of the mechanics of hitchhiker plants, and its prospective application to tendon-to-bone repair. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 479(2271). 1 indexed citations

Birman, Victor, et al.. (2022). Effects of tendon viscoelasticity on the distribution of forces across sutures in a model of tendon-to-bone repair. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 250. 111725–111725. 1 indexed citations

Golman, Mikhail, Adam C. Abraham, Yizhong Hu, et al.. (2021). Toughening mechanisms for the attachment of architectured materials: The mechanics of the tendon enthesis. Science Advances. 7(48). eabi5584–eabi5584. 39 indexed citations

Golman, Mikhail, Victor Birman, Stavros Thomopoulos, & Guy M. Genin. (2021). Enthesis strength, toughness and stiffness: an image-based model comparing tendon insertions with varying bony attachment geometries. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(185). 20210421–20210421. 10 indexed citations

Birman, Victor. (2020). Stiffness of composites with coated inclusions. Composites Communications. 24. 100604–100604. 6 indexed citations

Birman, Victor. (2020). Stiffness of Three-Phase Concentric Composite Solids. 6(3). 1 indexed citations

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Frostig, Y., Victor Birman, & G. A. Kardomateas. (2018). Non-linear wrinkling of a sandwich panel with functionally graded core – Extended high-order approach. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 148-149. 122–139. 23 indexed citations

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Hu, Yizhong, Victor Birman, Alix C. Deymier-Black, et al.. (2015). Stochastic Interdigitation as a Toughening Mechanism at the Interface between Tendon and Bone. Biophysical Journal. 108(2). 431–437. 47 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor, et al.. (2015). Effective elastic properties of a composite containing multiple types of anisotropic ellipsoidal inclusions, with application to the attachment of tendon to bone. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 82. 367–377. 25 indexed citations

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Thomopoulos, Stavros, Rosalina Das, Victor Birman, et al.. (2010). Fibrocartilage Tissue Engineering: The Role of the Stress Environment on Cell Morphology and Matrix Expression. Tissue Engineering Part A. 17(7-8). 1039–1053. 72 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor. (2007). Shape memory elastic foundation and supports for passive vibration control of composite plates. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 45(1). 320–335. 24 indexed citations

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Kardomateas, G. A., Victor Birman, & Exposition. (2001). Contemporary research in engineering mechanics : presented at the 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 11-16, 2001, New York, New York. American Society of Mechanical Engineers eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor. (1995). Buckling of Functionally Graded Hybrid Composite Plates. Engineering Mechanics. 1199–1202. 57 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor. (1995). Effect of Temperature on Accurate Interpretation of Data from Piezoelectric Sensors. Engineering Mechanics. 762–765. 5 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor, Dimitris A. Saravanos, & Dale A. Hopkins. (1994). Sensory Composite Beams for Delamination Detection in Thermal Environments. 351–358. 1 indexed citations

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Birman, Victor, et al.. (1994). Frequency Method of Detection of Local Damage in Composites. 107–112.

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Birman, Victor. (1988). Response of Symmetrically Laminated Plates to Thermal Dynamic Loading. 1 indexed citations

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