Victor C. Li

47.6k total citations · 21 hit papers
513 papers, 36.8k citations indexed

About

Victor C. Li is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor C. Li has authored 513 papers receiving a total of 36.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 406 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 303 papers in Building and Construction and 60 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Victor C. Li's work include Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (344 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (223 papers) and Concrete and Cement Materials Research (179 papers). Victor C. Li is often cited by papers focused on Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (344 papers), Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete (223 papers) and Concrete and Cement Materials Research (179 papers). Victor C. Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ukraine. Victor C. Li's co-authors include Christopher K.Y. Leung, Tetsushi Kanda, Mustafa Şahmaran, Shuxin Wang, Michael D. Lepech, En‐Hua Yang, Gregor Fischer, Ravi Ranade, Duo Zhang and Stanley Backer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Victor C. Li

497 papers receiving 34.7k citations

Hit Papers

On Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) 1990 2026 2002 2014 2003 1992 2001 2002 2009 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. On Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC)
    2003 1.3k citations Victor C. Li profile →
  2. Steady‐State and Multiple Cracking of Short Random Fiber Composites
    1992 1.2k citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  3. Tensile Strain-Hardening Behavior of Polyvinyl Alcohol Engineered Cementitious Composite (PVA-ECC)
    2001 1.1k citations Victor C. Li, Shuxin Wang et al. profile →
  4. Interface Tailoring for Strain-Hardening Polyvinyl Alcohol-Engineered Cementitious Composite (PVA-ECC)
    2002 663 citations Victor C. Li, Shuxin Wang et al. profile →
  5. Autogenous healing of engineered cementitious composites under wet–dry cycles
    2009 570 citations Yingzi Yang, Michael D. Lepech et al. profile →
  6. FROM MICROMECHANICS TO STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
    1993 440 citations Victor C. Li profile →
  7. Engineered Cementitious Composites with High-Volume Fly Ash
    2007 429 citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  8. Matrix design for pseudo-strain-hardening fibre reinforced cementitious composites
    1995 412 citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  9. Fiber-Bridging Constitutive Law of Engineered Cementitious Composites
    2008 407 citations Shuxin Wang, Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  10. Durability properties of micro-cracked ECC containing high volumes fly ash
    2009 373 citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  11. Effect of inclining angle, bundling and surface treatment on synthetic fibre pull-out from a cement matrix
    1990 343 citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  12. Integrated digital twin and blockchain framework to support accountable information sharing in construction projects
    2021 298 citations Victor C. Li et al. profile →
  13. Seawater sea-sand engineered/strain-hardening cementitious composites (ECC/SHCC): Assessment and modeling of crack characteristics
    2020 271 citations Bo-Tao Huang, Jian‐Guo Dai et al. profile →
  14. Discontinuous micro-fibers as intrinsic reinforcement for ductile Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC)
    2020 266 citations Duo Zhang, Beata Jaworska et al. Composites Part B Engineering profile →
  15. On the emergence of 3D printable Engineered, Strain Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC)
    2020 256 citations Victor C. Li, Kequan Yu et al. profile →
  16. Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC)
    2019 227 citations Victor C. Li profile →
  17. Ultra-high-strength engineered/strain-hardening cementitious composites (ECC/SHCC): Material design and effect of fiber hybridization
    2022 216 citations Bo-Tao Huang, Ji-Xiang Zhu et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →
  18. The greening of engineered cementitious composites (ECC): A review
    2022 171 citations He Zhu, Duo Zhang et al. Construction and Building Materials profile →
  19. High-strength high-ductility Engineered/Strain-Hardening Cementitious Composites (ECC/SHCC) incorporating geopolymer fine aggregates
    2021 160 citations Ling-Yu Xu, Bo-Tao Huang et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →
  20. Tensile over-saturated cracking of Ultra-High-Strength Engineered Cementitious Composites (UHS-ECC) with artificial geopolymer aggregates
    2022 128 citations Ling-Yu Xu, Bo-Tao Huang et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →
  21. New opportunity: Materials genome strategy for engineered cementitious composites (ECC) design
    2025 19 citations Jiangtao Yu, Victor C. Li et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Victor C. Li United States 109 32.5k 22.3k 3.2k 2.8k 2.4k 513 36.8k
Surendra P. Shah United States 104 27.9k 0.9× 12.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 5.9k 2.1× 5.5k 2.3× 583 33.0k
Feng Xing China 76 16.1k 0.5× 8.1k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 5.4k 1.9× 1.0k 0.4× 640 21.1k
Jay Sanjayan Australia 95 22.4k 0.7× 15.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 7.2k 2.6× 547 0.2× 425 29.7k
Jorge de Brito Portugal 101 26.7k 0.8× 28.7k 1.3× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 756 0.3× 714 36.9k
Togay Ozbakkaloglu United States 77 16.0k 0.5× 13.4k 0.6× 573 0.2× 2.0k 0.7× 763 0.3× 299 19.3k
H.J.H. Brouwers Netherlands 76 13.7k 0.4× 8.0k 0.4× 901 0.3× 5.9k 2.1× 484 0.2× 432 19.5k
Wengui Li Australia 67 13.6k 0.4× 7.6k 0.3× 833 0.3× 3.0k 1.1× 674 0.3× 290 16.6k
Viktor Mechtcherine Germany 75 11.8k 0.4× 11.0k 0.5× 533 0.2× 1.6k 0.6× 574 0.2× 373 17.6k
Guowei Ma China 75 10.9k 0.3× 6.8k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 2.3k 0.8× 6.9k 2.9× 503 20.1k
Jiaping Liu China 62 7.5k 0.2× 5.7k 0.3× 2.8k 0.9× 2.4k 0.9× 376 0.2× 569 15.4k

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All Works

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Zhu, He, Jinping Ou, Dong‐Sheng Li, et al.. (2025). Bottom-up innovation for sustainable leakproof Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) pipe: Design method, ECC material, and pipe structure. Cement and Concrete Composites. 157. 105947–105947. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Duo, Bing Feng, Beata Jaworska, et al.. (2025). Pilot-scale validation of CO2 utilization for greener and tougher infrastructure through carbonation curing of bendable concrete. Journal of Cleaner Production. 491. 144845–144845. 3 indexed citations
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Qian, Shunzhi, et al.. (2025). Durable and sustainable overlay with ECC. Proceedings of the International Conference on Concrete Pavements. 1 indexed citations
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Huo, Yanlin, Xiaoyu Han, Chun-Ran Wu, et al.. (2025). Tensile behavior simulation of ECC/SHCC at subzero temperatures based on a fiber/interface combination constitutive model. Cement and Concrete Composites. 158. 105969–105969. 13 indexed citations
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Ye, Junhong, et al.. (2024). Printability region for 3D-printable engineered cementitious composites (3DP-ECC). Cement and Concrete Composites. 151. 105599–105599. 18 indexed citations
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Hou, Mengjun, Zhongrui Li, & Victor C. Li. (2024). Green and durable engineered cementitious composites (GD-ECC) with recycled PE fiber, desert sand, and carbonation curing: Mixture design, durability performance, and life-cycle analysis. Construction and Building Materials. 414. 134984–134984. 33 indexed citations
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Guo, Pengwei, et al.. (2024). Review on material specification, characterization, and quality control of engineered cementitious composite (ECC). Construction and Building Materials. 442. 137699–137699. 13 indexed citations
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Huang, Bo-Tao, Ji-Xiang Zhu, Ke-Fan Weng, Victor C. Li, & Jian‐Guo Dai. (2022). Ultra-high-strength engineered/strain-hardening cementitious composites (ECC/SHCC): Material design and effect of fiber hybridization. Cement and Concrete Composites. 129. 104464–104464. 216 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Ling-Yu, Bo-Tao Huang, Jian-Cong Lao, et al.. (2022). Tensile over-saturated cracking of Ultra-High-Strength Engineered Cementitious Composites (UHS-ECC) with artificial geopolymer aggregates. Cement and Concrete Composites. 136. 104896–104896. 128 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lepech, Michael D., et al.. (2010). Improving concrete for enhanced pipeline protection. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jian, Shunzhi Qian, Guang Yang, Klaas van Breugel, & Victor C. Li. (2009). Processing Sequence in the Production of Engineered Cementitious Composites. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Victor C., et al.. (2006). Behavior of ECC/Concrete Layered Repair System under Drying Shrinkage Conditions. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 39 indexed citations
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Li, Victor C. & Shuxin Wang. (2005). Suppression of Fracture Failure of Structures by Composite Design Based on Fracture Mechanics. Deep Blue (University of Michigan).
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Li, Victor C., et al.. (2002). PRACTICAL DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR PSEUDO STARIN HARDENING CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH SHORT RANDOM FIBERS : Part 2 Practical design Criteria to achieve saturated multiple cracking. Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ). 67(552). 13–21. 2 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Takashi & Victor C. Li. (1996). Uniaxial Cyclic Behavior of Discontinuous Fiber Reinforced Composites. 426–435. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Victor C.. (1995). New Construction Materials Proliferate in Japan. Civil engineering. 65(8). 38–41. 5 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Y. & Victor C. Li. (1990). The Use of Advanced Materials in the Construction Industry — Applicability of Ceramics to Construction. 705–803. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Victor C. & Z. P. Bažant. (1989). Fracture mechanics : application to concrete. 19 indexed citations

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