William Prager

16.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
130 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

William Prager is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Prager has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 39 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 39 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Prager's work include Structural Analysis and Optimization (32 papers), Topology Optimization in Engineering (24 papers) and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (15 papers). William Prager is often cited by papers focused on Structural Analysis and Optimization (32 papers), Topology Optimization in Engineering (24 papers) and Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization (15 papers). William Prager collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. William Prager's co-authors include D. C. Drucker, Yu. N. Rabotnov, F. A. Leckie, Harvey J. Greenberg, Bruno A. Boley, J. H. Weiner, P. G. Hodge, R. T. Shield, W. Oettli and Kurt H. Gerstle and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Physics and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

William Prager

124 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

Soil mechanics and plastic analysis or limit design 1952 2026 1976 2001 1952 1970 1961 1956 1952 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k

Peers

William Prager
Comparison fields: 5 of 143
  • Mechanics of Materials 5.1k
  • Civil and Structural Engineering 4.3k
  • Mechanical Engineering 3.3k
  • Materials Chemistry 1.7k
  • Biomedical Engineering 1.0k
Replace D. C. Drucker with:
D. C. Drucker United States
D. R. J. Owen United Kingdom
F. Erdoğan United States
Edward L. Wilson United States
Bernard Budiansky United States
G. Maier Italy
O.C. Zienkiewicz United Kingdom
John Argyris Germany
R. W. Lewis United Kingdom
D.E. Beskos Greece
D. C. Drucker United States View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by William Prager

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Prager

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Prager

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Mechanics of geomaterials : rocks, concretes, soils : proceedings of IUTAM William Prager Symposium held at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, during September 11-15, 1983
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2 12
3 21
4 3
5 11
6 46
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Theory of perfectly plastic solids breakdown →
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8 14
9 2
10 1
11 43
12 7
13 113
14 63
15 1
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On limiting states of deformation
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17 20
18 2
19 14
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Discontinuous Fields of Plastic Stress and Flow
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