Yang Wu

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yang Wu is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Wu has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 25 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 8 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang Wu's work include Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (36 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (31 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (30 papers). Yang Wu is often cited by papers focused on Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (36 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (31 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (30 papers). Yang Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Australia. Yang Wu's co-authors include Masayuki Hyodo, Jie Cui, Haruyuki Yamamoto, Yukio Nakata, Xinzhi Wang, Norimasa Yoshimoto, Shintaro Kajiyama, Neng Li, Koji Nakashima and Changqi Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Cement and Concrete Research and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yang Wu

80 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Experimental investigation on mechanical behavior and particle crushing of calcareous sand retrieved from South China Sea

2020 224 citations Yang Wu, Xinzhi Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Wu China	24	1.3k	478	410	314	224	86	2.0k
Houzhen Wei China	25	1.1k 0.8×	413 0.9×	251 0.6×	243 0.8×	289 1.3×	48	1.8k
Yi Pik Cheng United Kingdom	20	1.6k 1.2×	727 1.5×	235 0.6×	129 0.4×	621 2.8×	101	2.3k
C.F. Chiu China	21	1.3k 1.0×	182 0.4×	96 0.2×	264 0.8×	522 2.3×	47	1.6k
Kai Zhao China	25	648 0.5×	796 1.7×	166 0.4×	191 0.6×	218 1.0×	90	1.8k
Zhen Guo China	31	2.0k 1.5×	284 0.6×	111 0.3×	268 0.9×	193 0.9×	151	2.7k
John Stormont United States	20	1.1k 0.8×	272 0.6×	76 0.2×	456 1.5×	261 1.2×	108	1.6k
Sayuri Kimoto Japan	22	888 0.7×	479 1.0×	402 1.0×	274 0.9×	322 1.4×	69	1.5k
Jie Cui China	19	1.1k 0.8×	158 0.3×	93 0.2×	164 0.5×	129 0.6×	85	1.3k
Giovanna Biscontin United States	22	946 0.7×	195 0.4×	48 0.1×	336 1.1×	180 0.8×	105	1.7k
Hongling Ma China	35	640 0.5×	1.7k 3.6×	602 1.5×	488 1.6×	485 2.2×	128	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Wu

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All Works

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Guo, Weiqi, Yang Wu, Mingkun Jia, et al.. (2025). Micromechanics-based thermo-hydro-mechanical model for air-entrained porous materials subjected to freezing-thawing cycles. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 17(7). 4413–4428. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, et al.. (2025). Breakage and morphology of uniform and gap-graded calcareous sands during high-pressure triaxial shearing. Acta Geotechnica. 21(3). 1377–1392. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, et al.. (2024). Creep evaluation for fiber-reinforced composites with hybrid fibers: From quantifying fiber anchorage effect to homogenization model. Journal of Building Engineering. 98. 111204–111204. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jianfeng, Yang Wu, Junjie Liu, et al.. (2024). Acoustic emission evolution and fracture mechanism of rock for direct tensile failure. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 185. 105974–105974. 6 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, et al.. (2023). Multiscale creep model for concrete considering from C-S-H gel scale to mesoscale with ITZ and irregular-shaped aggregates. Cement and Concrete Composites. 143. 105254–105254. 26 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, Mingkun Jia, Xiaofan Gou, & Wenxiang Xu. (2023). Average Eshelby tensor of an arbitrarily shaped inclusion from convexity to non-convexity: Effective elastic properties of composites. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 269. 112183–112183. 14 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, et al.. (2023). Study of stress-strain relationship of hydraulic asphalt concrete at low to intermediate temperatures based on experimental data regression. Construction and Building Materials. 409. 134059–134059. 6 indexed citations

Guo, Weiqi, Fengjuan Wang, Yang Wu, Jinyang Jiang, & Wenxiang Xu. (2023). New Insights Into Freezing Behavior of Saturated and Air‐Entrained Porous Media via a Micromechanics‐Based Thermo‐Hydro‐Mechanical Model. Water Resources Research. 59(4). 15 indexed citations

Wu, Yang, Weiqi Guo, Mingkun Jia, Xiaofan Gou, & Wenxiang Xu. (2023). A novel method for depolarization tensor and average form of an arbitrarily shaped inclusion: Extension to different physical fields and their effective transport properties of composites. Composites Science and Technology. 242. 110221–110221. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Weiqi, Fengjuan Wang, Yang Wu, et al.. (2023). A non-equilibrium micromechanics-based thermo-hydro-mechanical model for freezing/thawing in saturated cementitious materials: From elasticity to elastic-plasticity. Cement and Concrete Research. 173. 107267–107267. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Yang & Dingyong He. (2022). High-Temperature Sintering Resistance of Novel Ndybzr2o7 Thermal Barrier Coating. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoyu, Jia Chen, Yang Wu, Liang Tang, & Xianzhang Ling. (2021). Predicting the Maximum Seismic Response of the Soil-Pile-Superstructure System Using Random Forests. Journal of Earthquake Engineering. 26(15). 8120–8141. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinxi, et al.. (2020). IRI Threshold Values Based on Riding Comfort. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B Pavements. 146(1). 4020001–4020001. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinzhi, et al.. (2020). Factors affecting particle breakage of calcareous soil retrieved from South China Sea. Geomechanics and Engineering. 22(2). 173. 9 indexed citations

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Gu, Meixiang, et al.. (2020). The stress and deformation of stone column-improved soft clay by discrete element modelling. European Journal of Environmental and Civil engineering. 26(4). 1544–1560. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yang, et al.. (2019). Three-dimensional finite element modelling and dynamic response analysis of track-embankment-ground system subjected to high-speed train moving loads. Geomechanics and Engineering. 19(3). 241–254. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Yang, Masayuki Hyodo, & Noritaka Aramaki. (2018). Undrained cyclic shear characteristics and crushing behaviour of silica sand. Geomechanics and Engineering. 14(1). 1–8. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Yang & Haruyuki Yamamoto. (2015). Numerical analysis on crushing stress of sand in constitutive model with particle crushing. Scientia Iranica. 22(5). 1755–1764.

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Wu, Yang. (2011). Nonlinear numerical analysis of super-long piles based on p-y curves. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Yang. (2010). Stress Corrosion Cracking of Nitrogen-containing Stainless Steel 316LN in High Temperature Water Environments. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 23(6). 677–677. 5 indexed citations

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