Yiren Sun

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yiren Sun is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiren Sun has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 22 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 20 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yiren Sun's work include Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (77 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (58 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (20 papers). Yiren Sun is often cited by papers focused on Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation (77 papers), Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring (58 papers) and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (20 papers). Yiren Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Yiren Sun's co-authors include Baoshan Huang, Hongren Gong, Jingyun Chen, Weiying Wang, Jingyun Chen, Xiang Shu, Cong Du, Hongren Gong, Mingyang Gong and Wei Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Construction and Building Materials and Composite Structures.

In The Last Decade

Yiren Sun

86 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Investigation of performance evolution in recycled asphalt mixtures: The impact of virgin and RAP binder blending

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Understanding the low-temperature fracture behavior of rejuvenated high viscosity modified asphalt utilizing a combined microstructure-component analysis 2025 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Mingjun Hu, (unknown), Yiren Sun, (unknown)	2
2	Insight into the salt damage mechanism to the asphalt-aggregate interface in recycled asphalt mixtures at different salt environments using molecular dynamics and DFT simulations 2024 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Yiren Sun, (unknown), Mingjun Hu, (unknown)	14
3	Mesomechanical modeling of asphalt concrete considering full aggregate size range and conjunctive shell mechanism of interface transition zones 2024 ·Powder Technology ·Xin Wei, Yiren Sun, Mingjun Hu, Feng Jiang, Jingyun Chen	4
4	3D identification and characterization of force chains in asphalt concrete based on continuum mesomechanics 2024 ·Computers & Structures ·Xin Wei, Yiren Sun, Hongren Gong, Yuhua Li, Jingyun Chen	8
5	Analysis of coupled thermo-mechanical response and damage behaviour of curved ramp bridge deck pavement using a 3D multiscale method 2024 ·Road Materials and Pavement Design ·Mingyang Gong, Yiren Sun, Jingyun Chen	9
6	Multiscale optimization on polymer-based rejuvenators for the efficient recycling of aged high-viscosity modified asphalt: Molecular dynamics simulation and experimental analysis 2024 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·Mingjun Hu, Daquan Sun, Bernhard Hofko, Yiren Sun, Johannes Mirwald, Lei Xu	19
7	Critical response analysis of asphalt pavement on concrete curved ramp bridge deck considering tire-bridge interaction 2024 ·International Journal of Pavement Engineering ·Mingyang Gong, Yiren Sun, Jingyun Chen	0
8	Determining appropriate level of detail of 3D aggregate model for accurate and efficient mesoscopic simulation of asphalt concrete 2024 ·Road Materials and Pavement Design ·Xin Wei, Yiren Sun, Hongren Gong, Jingyun Chen	2
9	Automated high-resolution asphalt pavement crack segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks with repeated hierarchical feature fusion 2024 ·International Journal of Pavement Engineering ·(unknown), Hongren Gong, Yiren Sun, Cong Lin, (unknown), (unknown)	2
10	A novel aging acceleration rate equation for accelerated weather aging test of high viscosity modified asphalt: Theoretical derivation and experimental correction 2023 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Mingjun Hu, Daquan Sun, Bin Li, (unknown), Yiren Sun	7
11	Investigation into Rheological Behavior of Warm-Mix Recycled Asphalt Binders with High Percentages of RAP Binder 2023 ·Materials ·Hui Xu, Yiren Sun, Jingyun Chen, Jiyang Li, Bowen Yu, (unknown), Yan Zhang, Bin Xu	12
12	Fatigue damage investigation on asphalt concrete under cyclic freeze–thaw using a combined energy and viscoelasticity method 2023 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Minda Ren, Hongren Gong, (unknown), Yiren Sun, Qing Zhang, (unknown)	3
13	Fast 3D Voronoi and Voxel–Based Mesostructure Modeling Method for Asphalt Concrete 2023 ·Journal of Engineering Mechanics ·Xin Wei, Yiren Sun, Hongren Gong, Jingyun Chen	9
14	A novel insight into the interface fracture between magnesium phosphate cement mortar and cement concrete 2023 ·International Journal of Pavement Engineering ·(unknown), Baofeng Pan, Changjun Zhou, Yiren Sun, (unknown)	6
15	Approach for accurately characterizing nonlinear viscoelastic and nonrecoverable properties of asphalt binders based on MSCR test 2023 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Yiren Sun, Bin Lv, Hongren Gong, Hui Xu, Weiying Wang, Bin Xu, Jingyun Chen	14
16	3D Multiscale Modeling of Asphalt Pavement Responses under Coupled Temperature–Stress Fields 2022 ·Journal of Engineering Mechanics ·Yiren Sun, Zhuang Zhang, Hongren Gong, Changjun Zhou, Jingyun Chen, Baoshan Huang	27
17	Investigating long-term performance of flexible pavement using Bayesian multilevel models 2022 ·Road Materials and Pavement Design ·(unknown), Hongren Gong, Yiren Sun, Jiachen Shi, Cong Lin, (unknown), (unknown)	6
18	Evaluation of Rejuvenated Aged-Asphalt Binder by Waste-Cooking Oil with Secondary Aging Considered 2022 ·Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering ·Shiao Yan, Changjun Zhou, Yiren Sun	28
19	Field performance evaluation of open-graded asphalt friction courses: A survival data analysis 2021 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Weimin Song, Hongren Gong, (unknown), Cong Lin, Yiren Sun, Hao Wu, Baoshan Huang	9
20	Mechanical response analysis of asphalt pavement on curved concrete bridge deck using a mesostructure-based multi-scale method 2021 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Mingyang Gong, Yiren Sun, Jingyun Chen	19

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