Zhengkai Wu

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Zhengkai Wu is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengkai Wu has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 14 papers in Automotive Engineering and 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhengkai Wu's work include Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (16 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (13 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (12 papers). Zhengkai Wu is often cited by papers focused on Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes (16 papers), Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (13 papers) and Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses (12 papers). Zhengkai Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Zhengkai Wu's co-authors include Shengchuan Wu, Philip J. Withers, Guozheng Kang, Wei Sun, Jianguang Bao, Weijian Qian, Xin Peng, Yanan Fu, Yue Hu and H.O. Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, The Journal of Physical Chemistry and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Zhengkai Wu

42 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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The effect of defect population on the anisotropic fatigue resistance of AlSi10Mg alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

2021 216 citations Zhengkai Wu, Shengchuan Wu et al. International Journal of Fatigue profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhengkai Wu China	17	1.0k	450	316	259	148	43	1.3k
Chaoqun Zhang China	18	1.2k 1.2×	416 0.9×	118 0.4×	190 0.7×	220 1.5×	47	1.4k
Shuhao Wang China	23	1.4k 1.4×	471 1.0×	143 0.5×	201 0.8×	281 1.9×	44	1.5k
Akash Gupta India	15	433 0.4×	217 0.5×	129 0.4×	226 0.9×	146 1.0×	53	1.0k
Guojiang Dong China	18	755 0.7×	145 0.3×	265 0.8×	189 0.7×	205 1.4×	62	988
Paschalis Charalampous Greece	19	576 0.6×	333 0.7×	298 0.9×	254 1.0×	39 0.3×	45	898
Paul Kah Finland	24	1.6k 1.6×	125 0.3×	271 0.9×	306 1.2×	245 1.7×	88	1.9k
Orion L. Kafka United States	18	1.1k 1.1×	647 1.4×	390 1.2×	300 1.2×	86 0.6×	43	1.6k
Jerzy Jóźwik Poland	20	716 0.7×	156 0.3×	211 0.7×	134 0.5×	96 0.6×	165	1.1k
Karsten Stahl Germany	24	2.5k 2.4×	295 0.7×	1.2k 3.7×	427 1.6×	68 0.5×	389	2.8k
Runsheng Li China	21	974 0.9×	481 1.1×	81 0.3×	170 0.7×	93 0.6×	51	1.3k

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Wu, Zhengkai, et al.. (2025). An effective approach for identifying fatigue-critical defects from X-ray 3D reconstruction: Example in L-PBF AlSil0Mg alloys. International Journal of Fatigue. 206. 109457–109457.

Wu, Zhengkai, Hiroyuki Toda, Hiro Fujihara, et al.. (2025). Long-term reliability of high-zinc Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys against stress corrosion cracking. Engineering Failure Analysis. 182. 110002–110002. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Ying, Weijian Qian, Liming Lei, et al.. (2025). Structural integrity issues of composite materials and structures in future transportation equipment. Composite Structures. 358. 118943–118943. 10 indexed citations

Ao, Ni, Zhengkai Wu, Gan‐Yun Huang, et al.. (2024). Experimental and numerical insights into fatigue crack propagation of railway component with gradient residual stress. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 303. 110111–110111. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Zhengkai, Shengchuan Wu, Jamie J. Kruzic, et al.. (2024). Critical damage events of 3D printed AlSi10Mg alloy via in situ synchrotron X-ray tomography. Acta Materialia. 282. 120464–120464. 33 indexed citations

Wu, Zhengkai, Shengchuan Wu, Liming Lei, et al.. (2023). Rotating bending fatigue mechanisms of L-PBF manufactured Ti-6Al-4V alloys using in situ X-ray tomography. International Journal of Fatigue. 176. 107876–107876. 14 indexed citations

Wu, Zhengkai, Shengchuan Wu, Weijian Qian, et al.. (2023). Structural integrity issues of additively manufactured railway components: Progress and challenges. Engineering Failure Analysis. 149. 107265–107265. 53 indexed citations

Wu, Zhengkai, Shengchuan Wu, Wentao He, et al.. (2023). X-ray tomography of failure behaviors of arc welded AA2219 joints under tensile and cyclic loading. Materials Characterization. 205. 113311–113311. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Zhengkai, et al.. (2023). Orbital eccentricity and inclination distribution of main-belt asteroids—The Statistical model revisited. Icarus. 404. 115650–115650. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhengkai, et al.. (2023). The role of internal defects on anisotropic tensile failure of L-PBF AlSi10Mg alloys. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 14681–14681. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhengkai, et al.. (2023). Energy Management of Sowing Unit for Extended-Range Electric Tractor Based on Improved CD-CS Fuzzy Rules. Agriculture. 13(7). 1303–1303. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Hang, Jiwang Zhang, Shengchuan Wu, et al.. (2022). Effects of micro-shot peening on the defect tolerance of Al-Si-0.6Mg alloy containing artificial defect. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 921. 166170–166170. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Shengchuan, Zhengkai Wu, Guozheng Kang, et al.. (2021). Research Progress on Multi-dimensional and Multi-scale High-throughput Characterization for Advanced Materials. Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 57(16). 37–37. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhengkai, Shengchuan Wu, Jianguang Bao, et al.. (2021). The effect of defect population on the anisotropic fatigue resistance of AlSi10Mg alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. International Journal of Fatigue. 151. 106317–106317. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bao, Jianguang, Zhengkai Wu, Shengchuan Wu, et al.. (2021). The role of defects on tensile deformation and fracture mechanisms of AM AlSi10Mg alloy at room temperature and 250 °C. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 261. 108215–108215. 21 indexed citations

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Hu, Yue, Shengchuan Wu, Zhengkai Wu, et al.. (2020). A new approach to correlate the defect population with the fatigue life of selective laser melted Ti-6Al-4V alloy. International Journal of Fatigue. 136. 105584–105584. 184 indexed citations

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Wu, Shengchuan, et al.. (2020). Defect Tolerance Assessment Method of Fusion Welded Medium and High Strength Al Alloy Joints. Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 56(8). 46–46. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, et al.. (2019). 基于同步辐射 X 射线成像的选区激光熔化 Ti-6Al-4V 合金缺陷致疲劳行为. Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 55(7). 811–820. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qilai, Zhengkai Wu, Tianyi Tan, et al.. (2018). Stable actively Q-switched single-frequency fiber laser at 15 μm based on self-injecting polarization modulation. Optics Express. 26(13). 17000–17000. 13 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhengkai, et al.. (2016). Multiple-Implementation Testing of Supervised Learning Software. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 384–391. 24 indexed citations

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