| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Fracture characteristics of three metals subjected to various strains, strain rates, temperatures and pressures | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1985 | 4,645 |
| 2 | A finite element calculation of stress intensity factors by a modified crack closure integral | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1977 | 1,914 |
| 3 | Fatigue crack closure under cyclic tension | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1970 | 1,721 |
| 4 | An empirical stress-intensity factor equation for the surface crack | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1981 | 1,618 |
| 5 | Extended finite element method for cohesive crack growth | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2002 | 1,243 |
| 6 | An engineering solution for mesh size effects in the simulation of delamination using cohesive zone models | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2007 | 1,212 |
| 7 | Vibration of cracked structures: A state of the art review | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1996 | 964 |
| 8 | The cohesive zone model: advantages, limitations and challenges | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2002 | 896 |
| 9 | Prediction of non propagating cracks | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1979 | 874 |
| 10 | Epoxy nanocomposites – fracture and toughening mechanisms | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2006 | 711 |
| 11 | A description of micro- and macroscale damage of concrete structures | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1986 | 645 |
| 12 | Stress-intensity factors for a wide range of semi-elliptical surface cracks in finite-thickness plates | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1979 | 609 |
| 13 | Adhesion and debonding of multi-layer thin film structures | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1998 | 578 |
| 14 | A comparison of methods for calculating energy release rates | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1985 | 577 |
| 15 | Review of fracture toughness (G, K, J, CTOD, CTOA) testing and standardization | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2012 | 573 |
| 16 | On the finite element method in linear fracture mechanics | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1970 | 555 |
| 17 | Representative volume: Existence and size determination | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2007 | 537 |
| 18 | On the fatigue crack growth behavior in 316L stainless steel manufactured by selective laser melting | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2014 | 501 |
| 19 | Some basic problems in fracture mechanics and new concepts | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1973 | 481 |
| 20 | A continuum phase field model for fracture | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2010 | 466 |
| 21 | The scatter in KIC-results | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1984 | 465 |
| 22 | The effect of hydrogen on dislocation dynamics | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2001 | 465 |
| 23 | Damage measurements | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1987 | 458 |
| 24 | Crack tip and associated domain integrals from momentum and energy balance | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1987 | 454 |
| 25 | Initiation of fatigue cracks in commercial aluminium alloys and the subsequent propagation of very short cracks | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1975 | 452 |
| 26 | Crack propagation by element-free Galerkin methods | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1995 | 450 |
| 27 | Fracture simulations of concrete using lattice models: Computational aspects | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1997 | 448 |
| 28 | Constitutive modeling of void shearing effect in ductile fracture of porous materials | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2008 | 440 |
| 29 | On the influence of state of stress on ductile failure initiation in high strength steels | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1977 | 439 |
| 30 | The assessment of defects in structures of strain hardening material | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1984 | 421 |
| 31 | Fracture analyses using spring networks with random geometry | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1998 | 419 |
| 32 | An irreversible cohesive zone model for interface fatigue crack growth simulation | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2003 | 413 |
| 33 | Concrete fracture models: testing and practice | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2002 | 404 |
| 34 | Modelling bone tissue fracture and healing: a review | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2004 | 404 |
| 35 | The theory of critical distances | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2008 | 399 |
| 36 | Fatigue crack propagation from a crack inclined to the cyclic tensile axis | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1974 | 397 |
| 37 | Cohesive zone length in numerical simulations of composite delamination | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2008 | 397 |
| 38 | An anisotropic theory of continuum damage mechanics for ductile fracture | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1987 | 386 |
| 39 | A history of fatigue | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1996 | 377 |
| 40 | A new electric boundary condition of electric fracture mechanics and its applications | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1994 | 376 |
| 41 | Calculation of strain-energy release rates with higher order and singular finite elements | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1987 | 373 |
| 42 | Characteristics of dynamic brittle fracture captured with peridynamics | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2011 | 369 |
| 43 | Quasi-automatic simulation of crack propagation for 2D LEFM problems | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1996 | 368 |
| 44 | 3D lattice type fracture model for concrete | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2003 | 362 |
| 45 | The initiation of secondary cracks in compression | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2000 | 360 |
| 46 | Numerical modeling of hydraulic fracture problem in permeable medium using cohesive zone model | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2012 | 360 |
| 47 | Brittle fracture criterion for structures with sharp notches | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 1994 | 350 |
| 48 | The synergistic action and interplay of hydrogen embrittlement mechanisms in steels and iron: Localized plasticity and decohesion | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2019 | 344 |
| 49 | On the cut-off value of negative triaxiality for fracture | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2005 | 340 |
| 50 | Crack initiation, propagation and coalescence from frictional flaws in uniaxial compression | Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 2010 | 339 |
