LabCompass

Peng Hou

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2001
Rock Mechanics and ModelingHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir AnalysisCoal Properties and UtilizationDrilling and Well EngineeringHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Publications

121

Citations

2,798

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

26

Publishing since 2001

Research summary
AI-generated

Peng Hou works in rock mechanics and geo-engineering, focusing on how rocks and coal behave and fracture under extreme conditions such as heating, freezing with liquid nitrogen, and gas or hydraulic fracturing. This research is relevant to applications like coalbed methane extraction, underground mining safety (e.g., predicting rockburst events), CO2 storage, and enhanced geothermal or tunneling engineering. The work often combines laboratory experiments, computed tomography imaging, numerical simulation, and increasingly machine learning tools to study rock and coal damage at multiple scales.

Rock and coal fracture mechanicsThermal (heating/freezing) treatment of rocks for fracturingCoalbed methane and permeability enhancementRockburst and mining hazard prediction using machine learningMultiscale/numerical modeling of geomaterials

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade but shows a recent upward trend, rising from single digits in 2019-2020 to a peak of 21 publications in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 12.0/year recently
2017: 13 publications172018: 8 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 15 publications212022: 15 publications222023: 9 publications232024: 13 publications242025: 21 publications21252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering×7
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering×7
  • Thermal Science×7
  • Fractals×6
  • International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences×5
Similar researchers
By research-topic overlap

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

Claim or correct this profile