Weinong Chen
Materials Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
144
Citations
4,647
Est. group size
~2
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
31
Publishing since 1995
Weinong Chen's research focuses on how materials behave when subjected to very fast, high-force impacts, such as being struck at high speed or compressed extremely quickly. He uses specialized lab equipment (like the split-Hopkinson/Kolsky bar, a device for testing materials under rapid loading) and advanced X-ray imaging techniques to observe how composites, fibers, metals, and other materials crack, deform, or fail in real time under these extreme conditions. This work is relevant to designing safer structures, protective materials, and components that must withstand impacts or explosions.
Publication output was fairly steady at 6-8 papers per year from 2017 through 2022, then dropped sharply in 2023-2024 before showing a partial rebound in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Experimental Investigation on Dynamic Behavior of Ultra High Performance Composite Concrete with Kolsky Bar
River Publishers eBooks · 2025
- Study on Penetration Equation by Experimental Investigation on Penetration into Wax
River Publishers eBooks · 2025
- Kolsky Tension Bar for Samples with Very Low Strength
River Publishers eBooks · 2025
- Inertia Effects in High-Rate Compression Experiments of Soft Materials
River Publishers eBooks · 2025
- The split-Hopkinson (Kolsky) bar technique
Elsevier eBooks · 2024
- Contributors
Elsevier eBooks · 2024
- In-Situ X-Ray Imaging High Strain Rate Compression of Laminate Al-Graphene Composite and Mechanical Property Characterization
JOM · 2023
- Dynamic fracture of glass fiber-reinforced ductile polymer matrix composites and loading rate effect
Composites Part B Engineering · 2022
- Multiscale dynamic experiments on fiber-reinforced composites with damage assessment using high-speed synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast imaging
NDT & E International · 2022
- Characterization of failure of single carbon nanotube fibers under extreme transverse loading
Materials & Design · 2022
- Resolving the Martensitic Transformation in Q&P Steels In-Situ at Dynamic Strain Rates Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A · 2022
- Transverse Loading on Single High-Performance Fibers by Round-Head Indenters and the Fibers’ Failure Visualization
Fibers · 2022
- DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITES UNDER TRIAXIAL COMPRESSION
American Society for Composites 2022 · 2022
- Parametrically-upscaled continuum damage mechanics (PUCDM) model for multiscale damage evolution in bending experiments of glass-epoxy composites
Composites Part B Engineering · 2021
- High-speed synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast imaging for evaluating microscale damage mechanisms and tracking cracking behaviors inside cross-ply GFRCs
Composites Science and Technology · 2021
- Textile Research Journal×6
- Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing×4
- International Journal of Impact Engineering×4
- River Publishers eBooks×4
- Composites Part B Engineering×3
- Zherui Guo
Materials Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Amos Gilat
Materials Science · The Ohio State University
- Shane Paulson
Materials Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Dushyanth Sirivolu
Materials Science · The Ohio State University
- Weinong W. Chen
Materials Science · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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