Catherine O’Sullivan

12.7k citations
191 papers · 7.7k · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Papers in

    • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics 100
    • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures 57
    • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization 33
    • Soil and Unsaturated Flow 29
    • Dam Engineering and Safety 16
    • Granular flow and fluidized beds 65

Catherine O’Sullivan

181 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Catherine O’Sullivan's Hit Papers

Fundamentals of Soil Behavior 2025 · 58 citations
580+5+10Years since publication100200300

Peers

Catherine O’Sullivan
Comparison fields: 5 of 132
  • Civil and Structural Engineering 5.6k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2.6k
  • Computational Mechanics 2.5k
  • Mechanics of Materials 1.7k
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 443
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Catherine O’Sullivan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Particulate Discrete Element Modelling
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2011364
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The influence of particle characteristics on the behaviour of coarse grained soils
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2010353
3
Particulate Discrete Element Modelling: A Geomechanics Perspective
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2011319
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Analysis of an Image-Based Method to Quantify the Size and Shape of Sand Particles
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2012302
5 2004229
6 2012228
7 2014205
8 2011193
9 2014175
10 2006166
11 2012145
12 2012137
13 2013125
14 2009124
15 2018123
16 2016122
17 2011110
18 2012107
19 2016106
20 2008103

About Catherine O’Sullivan

Catherine O’Sullivan is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, having authored 191 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics (100 papers), Granular flow and fluidized beds (65 papers), Landslides and related hazards (60 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures (57 papers), Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization (33 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (29 papers), Rock Mechanics and Modeling (17 papers) and Dam Engineering and Safety (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Civil and Structural Engineering (5.6k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (2.6k citations), Computational Mechanics (2.5k citations), Mechanics of Materials (1.7k citations) and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (443 citations). Catherine O’Sullivan has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Hong Kong. Frequent co-authors include Kevin J. Hanley, M. R. Coop, I. Cavarretta, Thomas Shire, Liang Cui, Xin Huang, Jonathan D. Bray, J. Fonseca, M. Otsubo and Peter Lee. Their work appears in journals such as Géotechnique, Granular Matter, Computers and Geotechnics, SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS and Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

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