| Structural basis for the fracture toughness of the shell of the conch Strombus gigas S Kamat, X Su, R Ballarini, AH Heuer Nature 405 (6790), 1036-1040, 2000 | 794 | 2000 |
| Coupled quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical modeling of the fracture of defective carbon nanotubes and graphene sheets R Khare, SL Mielke, JT Paci, S Zhang, R Ballarini, GC Schatz, ... Physical review B 75 (7), 075412, 2007 | 396 | 2007 |
| Stress-strain experiments on individual collagen fibrils ZL Shen, MR Dodge, H Kahn, R Ballarini, SJ Eppell Biophysical journal 95 (8), 3956-3963, 2008 | 395 | 2008 |
| Fracture toughness of polysilicon MEMS devices H Kahn, N Tayebi, R Ballarini, RL Mullen, AH Heuer Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 82 (1-3), 274-280, 2000 | 393 | 2000 |
| Nano measurements with micro-devices: mechanical properties of hydrated collagen fibrils SJ Eppell, BN Smith, H Kahn, R Ballarini Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3 (6), 117-121, 2006 | 358 | 2006 |
| Brittle‐to‐ductile transition in uniaxial compression of silicon pillars at room temperature F Östlund, K Rzepiejewska‐Malyska, K Leifer, LM Hale, Y Tang, ... Advanced Functional Materials 19 (15), 2439-2444, 2009 | 325 | 2009 |
| Viscoelastic properties of isolated collagen fibrils ZL Shen, H Kahn, R Ballarini, SJ Eppell Biophysical journal 100 (12), 3008-3015, 2011 | 319 | 2011 |
| Fatigue failure in polysilicon not due to simple stress corrosion cracking H Kahn, R Ballarini, JJ Bellante, AH Heuer Science 298 (5596), 1215-1218, 2002 | 200 | 2002 |
| Electrostatically actuated failure of microfabricated polysilicon fracture mechanics specimens H Kahn, R Ballarini, RL Mullen, AH Heuer Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical …, 1999 | 197 | 1999 |
| Effect of rim thickness on gear crack propagation path DG Lewicki, R Ballarini | 187 | 1997 |
| Fracture mechanisms of the Strombus gigas conch shell: implications for the design of brittle laminates LT Kuhn-Spearing, H Kessler, E Chateau, R Ballarini, AH Heuer, ... Journal of Materials Science 31, 6583-6594, 1996 | 159 | 1996 |
| Deformation micromechanisms of collagen fibrils under uniaxial tension Y Tang, R Ballarini, MJ Buehler, SJ Eppell Journal of The Royal Society Interface 7 (46), 839-850, 2010 | 143 | 2010 |
| The fracture toughness of polysilicon microdevices: a first report R Ballarini, RL Mullen, Y Yin, H Kahn, S Stemmer, AH Heuer Journal of Materials Research 12 (4), 915-922, 1997 | 137 | 1997 |
| Scale effects for strength, ductility, and toughness in “brittle” materials WW Gerberich, J Michler, WM Mook, R Ghisleni, F Östlund, DD Stauffer, ... Journal of Materials Research 24 (3), 898-906, 2009 | 125 | 2009 |
| Monte Carlo simulation of effective elastic constants of polycrystalline thin films RL Mullen, R Ballarini, Y Yin, AH Heuer Acta Materialia 45 (6), 2247-2255, 1997 | 124 | 1997 |
| Fracture mechanisms of the Strombus gigas conch shell: II-micromechanics analyses of multiple cracking and large-scale crack bridging S Kamat, H Kessler, R Ballarini, M Nassirou, AH Heuer Acta Materialia 52 (8), 2395-2406, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| Dynamic fatigue of silicon H Kahn, R Ballarini, AH Heuer Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 8 (1), 71-76, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| Crack growth in cement-based composites R Ballarini, SP Shah, LM Keer Engineering Fracture Mechanics 20 (3), 433-445, 1984 | 122 | 1984 |
| Interface toughness of carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy composites Y Ganesan, C Peng, Y Lu, PE Loya, P Moloney, E Barrera, BI Yakobson, ... ACS applied materials & interfaces 3 (2), 129-134, 2011 | 114 | 2011 |
| Failure characteristics of short anchor bolts embedded in a brittle material R Ballarini, SP Shah, LM Keer Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical …, 1986 | 107 | 1986 |
