Thin-Walled Structures

Aims & Scope

Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.

Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls.

This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.

The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures.

Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application.

Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	6.6

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.625

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	134

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Performance of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubes under pure torsion

  Citation: 1121

  Authors: Lin-Hai, Guo-Huang, Zhong

• On the crashworthiness performance of thin-walled energy absorbers: Recent advances and future developments

  Citation: 602

  Authors: Ahmad, Mustafa, Abdul-Ghani

• Collapsible impact energy absorbers: an overview

  Citation: 530

  Authors: A.A.A

• Relative merits of single-cell, multi-cell and foam-filled thin-walled structures in energy absorption

  Citation: 498

  Authors: Weigang, Tomasz

• Energy absorption of multi-cell stub columns under axial compression

  Citation: 350

  Authors: Xiong, Hui

• New extruded multi-cell aluminum profile for maximum crash energy absorption and weight efficiency

  Citation: 341

  Authors: Heung-Soo

• Nonlinear free vibration of shear deformable sandwich beam with a functionally graded porous core

  Citation: 338

  Authors: Da, Sritawat, Jie

• Stability and design of stainless steel structures – Review and outlook

  Citation: 334

  Authors: Leroy

• Comparative analysis of energy absorption and deformations of thin walled tubes with various section geometries

  Citation: 323

  Authors: Ali, Jamal

• Theoretical prediction and numerical simulation of multi-cell square thin-walled structures

  Citation: 303

  Authors: Xiong, Gengdong, Hui

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