Dr. Samir Emam | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Teaching areas

Dynamics and Control, Mechanics of Materials and Machine Design, Vibrations

Research areas

Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibrations, Buckling and post-buckling of structures, Mechanics of composite structures, nano-mechanics, vibration energy harvesting.

Education

PhD, Engineering Mechanics / Nonlinear Vibrations, Virginia Tech, United States, 2002
MS, Mechanical Engineering / Computational Solid Mechanics, Zagazig University, 1996
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Zagazig University, 1991

Professional experience

Professor, Mechanical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2019 - Present
Associate Professor, Department Of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2017 - Present
Associate Professor, Department Of Mechanical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2012 - 2016
Assistant Professor, Department Of Mechanical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2006 - 2012
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Zagazig University, Egypt, 1992 - 2008
Consultant, SAM-Free Zone Company for supporting institutional effectiveness units, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2007 - 2008
Consultant, Thermal And Structural Subsystem Of Egypt-sat I, The National Authority of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt, 2004 - 2006
Assistant Professor, Department Of Mechanical Design & Production, Faculty Of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, 2003 - 2006
Visiting Scholar, Department Of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Tech, United States, 2005 - 2005
Postdoctoral Associate, Virginia Tech, VA, United States, 2003 - 2003
Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, VA, United States, 1999 - 2002

Memberships

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA., January 2014
Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers, October 1991

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 4919

Dr. Samir Emam

Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech, United States

Samir Emam's areas of expertise include nonlinear vibrations, mechanics of composite structures, buckling and post-buckling of elastic structures, vibration energy harvesting and nanoscale mechanics. Prior to joining AUS in Spring 2017, Dr. Emam taught mechanical engineering courses at Zagazig University, Egypt; UAE University, UAE; and Virginia Tech, USA, from 2003 to 2016. Dr. Emam is a reviewer for many international journals in his areas of expertise.

Publications

Sara Hijazi And Samir Emam. An investigation into the static configurations and snapthrough Response of clamped hybrid bistable symmetric laminates, Composite Structures, 25 May 2023
Sara Hijazi And Samir Emam. Static Configurations of Clamped Hybrid Bistable Symmetric Laminates, 26 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023
Samir Emam. A review on buckling and postbuckling of thin elastic beams, European Journal Of Mechanics-a/solids, 1 March 2022
Hooman Aminipour And Samir Emam. Snapthrough response of doubly curved laminated shells for pressure sensing applications, 1 March 2022
Samir Emam, Tarun Pherwani, Aravindh Anil And Aeman Mohamed. Parametric study on the influence of material properties and geometry on the bistability of composite laminates
Ehab Basta, Mehdi Ghommem And Samir Emam. Flutter control and mitigation of limit cycle oscillations in aircraft wings using distributed vibration absorbers, Nonlinear Dynamics, 1 November 2021
Samir Emam And Hooman Aminipour. Nonlinear Bending and Snapthrough Response of Doubly Curved Laminated Shells
Ehab Basta, Mehdi Ghommem And Samir Emam. Vibration suppression of nonlinear rotating metamaterial beams, Nonlinear Dynamics, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2020
Mohamed Shaat, Samir Emam, S Faroughi And U Javed. On postbuckling mode distortion and inversion of nanostructures due to surface roughness, International Journal Of Solids And Structures, 15 June 2020
Samir Emam. Generalized Lagrange’s equations for systems with general constraints and distributed parameters, Multibody System Dynamics, 1 June 2020
Mohamed Shaat, E Ghavanloo And Samir Emam. A Micromorphic Beam theory for Beams with elongated Microstructures, Scientific Reports, 14 May 2020
Ehab Basta, Mehdi Ghommem And Samir Emam. Vibration suppression and optimization of conserved-mass metamaterial beam, International Journal Of Non-linear Mechanics, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2020
Samir Emam And Daniel Inman. Cross-well dynamics of bistable cross-ply laminates, 2019
Samir Emam, Jared Hobeck And Daniel Inman. Experimental investigation into the nonlinear dynamics of a bistable laminate, Nonlinear Dynamics, 2019
Meghashyam Panyam, Mohammed Daqaq And Samir Emam. Exploiting the subharmonic parametric resonances of a buckled beam for vibratory energy harvesting, Meccanica, 2018
Samir Emam, M Eltaher, M Khater And W Abdalla. Postbuckling and Free Vibration of Multilayer Imperfect Nanobeams under a Pre-Stress Load, Applied Sciences, 2018
Samir Emam. Snapthrough and free vibration of bistable composite laminates using a simplified Rayleigh-Ritz model, Composite Structures, 2018
Ehab Basta, Mehdi Ghommem, Lotfi Romdhne, Samir Emam And Abdessattar Abdelkefi. Design, implementation, and performance analysis of miniature wind turbine, 2 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018
Samir Emam, Jared Hobeck And Daniel Inman. Experimental Study of Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesting of a Bistable Composite Laminate, 2017
Samir Emam, Meghashyam Panyam And Mohammed Daqaq. Exploiting the Subharmonic Parametric Resonance of a Bi-Stable Beam for Energy Harvesting, 2017
Farag Omar, Mohamed Selim And Samir Emam. Time and frequency analyses of dual-fuel engine block vibration, Fuel, 2017
Ma Eltaher, Me Khater And Samir Emam. A review on nonlocal elastic models for bending, buckling, vibrations, and wave propagation of nanoscale beams, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2016
Samir Emam. On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Buckled Beams for Energy Harvesting, 2015
Samir Emam And Daniel Inman. A review on bistable composite laminates for morphing and energy harvesting, Applied Mechanics Reviews, 2015
Samir Emam And Mostafa Abdalla. Subharmonic parametric resonance of simply supported buckled beams, Nonlinear Dynamics, 2015
Samir Emam. A general nonlocal nonlinear model for buckling of nanobeams, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013
Samir Emam. Approximate analytical solutions for the nonlinear free vibrations of composite beams in buckling, Composite Structures, 2013
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Non-linear response of buckled beams to 1: 1 and 3: 1 internal resonances, International Journal Of Non-linear Mechanics, 2013
Ma Eltaher, Samir Emam And Ff Mahmoud. Static and stability analysis of nonlocal functionally graded nanobeams, Composite Structures, 2013
Ma Eltaher, Samir Emam And Ff Mahmoud. Free vibration analysis of functionally graded size-dependent nanobeams, Applied Mathematics And Computation, 2012
Farag Omar, Kamal Moustafa And Samir Emam. Mathematical modeling of gearbox including defects with experimental verification, Journal Of Vibration And Control, 2012
Kamal Moustafa, Samir Emam And Yousef Haik. On identification of leaky pipeline parameters via Monte Carlo simulation, 2011
Samir Emam. Analysis of shear-deformable composite beams in postbuckling, Composite Structures, 2011
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Corrigendum to “Postbuckling and free vibrations of composite beams”[Compos. Struct. 88 (2009) 636--642], Composite Structures, 2010
Samir Emam. Dynamics of a flexible-hub geometrically nonlinear beam with a tip mass, Journal Of Vibration And Control, 2010
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Postbuckling and free vibrations of composite beams (vol 88, pg 636, 2009), Composite Structures, 2010
Samir Emam. Vibrations of a Flexible-Link Flexible-Base Robot Arm, 2009
Samir Emam And Ae Domiaty. A refined energy-based model for friction-stir welding, World Academy Of Science, Engineering And Technology, 2009
Samir Emam. A static and dynamic analysis of the postbuckling of geometrically imperfect composite beams, Composite Structures, 2009
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Postbuckling and free vibrations of composite beams, Composite Structures, 2009
Eihab Abdel-rahman, Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. A generalized model of electrically actuated, microbeam-based MEMS devices, 2008
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Nonlinear Response of a Buckled Beam to a Three-to-One Internal Resonance, 2008
Ali Nayfeh And Samir Emam. Exact solution and stability of postbuckling configurations of beams, Nonlinear Dynamics, 2008
Samir Emam, Mahmoud Khater And Emil Gad. A static and nonlinear dynamic analysis of resonant microbeams, 2007
Samir Emam. Vibrations of a Flexible-Link Flexible-Base Robot Arm, 2007
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. On the nonlinear dynamics of a buckled beam subjected to a primary-resonance excitation, Nonlinear Dynamics, 2004
Eihab Abdel-rahman, Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. A generalized model of electrically actuated, microbeam-based MEMS devices, 2003
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. An Investigation into the Global Dynamics of a Buckled Beam in the Case of a One-to-One Internal Resonance, 2003
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Nonlinear Response of a Buckled Beam to a Three-to-One Internal Resonance, 2003
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Nonlinear Vibration of a Buckled Beam to a Subharmonic Resonance, 2003
Ali Nayfeh, Samir Emam, Sergio Preidikman And Dt Mook. An exact solution for the natural frequencies of flexible beams undergoing overall motions, Modal Analysis, 2003
Samir Emam And Ali Nayfeh. Nonlinear dynamics of a clamped-clamped buckled beam, 2002
Samir Emam. A theoretical and experimental study of nonlinear dynamics of buckled beams, 2002
Ff Mahmoud, Ss Ali-eldin, Mm Hassan And Sa Emam. An incremental mathematical programming model for solving multi-phase frictional contact problems, Computers \& Structures, 1998

Conference Presentations

The First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference NODYCON 2019, The First International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference Nodycon 2019, 20 February 2019
Static and Dynamic Response of Bistable Laminates, 2 December 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, FRG21, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2024
Grant, FRG19-S-E99, American University of Sharjah
Sponsored Research, Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Bistable Composite Laminates, American University of Sharjah

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Research/Teaching Scholarship to Penn State University, biennial Fulbright commission, 1 June 2006

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