Research
Research Projects
This smart bolt is capable of monitoring the variation of its axial tension. The built-in board sends wireless alarms to build the health map of the bolts within the network at any time in both ways communications.
Designed and built in-house with a resolution of 1 nm/axis, angular error less than 10 secarc and spindle speed upto 75,000 rpm. High machining autonomy using PowerMill and embedded camera
Wireless dynamometer to measure small cutting forces in 5 directions for high speed micro-machining desktop machines.
Materials with embedded sensors e.g.fiber optics, to sense external effects and react if necessary to move back to proper shape or conditions
Manipulation at nanoscale with robotics arms and NC nanomachining equiped with in-process inspection using AFM
Research interests
- Precision Machine Design
- Instrumentation and smart systems
- Manufacturing: Micromachining at high speed
- Functional and Technology Surfaces
- Contact Mechanics for pre-rolling: Adhesion, slippage, resistance modeling/simulation and experimental systems
- Smart Materials with embedded sensing and actuation
- Nanoscale manipulation
Funding and Research grants
- All projects are funded through NSTIP, KFUPM or International Collaborations
- Research Opportunities:
- If you are interested to work in any of the projects and you are highly motivated, please contact me by email smekid@kfupm.edu.sa
International Boards
- Appointed Independent Expert for Research Executive Agency (European Union) for Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (FP7)
- Editorial Board Member of Modern Mechanical Engineering Journal, SCIRP Publisher.
- Expert EU Evaluator for International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany, 2010).
- Expert EU Evaluator (10/2010) for the Ministry of science and technological development: Project evaluation 2011-2014.
- Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nanotechnology (CEMMNT) in the UK since June 2007.
- Member of the Editorial Board of Sensors and Transducers Journal ISSN 1726- 5479-IFSA since 2005.
- European Evaluator for INTAS (2006)
- Research Council Peer Reviewer –Scotland (2004)