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Professor Samir A. Emam

Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Sharjah
Formerly:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Department of Mechanical Design and Production, Zagazig University, Egypt

Summary:
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.

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. Samir A. Emam):
Samir A. Emam, “Snapthrough and free vibration of bistable composite laminates using a simplified Rayleigh-Ritz model”, Composite Structures, Vol. 206, pp 403-414, 15 December 2018
Meghashyam Panyam, Mohammed F. Daqaq and Samir A. Emam, “Exploiting the subharmonic parametric resonances of a buckled beam for vibratory energy harvesting”, Meccanica, Vol. 53, No. 14, pp 3545-3564, November 2018
Mohamed A. Attia and Samir A. Emam, “Electrostatic nonlinear bending, buckling and free vibration of viscoelastic microbeams based on the modified couple stress theory”, Acta Mechanica, Vol. 220, No. 8, pp 3235-3255, August 2018
Emam, S.A., Eltaher, M.A., Khater, M.E. and Abdalla, W.S. (2018), “Postbuckling and Free Vibration of Multilayer Imperfect Nanobeams under a Pre-Stress Load”, Appl. Sci., 8(11), 2238
Samir Emam and M.A. Eltaher, Buckling and postbuckling of composite beams in hygrothermal environments, Composite Structures 152, 665–675, 2016.
M. A. Khorshidi, M. Shariati, Samir A. Emam, Postbuckling of functionally graded nanobeams based on modified couple stress theory under general beam theory, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 110, 160-169, 2016.
M. A. Eltaher, M.E. Khater, and Samir A. Emam, A review on nonlocal elastic models for bending, buckling, vibrations, and wave propagation of nanoscale beams, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 40, (4-5), 4109–4128, 2016.
Samir A. Emam and Daniel J. Inman, A review on bistable composite laminates for morphing and energy harvesting, Applied Mechanics Reviews, 67(6), 060803, 2015.
Samir A. Emam and Mostafa Abdalla, Subharmonic parametric resonance of simply supported buckled beams, Nonlinear Dynamics, 79, 1443–1456, 2015.
Samir A. Emam, A general nonlocal nonlinear model for buckling of nanobeams, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 37, 6929-6939, 2013.
Samir A. Emam and Ali H. Nayfeh, Nonlinear response of buckled beams to 1:1 and 3:1 internal resonances, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 52, 12-25, 2013.
Samir A. Emam, Approximate analytical solutions for the nonlinear free vibrations of composite beams in buckling, Composite Structures, 100, 186–194, 2013.
M.A. Eltaher, Samir A. Emam, F.F. Mahmoud, Static and stability analysis of nonlocal functionally graded nanobeams, Composite Structures, 96, 82-88, 2013.
M.A. Eltaher, Samir A. Emam, F.F. Mahmoud, Free vibration analysis of functionally graded size-dependent nanobeams, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 218, 7406–7420, 2012.
Samir A. Emam, Analysis of shear-deformable composite beams in postbuckling, composite structures, 94, 24-30, 2011.
Samir A. Emam, Dynamics of a flexible-hub geometrically nonlinear beam with a tip mass, Journal of Vibration and Control, 16(13), 1989-2000, 2010.
Samir A. Emam, A static and dynamic analysis of the postbuckling of geometrically imperfect composite beams, Composite Structures, 90, 247-253, 2009.
Samir A. Emam and Ali H. Nayfeh, Postbuckling and free vibrations of composite beams, Composite Structures, 88, 636-642, 2009.

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