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 Dr. Hawwa, Muhammad

Professor

Director, Mechatronics Lab

Contact Information

Office Bldg-63 Room-311

Phone 966-13-860 4659
Fax 966-13-860 2949 (ME Dept)
Email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Websites Personal Page

Education

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Yarmouk University, Jordan.

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Yarmouk University, Jordan.

Courses Taught

ME 201            Dynamics
ME 308            Machine Design
ME 482            Mechanical Vibration
ME 444            Mechatronics
ME 501            Continuum Mechanics
ME 553            Advanced Vibrations
ME 554            Elasticity
ME 564            Noise and Vibration Control
ME 560            Smart Materials and Structures

Research Areas

Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

Dynamics and Vibration Control.
Mechatronics: Actuation and Sensing, Robotic Mechanisms.

Publications

Mechatronics: Actuators and Sensors 

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Nietner L.F., Nill, S.T., Hardt, D.E., Hawwa, M.A., Al-Qahtani, H.M. -US Patent 9,678,011, FLUORESCENT CONTACT IMAGING FOR IN-PROCESS PRINT SENSING
Patent: June 13, 2017.
Hawwa M.A., and Baroudi U. -US Patent 9,228,919, SYSTEM FOR LEAK DETECTION IN PIPELINES BY OPTICAL MEANS. Date of Patent: September 20, 2016.
Hawwa M.A., Youcef-Toumi, K., and Al-Qahtani, H.M. -US Patent 9,046,427, SYSTEM FOR DUAL PRESSURE SENSING. Date of Patent: June 2, 2015.
Hawwa M.A., and Al-Qahtani, H.M. -US Patent 9,188,502, PIPELINE LEAK DETECTOR. Date of Patent: November 17, 2015.
Hawwa M.A. and Youcef-Toumi, K. -US Patent 8,783,297, ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR PIPELINE REHABILITATION. Date of Patent: July 22, 2014. 
Yilbas, B.S., Hawwa, M.A. and Shuja, S.Z. -US Patent 8,546,724, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LASER CUTTING THROUGH SURFACE
MONITORING. Date of Patent: October 1, 2013. 
Ben-Mansour, R. and Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 7,392,710, FLOW METER PROBE WITH FORCE SENSORS. Date of Patent: July 1, 2008.
Niu, Y., Fanslau, E.B., and Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,961,221, PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS WITH SUBSTANTIALLY FIXED AXIS OF ROTATION AND MA
STROKE. Date of Patent: November 1, 2005.
Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,757,140, ELECTROSTATIC MICROELECTROMECHANICAL (MEMS) MICROACTUATOR FOR PRECISE READ/WRITE HEAD POSITIONING
Patent: June 29, 2004.
Hawwa, M.A. and Fanslau, E.B. -US Patent 6,807,030, ENCLOSED PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATORS COUPLED BETWEEN HEAD AND SUSPENSION. Date o
October 19, 2004.
Hawwa, M.A. and Bozorgi, J. -US Patents 6,310,750; 6,404,600; 6,421,211; 6,512,659, DISK DRIVE ACTUATOR ARM WITH MICROACTUATED READ/WRIT
POSITIONING. Date of Patents: October 30, 2001; June 11, 2002; July 16, 2002; January 28, 2003.
Mohajerani, K. et al., Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,298,545, METHOD OF MAKING AN ACTUATOR ARM INTEGRATED PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATOR.  Date o
October 9, 2001.
Hawwa, M.A. et al. -US Patent 6,108,175, BIMORPH PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATOR HEAD AND FLEXURE ASSEMBLY. Date of Patent: August 22, 2000.
Mohajerani, K. et al., Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,052,251, ACTUATOR ARM INTEGRATED PIEZOELECTRIC MICROACTUATOR. Date of Patent: April 18, 2000.
Fard, A. et al., Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,025,975, E-BLOCK HEAD STACK MICROACTUATOR ASSEMBLY. Date of Patent: February 15, 2000. 

Mechatronics: Robotic Mechanisms   

Horoub, M.M., Hasan, M., and Hawwa, M.A., "Workspace analysis of a Gough-Stewart type cable marine platform subjected to harmonic water waves," Me
and Machine Theory 120, February 2018, pp. 314-325.
Horoub, M.M. and Hawwa, M.A., "Analysis of a Spar Platform with Various Mooring System Configurations under the Influence of Water Waves," Internationa
of Offshore and Polar Engineering 27(3), June 2017, pp. 283-292.
Horoub M., Hassan, M., Hawwa M.A., "Dynamic Analysis of a Floating Cable-driven Platform for Marine Applications," Proceedings of the 3rd International Co
on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Prague, Czech Republic, Paper No. 153, August 14-15, 2014.
Horoub M., Hassan, M., Hawwa M.A., "Workspace Analysis of a Floating Cable-Driven Platform for Marine Applications," Proceedings of the International Co
on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Volume: Paper No. 170, August 2013.
Isayed, B. M. and Hawwa, M.A., "A nonlinear PID Control Scheme for hard disk drive Servo systems," The Proceedings of the 15th Mediterranean Confe
Control and Automation, Athens – Greece, pp. T16-014, 2007.
Hawwa, M.A. and Masoud A.A., "A nonlinear PID Servo Controller for computer hard disk drives," The Proceedings of the 9th International IEEE Work
Advanced Motion Control, Istanbul - Turkey, pp. 672-676, 2006.
  Hawwa, M.A., Fanslau, E.B. and Young, K. -US Patent 6,704,158, SHEAR MODE MULTILAYERED MICRO-ACTUATOR FOR DUAL-STAGE SERVO CONTROLLERS
DRIVES. Date of Patent: March 9, 2004.
Young, K., Fanslau, E.B. and Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,376,964, COLLOCATED ROTATING FLEXURE MICROACTUATOR FOR DUAL-STAGE SERVO IN DISK DRIVES
Patent: April 23, 2002.
Bozorgi, J., Hawwa, M.A., Guo, W., and Yan, Y., "Performance requirements of micro-actuated suspensions in hard disk drives," Journal of Information Sto
Processing Systems (currently, Microsystem Technologies) 2, pp. 293-302, 2000.

Dynamics and Vibration Control

Alshaqaq, M. and Hawwa, M.A., "Nonlinear behavior of a vibrating axially moving small-size beam under an electrostatic force," Journal of Applied Mathem
Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (ZAMM), 100(6), pp. 1-21, May 2020. DOI: 10.1002/zamm.201900104.
Hawwa, M.A., Ali, S., Hardt, D.E., "Influence of roll-to-roll system's dynamics on axially moving web vibration," Journal of Vibroengineering, 21(3), pp. 556-5
2019. DOI https://doi.org/10.21595/jve.2018.19872. 
Ali, S. Hawwa, M.A., Hardt, D.E., "Vibration suppression of an axially moving web in a multi-span roll-to-roll microcontact printing system," Journal of
Engineering & Technologies, https: doi.org/10.1007/s42417-018-0047-y, November 2, 2018.
Mustafa, A.M., Hawwa, M.A., and Hardt, D.E., "Vibration of an Axially Moving Beam Supported by a Slightly Curved Elastic Foundation," Journal of Vibra
Control, doi/0.1177/1077546317717886, July 2017.  
Ouakad, H., Al-Qahtani, H.M, and Hawwa, M.A., "Influence of squeeze-film damping on the dynamic behavior of a curved micro-beam," Advances in Me
Engineering 8(6), pp. 1-8, June 2016.
Hawwa, M.A., Y.N. Al-Nassar and H.M. Al-Qahtani -US Patent 8,134,279, PIEZOELECTRIC DAMPING DEVICE. Date of Patent: March 13, 2012.
Hawwa, M.A. and Al-Qahtani, H.M., "Nonlinear oscillations of a double-walled carbon nanotube," Computational Materials Science 48(1), pp. 140-143, March 2

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Mayoof, F.N. and Hawwa, M.A., "Chaotic behavior of a curved carbon nanotube under harmonic excitation," Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 42(3), pp. 18
November 2009.
Hawwa, M.A., Bozorgi, J., and Menon, A.K. -US Patents 6,437,945; 6,665,146; 6,717,713; 6,856,489, AIRFLOW ASSISTED RAMP LOADING AND UNLOADING OF SL
HARD DISK DRIVES. Date of Patents: August 20, 2002; December 16, 2003; April 6, 2004; February 15, 2005.
Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,807,332, PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATED OPTICAL SWITCH. Date of Patent: October 19, 2004.
Hawwa, M.A. and Menon, A.K. -US Patent 6,515,791, ACTIVE REFLECTION AND ANTI-REFLECTION OPTICAL SWITCH. Date of Patent: February 4, 2003. 
Sampietro, J. et al., Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,362,933, PIEZOELECTRIC HEAD LOADING AND UNLOADING DEVICE FOR RIGID DISC DRIVES. Date of Patent: M
2002.
Hawwa, M.A. and Bozorgi, J. -US Patent 6,310,746, PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION DAMPING FOR DISK DRIVES. Date of Patent: October 30, 2001.
Hawwa, M.A., "Vibration isolation of machine foundations by periodic trenches," the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 124(4), pp. 422-427, April 1998.
Hawwa, M.A. and Brasil, R.M., "Vibration confinement in trusses," the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 122(3), pp. 286-290, March 1996.
Brasil, R.M. and Hawwa, M.A., "The localization of vibration modes in nearly periodic trusses," Proceedings of IV Symposium on Dynamic Problems of Mecha
Paulo - Brazil, pp. 142-145, 1995.
Nayfeh, A.H. and Hawwa, M.A., "Vibration and wave propagation characteristics of multi-segmented elastic beams," Proceedings of the 8th Internation
Analysis Conference, Kissimmee - FL, Vol. I, pp. 397-402, 1990.

Acoustics

Makid, S., Hawwa, M.A., Liu, Z. -US Patents 9,728,177; 10,062,369, acoustic resonator assembly having variable degrees of freedom. Date of Patents: August
August 28, 2018.
Hawwa, M.A., "Asymptotic wave speed estimation in weakly undulated ducts carrying mean flow," Journal of Sound and Vibration 357, pp. 245-252, November
Hawwa, M.A., "Sound Propagation in a Duct with Wall Corrugations Having Square-Wave Profiles," Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2015, Article ID 5
pages, July 2015.
Al-Qahtani, H.M. and Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 8,539,820, Acoustic Leak Detection System and Method with Environmental Noise Isolation. Date of Patent: Se
24, 2013.
Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 8,479,879, Expandable Chamber Acoustic Silencer. Date of Patent: July 9, 2013.
Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 8,418,804, MULTIPLE HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS. Date of Patent: April 16, 2013. 
Hawwa, M.A., "Acoustic wave blocking in a duct with a chirped periodic wall," Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering 29(1C), pp. 113-124, June 2004.   
Hawwa, M.A., "Noise control in ducts by means of wall periodicity," Proceedings of the 10th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Manchester - England, AIA
AIAA-2004-3035. 2004.  
Sampietro, J. et al., Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,157,116, ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLATION IN DISC DRIVES.   Date of Patent: December 5, 2000.
Hawwa, M.A., "Waveguides with periodic undulations inspired by DSP windowing," Journal of Sound and Vibration 209(4), pp. 699-706, January 1998.
Hawwa, M.A., "Acoustic mode coupling in waveguides involving two periodicities," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(1), pp. 137-142, July 199
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "Acoustic radiation from multi-span baffled panels," the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 119(1), pp. 80-84, January 199
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "Control of structure-borne sound using periodically varying rigidity," DE-Vol. 84-2 ASME, Boston - MA, pp. 307-314, 1995.
Nayfeh, A.H. and Hawwa, M.A., "The effect of mode localization on structure-borne sound," AIAA-94-1682-CP, Hilton Head - NC, pp. 114-122, 1994.

Ultrasonics 

Hawwa M.A., and Baroudi U. -US Patent 9,448,092, CLAMP-ON ULTRASONIC FLUID FLOW METER SYSTEM. Date of Patent: September 20, 2016.
Al-Nassar, Y. N. and Hawwa, M.A., "SH wave scattering at a broken tapered end of an elastic plate," ACTA Acustica United with Acustica 99(6), pp.
November/December 2013.
Asfar, O.R., Hawwa, M.A., M. Bavencoffe, B. Morvan, and J-L. Izbicki, "A multiple-scales perturbation approach to mode coupling in periodic plates," IEEE Tran
on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 60(2), pp. 395-401, February 2013.
Asfar, O.R., Bataineh, M.H., and Hawwa, M.A., "Ultrasonic waveguide with square wave surface grating," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelect
Frequency Control 57(8), pp. 1797-1803, August 2010.
Hawwa, M.A., "Ultrasonic wave transmission in periodically undulated elastic plates," IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
1743-1747, October 2005.   
Hawwa, M.A., "Ultrasonic mode coupling in waveguides involving two periodicities," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102(1), pp. 137-142, July 1
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "Flexural wave propagation in a fluid-loaded elastic plate with periodically varying rigidity," the ASME Journal of Vibration and A
119(3), pp. 415-419, July 1997. 
Hawwa, M.A., "Reflection of flexural waves in geometrically periodic beams," Journal of Sound and Vibration 199(3), pp. 453-461, January 1997.
Hawwa, M.A. and Asfar, O.R., "Mechanical-wave filtering in a periodically corrugated elastic plate," the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 18, pp. 16-20
1996.
Asfar, O.R. and Hawwa, M.A., "Filtering of Rayleigh surface waves by means of periodic corrugations," the Journal of Vibration and Control 1 (1), pp. 5-14, Marc
Hawwa, M.A., "SH-wave interaction in a harmonically inhomogeneous elastic plate," the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 62(1), pp. 174-177, March 1995.

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Brasil, R.M. and Hawwa, M.A., "Buckling mode localization in trusses," Proceedings of the 4th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics PACAM IV, Buen
Argentina, Vol. 1, pp. 393-398, 1995.
Hawwa, M.A. and Asfar, O.R., "Coupled-mode analysis of Love waves in a filter film with periodically corrugated surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Ult
Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 41(1), pp. 13-18, January 1994.
Nayfeh, A.H. and Hawwa, M.A., "Use of mode-localization in passive control of structural buckling," the AIAA Journal 32(10), pp. 2131-2133, October 1994.
Nayfeh, A.H. and Hawwa, M.A., "Buckling mode localization of multi-span columns," AIAA Paper, AIAA-94-1584-CP, Hilton Head - NC, pp. 2117-2123, 1994.
Asfar, O.R. and Hawwa, M.A., "Torsional mode coupling and filtering in a composite waveguide with multi-periodic interface corrugations," The Journ
Acoustical Society of America 93(5), pp. 2468-2473, May 1993.

Thermoelasticity / Thermal Stresses 

Hawwa M.A., -US Patent 8,944,148, ADD-ON HEAT SINK. Date of Patent: February 3, 2015.
Al-Sulaiman, F.A. and Hawwa, M.A., "IC tomography and infrared tomography techniques to monitor defect sites in palm tree trunks," Advanced Materials
445, pp. 1053-1057, 2012. 
Hawwa, M.A., Al-Dini, S.A., and Ben-Mansour, R. -US Patent 7,900,690, MOVING CARBON NANOTUBE HEAT SINK. Date of Patent: March 8, 2011.
Al-Sulaiman F.A. and Hawwa, M.A., "Nondestructive diagnosis of date palm trees," The Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Nondestructive T
Wood, Hanover - Germany, pp. 175-181, 2005. 
Al-Garni, A.Z. and Hawwa, M.A. -US Patent 6,955,215, HYBRID COOLING OF ELECTRONIC CHIPS. Date of Patent: October 18, 2005.
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "Thermoelastic waves in a laminated composite with a second sound effect," Journal of Applied Physics 80(5), pp. 27
September 1996.  
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "The general problem of thermoelastic waves in anisotropic periodically laminated composites," Composites Engineering (c
Composites Part B: Engineering) 5(12), pp. 1499-1517, December 1995. 
Hawwa, M.A. and Nayfeh, A.H., "Harmonic generalized thermoelastic waves in anisotropic laminated composites," Progress in Astronautics and Aer
Aerospace Thermal Structures and Materials for a New Era, Charlottesville – VA, pp. 293-322, 1995.

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