Mohammad A. AL-Shudeifat
Current address
Khalifa University
Abu Dhabi, 127788
Tel: (050) 520 3474496
Email: mohd.shudeifat@kustar.ac.ae
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, August – 2010.
New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, USA.
Dissertation: “New Techniques for Order Reduction and Damage Detection in Structural and Rotordynamic
Systems”
Advisor: Dr. Eric A. Butcher, Co-Advisor: Prof. Thomas D. Burton
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, December–2007.
New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, NM, USA.
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, June 2000
Jordan University of Science & Technology (JUST), Irbid, Jordan
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, June 1996
University of Jordan (JU), Amman, Jordan
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, Abu
Dhabi, UAE. Joined on July 7th 2012.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS (After Ph.D)
Post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Alex Vakakis and Prof. Lawrence Bergman, Department of
Mechanical Science and Engineering, Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign (UIUC). Feb. 2011- July 2012.
College assistant professor for Fall 2010, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA. Courses: 2 classes in thermodynamics, 1 class in Aircraft Structure.
Aug. 2010-Dec. 2010
PREVIOUS RELATED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
01/2008-08/2010
Research assistant, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico state
University, Las Cruces, NM.
08/2006-01/2008
Teaching assistant, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico state
University, Las Cruces, NM.
02/2004-08/2006
Full-Time Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Irbid, Jordan . Courses Taught: Engineering Economy, Engineering Drawing Using
AutoCAD, Engineering Drawing (Manual), Mechanical Engineering Labs, Engineering Workshops.
02/2002-02/2003
Part-Time Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Courses Taught: Applied Mathematics for Engineers, Engineering
Drawing Using AutoCAD, Mechanical Engineering Labs, and Engineering Workshops.
02/2001-02/2002
Part-Time Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Courses Taught: Engineering Drawing Using AutoCAD.
09/1997-06/2000
Teaching Assistant, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science and
Technology, Irbid, Jordan. Courses assisted: Dynamics, Mechanical Vibration, Engineering
Drawing, Fluid Mechanics, Instrumentation Lab, Heat & Mass Transfer Lab, Mechanical
Vibration Lab and Internal Combustion Lab.
PREVIOUS RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
06/2008 – 12/2008
An Integrated Phenomenological and Physics-Based Framework for Multi-Sensor Vibration
Analysis, Air Force/Management Science Inc. (SBIR), June 1, 2008 - Dec. 1, 2008. Preparing the
Spectra-Quest Rotor Dynamics Simulator (MFS-RDS) and doing the analytical and experimental
part.
05/2007 – 08/2007
Testing trap-grease oil in 150 (kW) gas turbine unit, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng. NMSU.
05/1997 – 05/2004
Operations and Maintenance Engineer, Central Electricity Generation Company (CEGCO),
Jordan-Amman (7 years). Locations:
Risha Gas Turbine Power Station, frame 6 (30 MW) Gas Turbines, natural gas fuel, mark 2 and 5
speedtronic.
Rehab Gas Turbine Power Station; frame 6 (30MW) and frame 9 (100MW) Gas Turbines, diesel
fuel, mark 5 speedtronic.
HONORS/AFFILIATIONS
Mechanical Engineering Fellowship (NMSU), fall 2009 & spring 2010
Research assistantship (NMSU), Jan 2008- present
Teaching assistantship (NMSU), Aug 2006- Jan 2008
Graduate assistantship award 2007 and 2008, New Mexico State University
Best Invention Award, Granted by Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan, July 2004
MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY SERVICES
ASME member
Reviewer for:
Journal of Sound and Vibration
Nonlinear Dynamic
ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
Journal of vibration and control
Meccanica, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics AIMETA
Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics: ASME
Journal of mechanical engineering science
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
ASME IDETC/CIE 2010
ASME DETC/CIE-2013
ASME DETC/CIE-2014
ASME DETC/CIE-2015
ASME, IMECE conference, IMECE 2009
ASME, IMECE conference, IMECE 2013
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nonlinear vibration suppression and the related engineering applications.
Nonlinear energy sinks (NES) and their applications in structural and aerospace dynamical systems.
Structural health monitoring (SHM).
Damage detection in structural and rotordynamic systems
Order reduction of structural dynamic systems
Renewable energy
TEACHING INTEREST
Undergraduate courses in dynamics, vibration, control, thermodynamic, statics, solid mechanics,
rrotordynamics, and aerospace structures.
Undergraduate courses in mathematics for mechanical engineers
Graduate courses in structural dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, rotordynamics, vibration and control.
H-INDEX & CITATIONS (by June 25th 2015)
Scopus: citations (206) with H-index: 9
http://www-scopus-com.ezproxy.kustar.ac.ae/authid/detail.url?authorId=34869290900
Web of Sci.: citations (163) with H-index: 8
Published Journal Papers (up to June 2015)
1. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., (2015), Stability Analysis and Backward Whirl Investigation of Cracked Rotors with Time-Varying
Stiffness, Journal of sound and vibration, 348, pp.365–380
2. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Vakakis, A.F., Bergman, L.A., (2015), Shock Mitigation by Means of Low- to High-Frequency
Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfers of a Large-Scale Structure, J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam., doi:
10.1115/1.4030540.
3. AL-Shudeifat, M. A., (2015), Asymmetric Magnet-Based Nonlinear Energy Sink, J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam., 10(1),
pp.014502.
4. AL-Shudeifat, M. A., (2015), Amplitudes Decay in Different Kinds of Nonlinear Oscillators, Journal of Vibration and
Acoustics, 137(3), pp.031012-9.
5. Guo, C., AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Vakakis, A.F., Bergman, L.A., McFarland, D.M., & Yan, J., (2015), Vibration reduction
in unbalanced hollow rotor systems with nonlinear energy sinks, Nonlinear Dynamics, 79(1), pp.527-538
6. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., (2015), Analytical Formulas for the Energy, Velocity and Displacement Decays of Purely
Nonlinear Damped Oscillators, Journal of vibration and control, 21(6), pp.1210-1219.
7. Vakakis, A. F., AL-Shudeifat, M. A., Hasan, M. A., (2014), Interactions of propagating waves in a one-dimensional
chain of linear oscillators with a strongly nonlinear local attachment, Meccanica, 49(10), pp.2375-2397.
8. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., (2014), Highly efficient nonlinear energy sink, Nonlinear Dynamics, 76(4), pp.1905-1920.
9. Wierschem, N., Luo, J., AL-Shudeifat, M., Hubbard, S., Ott, R., Fahnestock, L., Quinn, D., McFarland, D., Spencer, B.,
Jr., Vakakis, A., and Bergman, L., (2014), Experimental Testing and Numerical Simulation of a Six-Story Structure
Incorporating Two-Degree-of-Freedom Nonlinear Energy Sink, J. Struct. Eng., 140(6), pp.04014027.
10. Luo, J., Wierschem, N., Fahnestock, L., Bergman, L., Spencer, B., Jr., AL-Shudeifat, M., McFarland, D., Quinn, D., and
Vakakis, A., (2014), Realization of a Strongly Nonlinear Vibration-Mitigation Device Using Elastomeric Bumpers. J.
Eng. Mech., 140(5), pp.04014009.
11. Guo, C., AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Yan, J., Bergman, L.A., McFarland, D.M., & Butcher, E.A., (2013), Stability analysis for
transverse breathing cracks in rotor systems, European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 42, pp.27-34.
12. AL-Shudeifat M. A., (2013), On the finite element modeling of an asymmetric cracked rotor, Journal of Sound and
Vibration, 332(11), pp.2795–2807.
13. AL-Shudeifat M.A, Butcher E. A., (2013), On the Dynamics of a Beam with Switching Crack and Damaged
Boundaries”. Journal of Vibration and Control, 19 (1), pp.30 - 46.
14. Chaozhong Guo, M.A. AL-Shudeifat, Jihong Yan, L.A. Bergman, D.M. McFarland, E.A. Butcher, (2013), Application
of Empirical Mode Decomposition to a Jeffcott Rotor with a Breathing Crack, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 332, pp.
3881- 3892.
15. M. A. AL-Shudeifat, Nicholas Wierschem, D. Dane Quinn, Alexander F. Vakakis, Lawrence A. Bergman, Billie F.
Spencer Jr., (2013), Numerical and Experimental Investigation of a Highly Effective Single-Sided Vibro-Impact
Nonlinear Energy Sink for Shock Mitigation, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, 52, pp. 96–109.
16. Nicholas Wierschem, Jie Luo, D. Dane Quinn, Sean Hubbard, M.S., M.A. Al-Shudeifat, D. Michael McFarland,
Alexander F Vakakis, Lawrence A Bergman, Billie F Spencer, Jr, (2012), Passive Damping Enhancement of a Twodegree-of-freedom System Through a Strongly Nonlinear Two-degree-of-freedom Attachment, Journal of sound and
vibration, 331(25), pp.5393-5407.
17. Quinn D. D., Wierschem N., Hubbard S., AL-Shudeifat M. A., Richard J. Ott, McFarland D. M., Vakakis A. F. and
Bergman L. A., (2012), Equivalent modal damping, stiffening and energy exchanges in multi-degree-of-freedom systems
with strongly nonlinear attachments, Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 226(2), pp.122-146.
18. Sigalov G., Gendelman O. V., AL-Shudeifat M. A., Manevitch L. I., Vakakis A. F. and Bergman L. A., (2012),
Resonance Captures and Targeted Energy Transfers in an Inertially Coupled Rotational Nonlinear Energy Sink,
Nonlinear Dynamics, 69(4), pp.1693-1704.
19. G. Sigalov, O.V. Gendelman, M. Al-Shudeifat, L.I. Manevitch, A.F. Vakakis, L.A. Bergman, (2012), Alternation of
Regular and Chaotic Dynamics in a Simple Two-Degree-of-Freedom System with Nonlinear Inertial Coupling”, Chaos,
22(1).
20. AL-Shudeifat M. A., Butcher E. A., (2011), New Breathing Functions for the Transverse Breathing Crack of the
Cracked Rotor System: Approach for Critical and Subcritical Harmonic Analysis”. Journal of Sound and Vibration,
330(3), pp.526-544.
21. Butcher E. A., AL- Shudeifat M. A., (2011), An Efficient Mode-Based Alternative to Principal Orthogonal Modes in
the Order Reduction of Structural Dynamic Systems with Isolated Nonlinearities, Mechanical Systems and Signal
Processing, 25(5), pp.1527-1549.
22. AL-Shudeifat M.A, Butcher E. A., (2011), Order Reduction of Forced Nonlinear Systems Using Updated LELSM
Modes with New Ritz vectors, Nonlinear Dynamics, 62(4), pp.821–840.
23. AL- Shudeifat M. A., Butcher E. A., Carl R. S., (2010), General Harmonic Balance Solution of a Cracked RotorBearing-Disk System for Harmonic and Sub-harmonic Analysis: Analytical and Experimental Approach, International
Journal of Engineering Science, 48(10), pp.921-935.
24. AL- Shudeifat M. A., Donaldson A. B., (2010), Combustion of Waste Trap Grease Oil in Gas Turbine Generator, Fuel,
89(3), pp.549-553.
25. Tashtoush B., Tahat M. and AL- Shudeifat M. A., (2002), Experimental Study of New Refrigerant Mixtures to Replace
R12 in Domestic Refrigerators”, Applied Thermal Engineering, pp.495-506.
Conference Papers (up to June 2015)
26. AL-Shudeifat M. A., “New Design of Magnetic Nonlinear Energy Sink for Shock Mitigation in Dynamic Structures”,
Proceedings of the ASME DETC/CIE-2013, DETC2013-12461, August 4-7, 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA, accepted
paper
27. AL-Shudeifat M. A., “Approach for Stability Analysis of a Cracked Rotor With Time-Varying Stiffness”, Proceedings
of the ASME DETC/CIE-2013, DETC2013-12459, August 4-7, 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA,
28. AL-Shudeifat M. A., Bergman, L.A., Vakakis, A. F., “Numerical Investigation of Rotating Nonlinear Energy Sink for
Shock Mitigation”, Proceedings of the ASME DETC/CIE-2013, DETC2013-13177, August 4-7, 2013, Portland, Oregon,
USA.
29. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Time-varying frequency formula for the purely nonlinear damped oscillator, Proceedings of the
ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering
Conference, August 17-20, 2014, Buffalo, New York, USA.
30. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Vakakis, A.F., Bergman, L.A. , Shock mitigation by energy reversal to the high frequency modes,
Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information
in Engineering Conference, August 17-20, 2014, Buffalo, New York, USA.
31. Wierschem, N.E., AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Spencer Jr., B.F., Vakakis, A.F., Bergman, L.A., Experimental Investigation of
a Rotational Nonlinear Energy Sink for Shock Mitigation, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Design
Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 17-20, 2014,
Buffalo, New York, USA.
32. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Burton, T.D., Analytical Solution of Two Coupled Oscillators with a Nonlinear Coupling
Resorting Force, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
IMECE2014 November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
33. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., Burton, T.D., Amplitudes Decays in the nonlinear oscillators of mixed linear and cubic stiffness
components, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition IMECE2014
November 14-20, 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
34. Mohammad Al-Shideifat, Nicholas Wierschem, Alexander F. Vakakis, Lawrence A. Bergman, “Numerical and
Experimental Investigation of a New Nonlinear Energy Sink for Passive Shock Mitigation”, ASME 2012 International
Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE),
DETC2012-70453, August 12-15 2012 Chicago, IL.
35. Nicholas Wierschem, Mohammad Al-Shideifat, Jie Luo, Sean Hubbard, Richard Ott, Larry Fahnestock, D. Dane
Quinn, Michael McFarland, B. F. Spencer Jr., Alexander F. Vakakis, Lawrence A. Bergman,“ Simulation and Testing of
a 6-Story Structure Incorporating a Coupled Two Mass Nonlinear Energy Sink”, ASME 2012 International Design
Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE),
DETC2012-71442, August 12-15 2012 Chicago, IL.
36. Al-Shudeifat M. A., Butcher E. A. and Burton T. D., “Enhanced Order Reduction of Forced Nonlinear Systems Using
New Ritz Vectors”, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, Volume 2 (2011), Pages 41-52.
37. Al-Shudeifat, M. A., Butcher E. A., “On the modeling of open and breathing cracks of a cracked rotor system,”
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Volume 5 (2010), Pages 919-928.
38. Al-Shudeifat, M. A., Butcher E. A., On the Dynamics of a Beam with Switching Crack and Damaged Boundaries:
Application of the Local Equivalent Linear Stiffness Method (LELSM), Thirteenth Conference on Nonlinear Vibrations,
Dynamics, and Multibody Systems, May 23-27, 2010, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
39. Butcher E. A., Sevostianov I., Sari M. and Al-Shudeifat M. A., “Use of Nonlinear Vibration Frequencies and Electrical
Conductivity Measurements in the Separation of Internal and Boundary Damage in Structures,” Proceedings of ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Volume 11 (2009) Pages 589-598.
40. AL-Shudeifat M. A., Butcher E. A., “Identification of the Critical Crack Depths and Locations of Rotordynamic
Systems in Backward Whirl", Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring,
September 9-11, 2009. Stanford University, CA.
41. Al-Shudeifat, M. A., Butcher E. A., and Burton T. D., “Comparison of Order Reduction Methodologies and
Identification of NNMs in Structural Dynamic Systems with Isolated Nonlinearities,” Proceedings of IMAC -XXVII,
Orlando, FL, Feb. 9-12, 2009.
42. Al-Shudeifat, M. A. (New Mexico State University) and Donaldson A. B. (Sandia National Laboratory),” Testing Trapgrease Oil in 150 kW Gas turbine”, 83rd Annual Multidisciplinary Meeting, University of New Mexico, April 9-12,
2008, Albuquerque, NM.
43. Al-Shudeifat M. A., A New Refrigerant Mixture Composed of Hydrocarbons and Hydroflourocarbon Gases,
Propane/Isobutane/R134a, Latest Developments in Refrigerated Storage, Transportation and Display of Food Products,
Proc. International IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration) Conference, March 2005, Amman, Jordan.
44. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., “Piecewise Nonlinear Energy Sink”, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Design
Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2015 August
2-5, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. DETC2015-47301.
45. AL-Shudeifat, M.A., “Nonlinear Energy Sink with a Non-Traditional Kind of Nonlinear Restoring Force”, Proceedings
of the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in
Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2015 August 2-5, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts. DETC2015-47309.
Books
Al-Shudeifat M. A. (2003) Engineering Drawing Using AutoCAD,
Patents
Patent No. (2153) Granted on November 19, 2002 - Jordan. Developing a New Refrigerant
Mixture to Replace Freon-12 in Domestic Refrigerators.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Professional in:
Matlab and Fortran
Power point presentation
AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop
CURRENT FUNDED RESEARCH
Khalifa University Internal Research Level 1 Award for 2015 (~200,000 AED) No. 210078, “Damage Diagnosis in
Industrial and Aerospace Rotor Systems”, Co-PI-1: Dr. Wael Zaki, Mechanical Engineering and Co-PI-2: Dr. Kamran Khan,
Aerospace Engineering.
Co-researcher in the awarded KUSTAR-KAIST collaboration research fund with Prof. Hoon Sohn as a PI from the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (KAIST). “Noncontact, real-time, and autonomous diagnosis of fatigue
cracks in industrial and aerospace rotor systems”. Research period: 1/6/2015 to 31/3/2016.
REFERENCES
Prof. Alexander Vakakis, W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor , Department of Mechanical
Science and Engineering, Affiliate Professor , Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of
Illinois, Urbana – Champaign, Tel. 217-333-3048 (Office), 217-721-2558 (Cell), 217-333-5981
(Secretary), Fax 217-244-6534.Email: avakakis@illinois.edu
Prof. Lawrence Bergman, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana –
Champaign, Tel. 217-333-4970 (Office), lbergman@illinois.edu.
Dr. Eric A. Butcher (Advisor), Phone (575) 646-6179, Fax (575) 646-6111, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Dept., P.O. Box 30001 / MSC 3450, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM, 88003-8001, Email: eab@nmsu.edu
Prof. Thomas D. Burton (Department Chair) Phone (+971) 2-5018505, Fax (+971) 2-4472442,
Aerospace Engineering Dept., Postal Code 127788, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Email:
thomas.burton@kustar.ac.ae