TRIPOLI UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering

 

Aeronautical Engineering Department

 
 
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  Name: Gamal Mohamed Ashawesh

E-mail: gashawesh@aerodept.edu.ly

Academic degree: Professor

Education:

Ph. D.   United Kingdom, , Cranfield University 1999

M. Sc. United Kingdom, Cranfield Institute of Technology 1993

B. Sc.  Libya, Engineering Academy Tajoura, 1987
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Head of the Registration and Examination Office at the Engineering Academy, Tajoura, (1988 to 1990),
• Head of the Aeronautical Engineering Department , (1999 to 2006), at Engineering Academy, Tajoura.
• Chairman Academic Affairs, (form 2006 to 2011) at the Engineering Academy, Tajoura.
• Staff member at Tripoli University in the Aeronautical Engineering Department, 2012.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Design of Flight Vehicles, Structural Analysis of Flight Vehicles, Structural Dynamics, Mechanical Vibration, Aeroelasticity, Flight Vehicle Stressing, Strength of Materials, Analysis of Composite Materials, and its Application.

AREAS OF CURRENT RESEARCH:
• Effect of Structural and Material Coupling on the Dynamic Characteristics of Aircraft Composite Wings.
• Effect of Wash-in and Washout Deformations on Divergence and Flutter speed of Aircraft Composite Wings.
• Study of Root Flexibility and other Composite Material Parameters on the Dynamic and Aeroelastic Characteristics of Aircraft Wings.

RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST:
• Analysis of Composite Materials in Aerospace Applications.
• Structural Dynamics and Mechanical Vibrations.
• Structural Design, Analysis and Stressing of Flight Vehicles.
• Aeroelastic Tailoring of a Composite Aerospace Structure.
• Aeroelastic Optimizations in Aerospace Structures.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT:
Mechanical Vibration, Aeroelasticity, Strength of materials I, Strength of Materials II, Stress Analysis I, Stress Analysis II, Aircraft Design I, Aircraft Design II, Fracture Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics-I (Static's), Engineering Mechanics-II (Dynamics), Aircraft Structures, Composite Materials.
 

 

  
  SAMPLES OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. "A Comparative Study of Experimental and Finite Element Analysis for Composite Aircraft Structures" Proceeding of the 2nd European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Cracow, Poland, June 26-29, 2001.
  2. "Some Aspects of an Experimental Investigation on Composite Aerobatic Aircraft Structure" Proceeding of 9th International Conference on Aerospace Science and Aviation Technology, Cairo, Egypt, May 8-10, 2001.
  3. "Experimental and Finite Element Analysis for Composite Aircraft Structures" Proceeding of 9th International Conference on Aerospace Science and Aviation Technology, Cairo, Egypt, May 8-10, 2001.
  4. "Effect of Wash-in and Wash-out on the Flutter Characteristics of Composite Aircraft Wings" Proceeding of 10th International Conference on Aerospace Science and Aviation Technology, Cairo, Egypt, May 13-15, 2003.
  5. "Aeroelastic Analysis of a Real Metal Wing box using Finite Element Method" 1st CEACM Conference on Computational Mechanics, 15th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, CMM-2003, Gliwice/Wisla, Poland, June 3-6, 2003.
  6. "Free Vibration Analysis of a Composite Wing box- Initial Aeroelastic Investigations", 4th International Engineering science conference,, Mansoura University, Sharem Alsheke, Egypt, April 20-22, 2004.
  7. Effect of Root Flexibility on the Aeroelastic Analysis of a Composite Wing box." ICTAM04, World Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 15-21 August 2004.
  

 

 

 

 

 

Last Update  8 - 03 - 2015

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