أستاذ مساعد | Mechanical Engineering Department

العنوان: Building 3, Room 2C 59, Mechanical Engineering Department, King Saud University, PO Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia | الهاتف: +96611 4676660

Hamad F. Alharbi

التعريف الشخصي: 
I received my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from King Abdulaziz University in 2001. I had worked at Saudi Aramco for about five years before I joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at King Saud University. I received a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University in September 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in January 2014. My research interests are broadly centered in the areas of materials science and computational mechanics. In particular, I am interested in conducting FE simulations of various manufacturing processes using efficient physics-based crystal plasticity models that allow more accurate predictions of the mechanical behavior and the evolution of underlying texture in polycrystalline materials.

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EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor                                                                                                                                                                         Feb. 2014-present
Mechanical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
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CURRENT FIELDS OF INTERESTS

  • Crystal Plasticity, Texture Evolution, Finite Element Models, Multi-scale Models, Computational Mechanics and Materials Science.
  • Characterization of Local Anisotropic Mechanical Behavior in Heterogeneous Materials using Spherical Nanoindentation.
  • Microstructure Representation, Orientation Imaging Using SEM/EBSD, n-point Statistics, Microstructure Hulls, and Property Closures.

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering                                                                                                                                                                   January 2014
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

​M.S. Materials Science and Engineering                                                                                                                                      September 2009
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

B.S. Mechanical Engineering                                                                                                                                                                             June 2001
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia                  
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RESEARCH/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant                                                                                                                                                                                                2008-2013
Mechanical Engineering Dept., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Materials Science and Engineering Dept., Drexel University, Pennsylvania                                 
Research Projects (supervised by Prof. Surya R. Kalidindi):

  • Developing crystal plasticity based FE simulation tools using spectral databases.
  • Extracting crystal-level slip hardening parameters in advanced high strength steels using electron microscopy technique and spherical nanoindentation.
  • Multi-scale FE simulations using the newly developed mathematical scale-bridging (localization) framework, called Materials Knowledge System.

Teaching Assistant                                                                         

  • Materials Science Department, Drexel University                                                                                                                  Aug. 2008-Aug. 2009
    Courses: Processing Metallic Materials (MSE-366) and Applied Engineering Analytical & Numerical Methods III (MEM-593)
  • Mechanical Engineering Department, King Saud University                                                                                              June 2006-Aug. 2007
    Courses: Processing of Eng. Materials (ME-355 & 356), Experimental Design (ME-508), and Engineering Drawing (ME-202).

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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

  • Engineer IV                                                                                                                                                                                        July 2002-April 2005
    Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
    Responsiblities included: montioring Nondestructive testing (NDT) and welding activities on piping and tanks, monitoring corrosion protection systems on different gas oil sepearation plants, conducting fitness for service assessement of tanks and pipelines, and preparing design packages for addressing plant malfunctions.
  • Maintenance Engineer                                                                                                                                                          Aug. 2001-March 2002
    Ibn Sina National Methanol Company
    Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Saudi Arabia
    Responsiblities included: monitoring vibration in rotating equipment incluidng pumps and compressors as well as investigating Cathoid Protection (CP) system for underground piping.

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SKILLS

Materials Characterization:

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Orientation Imaging Microscopy using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD).
  • Nanoindentation to measure local mechanical properties at the submicron scale.
  • Sample preparation: Mechanical polishing, electro-polishing
  • Thermo-mechanical processing, mechanical testing, and heat treatment
  • N-point correlations, texture analysis

Modeling/Simulations/Programming

  • Finite Element software (ABAQUS, ANSYS, LSDYNA)
  • Metal forming simulations (FORGE, DEFORM)
  • Extensive knowledge of developing User Materials Subroutine (UMAT) for ABAQUS including elastic, plastic, and crystal plasticity constitutive equations.
  • FORTRAN, Python, Perl, MATLAB, Maple, Mathematica, AutoCAD, SolidWorks.

Computational Mechanics

  • Classical plasticity theories
  • Crystal plasticity
  • Composite theories

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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Al-Harbi, H.F. and S.R. Kalidindi, Crystal plasticity finite element simulations of cubic polycrystalline materials using spectral databases. International Journal of Plasticity, accepted, 2014.
  2. Patel, D.K., H.F. Al-Harbi, and S.R. Kalidindi, Extracting single crystal elastic constants from polycrystalline samples using spherical nanoindentation simulations. Submitted to Acta Materialia.
  3. Al-Harbi, H.F., G. Landi, and S.R. Kalidindi, Multi-scale modeling of the elastic response of a structural component made from a composite material using the materials knowledge system.  Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2012. 20(5).
  4.  Hamad F. Al-Harbi, Marko Knezevic, and Surya R. Kalidindi (2010). "Spectral Approaches for the Fast Computation of Yield Surfaces and First-Order Plastic Property Closures for Polycrystalline Materials with Cubic-Triclinic Textures." Computers, Materials, & Continua (CMC) 15(2): 153-172.
  5.  Marko Knezevic, Hamad F. Al-Harbi, and Surya R. Kalidindi (2009). "Crystal plasticity simulations using discrete Fourier transform." Acta Materialia 57(6): 1777-1784.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Hamad F. Al-Harbi and Surya R. Kalidindi, “ New spectral crystal plasticity approach using Discrete Foruier Transforms”, Society of Engineering Science, 49th Annual Technical Meeting, October 10-12, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia.
  2. Hamad F. Al-Harbi, Giacomo Landi, and Surya R. Kalidindi, “Multi-scale modeling of the elastic response of a structural component made from a composite material using the materials knowledge system”, International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM XXII), September 24-26, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland.
  3. Hamad F. Al-Harbi, Josh Shaffer, Surya R. Kalidindi “Crystal plasticity finite element simulations of cubic metals using spectral databases of DFTs”, TMS 2011, Feb. 27-March 03, 2011. San Diago, California.
  4.  Hamad F. Al-Harbi, Marko Knezevic, Surya R. Kalidindi “Elastic-Plastic Closures for Polycrystalline Cubic-Triclinic Microstructures using Spectral Crystal Plasticity”, Materials Science & Technology Oct 25-29 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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MEMBERSHIPS

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), ASM International, The American Ceramic Society (ACers), Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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REFERENCES

Surya Kalidindi, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bunger Henry, Room 192
surya.kalidindi@me.gatech.edu
T: 404.385.2886

المؤهلات العلمية

الجامعة: 
Georgia Institute of Technology
من تاريخ: 
الاثنين, أيلول (سبتمبر) 24, 2007
إلى تاريخ: 
الجمعة, كانون الثاني (يناير) 24, 2014
التخصص: 
Mechanical Engineering
الدرجة العلمية: 
Ph.D.
الجامعة: 
Drexel University
من تاريخ: 
الاثنين, تموز (يوليو) 1, 1996
إلى تاريخ: 
الثلاثاء, أيلول (سبتمبر) 8, 2009
التخصص: 
Materials Science and Engineering
الدرجة العلمية: 
M.S.
الجامعة: 
King Abdulaziz University
من تاريخ: 
إلى تاريخ: 
السبت, حزيران (يونيو) 23, 2001
التخصص: 
Mechanical Engineering
الدرجة العلمية: 
B.S.
ملف مرفق: 
المرفقالحجم
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