Publications
Refereed Journals
Adly, M.A., Arafa, M.H. and Hegazi, H.A, “Modeling and Optimization of an Inertial Triboelectric Motion Sensor,” Nano Energy, 85 (2021) 105952.
Elsisy, M.M., Arafa, M.H., Saleh, C.A. and Anis, Y.H., “Modeling of a Symmetric Five-bar Displacement Amplification Compliant Mechanism for Energy Harvesting,” Sensors, 21 (4) (2021) 1095.
Abdelnaby, M.A. and Arafa, M., “A Bistable Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Low-frequency, Low-amplitude Excitation,” Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 42 (10) (2020) 1 - 10.
Hassan, S.A., Osman, T., Khattab, A., Arafa, M. and Abdelnaby, M., “Design of a Self-tunable, Variable-length Pendulum for Harvesting Energy from Rotational Motion,” Journal of Vibroengineering, 22 (6) (2020) 1309 - 1325.
Elbanna, M.A., Arafa, M.H. and Bowen, C.R., “Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Response of a Triboelectric Generator under Different Operating Conditions,” Energy Technology, 8 (2020) 2000576.
Oney, C.-L., Outrequin, T., Hubert, C., Yan, X., Arafa, M., Gathercole, N. and Bowen, C.R., “A Novel Arch-shaped Hybrid Composite Triboelectric Generator using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers,” Energy Technology, 7 (6) (2019) 1801005.
Zhang, Y., Bowen, C.R., Ghosh, S.K., Mandal, D., Khanbareh, H., Arafa, M., and Wan, C., “Ferroelectret Materials and Devices for Energy Harvesting Applications,” Nano Energy 57 (2019) 118-140.
Xie, M., Zhang, Y., Krasny, M.J., Rhead, A., Bowen, C. and Arafa, M., “Energy Harvesting from Coupled Bending-twisting Oscillations in Carbon-fibre Reinforced Laminates,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 107 (2018) 429 - 438.
Ibrahim, P., Nassar, O., Arafa, M. and Anis, Y., “On Adjusting the Rotary Inertia of a Cantilever-type Energy Harvester for Wideband Operation,” Procedia Engineering 199 (2017) 3422-3427.
Harris, P., Arafa, M., Litak, G., Bowen, C.R. and Iwaniec, J., “Output Response Identification in a Multistable System for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting,” European Physical Journal B 90 (1) (2017).
Xie, M., Zabek, D., Bowen, C., Abdelmageed, M. and Arafa, M., “A Wind-Driven Pyroelectric Energy Harvesting Device,” Smart Materials and Structures 25 (12) (2016) 125023.
Abdelnaby, M.A. and Arafa, M, “Energy Harvesting using a Flextensional Compliant Mechanism,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (2016) 1-12, DOI: 10.1177/1045389X16641220.
Bowen, C.R. and Arafa, M.H., “Energy Harvesting Technologies for Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems,” Advanced Energy Materials 5 (7) (2015) 1401787.
Ali, M., Arafa, M. and Elaraby, M., “Energy Harvesting from Wind-induced Vibrations,” International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research 4 (10) (2013) 422-432.
Aboulfotoh, N.A., Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S.M., “A Self-Tuning Resonator for Vibration Energy Harvesting,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 201 (2013) 328-334.
Saada, M.M., Arafa, M.H. and Nassef, A.O., “Finite Element Model Updating Approach to Damage Identification in Beams using Particle Swarm Optimization,” Engineering Optimization 45 (6) (2013) 677-696.
El-Hebeary, M.M.R, Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S.M., “Modeling and Experimental Verification of Multi-Modal Vibration Energy Harvesting from Plate Structures,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 193 (2013) 35-47.
Arafa, M., “Multi-Modal Vibration Energy Harvesting using a Trapezoidal Plate,” ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 134 (4) (2012) 041010 (6 pages).
Abdel Chafy, R.R., Arafa, M.H. and Esawi, A.M.K., “Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube/Low Density Polyethylene Composites for Strain Sensing,” Key Engineering Materials, 495 (2012) 33-36.
Aladwani, A., Arafa, M., Aldraihem, O. and Baz, A., “Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with a Dynamic Magnifier,” ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics 134 (3) (2012) 031004 (10 pages).
Mansour, M.O., Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S.M., “Resonator with Magnetically Adjustable Natural Frequency for Vibration Energy Harvesting,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 163 (2010) 297-303.
Arafa, M., Aldraihem, O. and Baz, A., “Modeling and Characterization of a Linear Piezomotor,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 20 (2009) 1913-1921.
Aboel-Hassan, A., Arafa, M. and Nassef, A., “Design and Optimization of Input Shapers for Liquid Slosh Suppression,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 320 (2009) 1-15.
Khalifa, A.F., Arafa, M.H. and El-Sherbini, M.G., “Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Sloshing in Rectangular Tanks,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University 54 (5) (2007) 501-516.
Arafa, M.H., Osman, T.A. and Abdel-Latif, I.A., “Noise Assessment and Mitigation Schemes for Hurghada Airport,” Applied Acoustics, 68 (2007) 1373-1385.
Arafa, M., “Finite Element Analysis of Sloshing in Rectangular Liquid-Filled Tanks,” Journal of Vibration and Control, 13 (7) (2007) 883-903.
Arafa, M. and Baz, A., “On the Nonlinear Behavior of Piezoelectric Actuators,” Journal of Vibration and Control, 10 (3) (2004) 387-398.
Arafa, M. and Baz, A., “Energy-Dissipation Characteristics of Active Piezoelectric Damping Composites,” Composites Science and Technology, 60 (2000) 2759-2768.
Arafa, M. and Baz, A., “Dynamics of Active Piezoelectric Damping Composites,” Composites Part B: Engineering, 31 (2000) 255-264.
Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, M.M., “Evaluation of Spur Gear Mesh Compliance Using the Finite Element Method,” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, 213, (C6) (1999) 569-579.
Conferences
Medhat, M.M, Alkady, G.I., Daoud, R.M., ElSayed, H.M., Arafa, A., Amer, H.H., “Economic Design for a Reliable Prosthetic Arm”, Proceedings of the 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2020, 1169 - 1172.
Hassan, R., El-Mansoury, N., Ismail, M., El-Shamsy, K., El-Said, O., Arafa, M. and Esawi, A., “Improving the Sensitivity of Buckypaper Strain Gauges through Tailoring their Porsoity”, Submitted.
Ibrahim, P., Nassar, O., Arafa, M. and Anis, Y., “On Adjusting the Rotary Inertia of a Cantilever-type Energy Harvester for Wideband Operation,” Presented at 10th European Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2017), September 10-13, 2017, Rome, Italy.
Harris, P., Litak, G., Bowen, C.R. and Arafa, M., “A Composite Beam with Dual Bistability for Enhanced Vibration Energy Harvesting,” Proceedings of the SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging 2016: Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications VII, 17-21 April, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abdelnaby, M.A. and Arafa, M, “Motion Amplification using a Flextensional Compliant Mechanism for Enhanced Energy Harvesting,” Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2016: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems X, 21-24 March, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Elsisy, M., Anis, Y., Arafa, M. and Saleh, C., “Modeling of a Symmetric Five-bar Displacement Amplification Mechanism using Energy Methods,” Proceedings of the ASME 2015 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS), September 21 - 23, 2015, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Elsisy, M., Anis, Y., Arafa, M. and Saleh, C., “Displacement Amplification using a Compliant Mechanism for Vibration Energy Harvesting,” Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), November 13-19, 2015, Houston, Texas, USA.
Elhadidi, M., Helal, M., Nassar, O., Zeyada, Y. and Arafa, M., “Tunable Bistable Devices for Harvesting Energy from Spinning Wheels,” Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 9431: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems IX, March 8 - 12, 2015, San Diego, California, USA.
Dawoud, M., Hegazi, H. and Arafa, M., “Design and Optimization of Multi-Modal Vibration Energy Harvesters Using Slitted Beams,” Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2014), November 14 -20, 2014, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Abd El-Mageed, M. G., Arafa, M. and Elaraby, M., “Simulation and Experimental Investigation of an Energy Harvester Utilizing Flow-Induced Vibration,” Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2014), August 17-20, 2014, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Ali, M., Arafa, M. and Elaraby, M., “Harvesting Energy from Galloping Oscillations,” Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference of Mechanical Engineering (ICME'13), World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2013), July 3-5, 2013, London, UK.
El-Hebeary, M.M.R, Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S.M., “Modeling and Experimental Verification of Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting from Plate Structures,” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2012), August 12-15, 2012, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Kayed, M., Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S., “Vibration-Based Damage Detection in Plates using Damage Location Vectors,” Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2011), November 11 - 17, 2011, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Arafa, M., “Multi-Modal Vibration Energy Harvesting using a Trapezoidal Plate,” Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2011), August 28 - 31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA.
Abdel Chafy, R.R., Arafa, M., and Esawi, A., “Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube/Low Density Polyethylene Composites for Strain Sensing,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers (IC-MAST), May 13-17, 2011, Kos Island, Greece.
Arafa, M., Akl, W., Aladwani, A., Aldraihem, O. and Baz, A., “Experimental Implementation of a Cantilevered Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with a Dynamic Magnifier,” Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 7977: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems V, March 7 - 11, 2011, San Diego, California, USA.
Mansour, M.O., Arafa, M.H. and Megahed, S.M., “Design of a Vibration-Based Energy Harvester with Adjustable Natural Frequency,” Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2010), August 15 - 18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Arafa, M., Youssef, A. and Nassef, A., “A Modified Continuous Reactive Tabu Search For Damage Detection In Beams,” Proceedings of the ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2010), August 15 - 18, 2010, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Arafa, M., Akl, W., Al-Hussain, K. and Baz, A., “Broadband Pipeline Vibration Energy Harvesting,” Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 7643: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems IV, March 7 - 11, 2010, San Diego, California, USA.
Arafa, M. and Nassef, A., “Damage Detection Through Spectral Element Model Updating. ” Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2009), August 30 - September 2, 2009, San Diego, California, USA.
Saada, M., Arafa, M. and Nassef, A., “Finite Element Model Updating Approach to Damage Identification in Beams using Particle Swarm Optimization,” Proceedings of the ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2008), August 3-6, 2008, New York, New York, USA.
Mostafa, K.F. and Arafa, M.H., “The Use of Baseline Measurements for Improved Damage Detection Using Damage Location Vectors.” Proceedings of the Mechanics of Slender Structures (MoSS 2008) Conference, July 23-25, 2008, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Aboel-Hassan, A., Arafa, M. and Nassef, A., “Input Shaping Techniques for Liquid Slosh Suppression.” Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2008), July 7-9, 2008, Southampton, UK.
Arafa, M.H., Aldraihem, O.J. and Baz, A.M., “Modeling and Characterization of a Linear Piezomotor,” Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA08), Amman, Jordan, May 27-29, 2008.
El-Hefny, A.M.S., Arafa, M., Ragab, A.R. and El-Raghy, S.M., “Stress Analysis of a Gas Turbine Rotor using Finite Element Modeling,” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Production Engineering and Design for Development (PEDD 7), Ain Shams University, February 7-9, 2006, Cairo, Egypt.
Arafa, M.H., “Vibration Analysis of Cylindrical Fluid-Filled Tanks,” Proceedings of MDP-8, Cairo University Conference on Mechanical Design and Production, Cairo, Egypt, January 4-6, pp. 259-267, 2004.