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Dr Muhammad Muhammad

B.Sc., PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer
Alice Perry Engineering Building,
University of Galway
University Road, Galway
Ireland
E: m.muhammad@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

Dr. Muhammad graduated from UET Lahore with a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Aug 2017, and a Ph.D. in Civil Structural Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong in July 2021. After working for two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow funded by the Irish Research Council and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, he was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Galway in Sep 2023.

His research interests are in Structural Dynamics, Applied Mechanics, Vibration, and Acoustics in particular in phononic crystals, acoustic and mechanical metamaterials in applications to acoustic and elastic wave manipulation, including guided waves for non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring and vibration and noise control applications. He has extensive experience in the development of theoretical, numerical, and experimental techniques to design and manufacture phononic metamaterials. He remains an Irish Research Council-Research Fellow and received the Seal of Excellence Award from EU-Horizon MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021.

He has taught Fluid Mechanics to 3rd-year Mechanical Engineering students at Trinity College Dublin and Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Combustion Engineering Sciences courses to undergraduate and master students at the University of Galway. In 2023 he was nominated for the Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence.

Research Interests

Research interests include:
Acoustic/elastic metamaterials, Architected materials, Additive manufacturing, Phononic crystals, Solid mechanics, Structural dynamics, Smart materials, Vibration and acoustics, Wave propagation, Responsive, adaptive and reconfigurable materials

Research Projects

  Project Start Date End Date
TimberFlow: Enhancing Efficiency in Mass Timber Construction Through Innovative Design Practices and Capacity Building 01-JUN-24
Advancing Indoor Acoustic Quality Through Innovative Acoustic Metamaterial Solutions 15-MAR-24

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2023) 'Design and fabrication of 3D-printed composite metastructure with subwavelength and ultrawide bandgaps'
Muhammad; John Kennedy; Oluwaseyi Ogun (2023) 'Design and fabrication of 3D-printed composite metastructure with subwavelength and ultrawide bandgaps'. New Journal Of Physics, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Machine learning and deep learning in phononic crystals and metamaterials ¿ A review'
Muhammad; John Kennedy; C.W. Lim (2022) 'Machine learning and deep learning in phononic crystals and metamaterials ¿ A review'. Materials Today Communications, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'From Photonic Crystals to Seismic Metamaterials: A Review via Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials'
Muhammad,Lim, C. W. (2022) 'From Photonic Crystals to Seismic Metamaterials: A Review via Phononic Crystals and Acoustic Metamaterials'. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 29 (2):1137-1198 [Details]
(2022) 'Inverse design of a topological phononic beam with interface modes'
Muhammad; Oluwaseyi Ogun; John Kennedy (2022) 'Inverse design of a topological phononic beam with interface modes'. Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Phononic crystal based sensor to detect acoustic variations in methyl & ethyl nonafluorobutyl ether'
Muhammad (2022) 'Phononic crystal based sensor to detect acoustic variations in methyl & ethyl nonafluorobutyl ether'. Materials Today Communications, [DOI] [Details]
(2022) 'Periodic and aperiodic 3-D composite metastructures with ultrawide bandgap for vibration and noise control'
Muhammad and C.W. Lim and Zoe Yaw and Zhenyu Chen (2022) 'Periodic and aperiodic 3-D composite metastructures with ultrawide bandgap for vibration and noise control'. Composite Structures, 287 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Wide Rayleigh waves bandgap engineered metabarriers for ground born vibration attenuation'
Muhammad and C.W. Lim and Krzysztof Kamil Żur (2021) 'Wide Rayleigh waves bandgap engineered metabarriers for ground born vibration attenuation'. Engineering Structures, 246 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Ultrawide bandgap by 3D monolithic mechanical metastructure for vibration and noise control'
Muhammad,Lim, C. W. (2021) 'Ultrawide bandgap by 3D monolithic mechanical metastructure for vibration and noise control'. Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 21 (2) [Details]
(2021) 'A Novel Application of Multi-Resonant Dissipative Elastic Metahousing for Bearings'
Muhammad,Lim, C. W.,Vyas, N. S. (2021) 'A Novel Application of Multi-Resonant Dissipative Elastic Metahousing for Bearings'. Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, 34 (4):449-465 [Details]
(2021) 'Natural seismic metamaterials: the role of tree branches in the birth of Rayleigh wave bandgap for ground born vibration attenuation'
Muhammad,Lim, C. W. (2021) 'Natural seismic metamaterials: the role of tree branches in the birth of Rayleigh wave bandgap for ground born vibration attenuation'. Trees, 35 (4):1299-1315 [Details]
(2021) 'Phononic metastructures with ultrawide low frequency three-dimensional bandgaps as broadband low frequency filter'
Muhammad,Lim, C. W. (2021) 'Phononic metastructures with ultrawide low frequency three-dimensional bandgaps as broadband low frequency filter'. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) [Details]
(2021) 'Composite trampoline metamaterial with enlarged local resonance bandgap'
Muhammad and Sayed Iftikhar Hussain and C.W. Lim (2021) 'Composite trampoline metamaterial with enlarged local resonance bandgap'. Applied Acoustics, 184 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Design and manufacturing of monolithic mechanical metastructures governing ultrawide low frequency three-dimensional bandgaps'
Muhammad (2021) 'Design and manufacturing of monolithic mechanical metastructures governing ultrawide low frequency three-dimensional bandgaps'. Additive Manufacturing, 47 [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Low frequency topologically protected wave transport in sinusoidal lightweight acoustic metamaterials'
Chen, Zhenyu and Muhammad and Wang, Xiangyu and Lim, C. W. (2021) 'Low frequency topologically protected wave transport in sinusoidal lightweight acoustic metamaterials'. Journal of Applied Physics, 130 (4) [DOI] [Details]
(2021) 'Plane and Surface Acoustic Waves Manipulation by Three-Dimensional Composite Phononic Pillars with 3D Bandgap and Defect Analysis'
Muhammad and Lim, C.W. and Leung, Andrew Y. T. (2021) 'Plane and Surface Acoustic Waves Manipulation by Three-Dimensional Composite Phononic Pillars with 3D Bandgap and Defect Analysis'. Acoustics, 3 (1):25-41 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Lightweight architected lattice phononic crystals with broadband and multiband vibration mitigation characteristics'
Muhammad and C.W. Lim and Jensen T.H. Li and Zhen Zhao (2020) 'Lightweight architected lattice phononic crystals with broadband and multiband vibration mitigation characteristics'. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 41 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Voltage-controlled quantum valley Hall effect in dielectric membrane-type acoustic metamaterials'
Weijian Zhou and Yipin Su and Muhammad and Weiqiu Chen and C.W. Lim (2020) 'Voltage-controlled quantum valley Hall effect in dielectric membrane-type acoustic metamaterials'. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 172 [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Forest Trees as Naturally Available Seismic Metamaterials: Low Frequency Rayleigh Wave with Extremely Wide Bandgaps'
Muhammad and Wu, Tingkai and Lim, C. W. (2020) 'Forest Trees as Naturally Available Seismic Metamaterials: Low Frequency Rayleigh Wave with Extremely Wide Bandgaps'. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 20 (14) [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Dissipative Multiresonant Pillared and Trampoline Metamaterials With Amplified Local Resonance Bandgaps and Broadband Vibration Attenuation'
Muhammad and Lim, C.W. (2020) 'Dissipative Multiresonant Pillared and Trampoline Metamaterials With Amplified Local Resonance Bandgaps and Broadband Vibration Attenuation'. Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 142 (6) [DOI] [Details]
(2020) 'Surface elastic waves whispering gallery modes based subwavelength tunable waveguide and cavity modes of the phononic crystals'
Muhammad, C. W. Lim, J. N. Reddy, E. Carrera, Xinsheng Xu and Zhenhuan Zhou (2020) 'Surface elastic waves whispering gallery modes based subwavelength tunable waveguide and cavity modes of the phononic crystals'. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 27 (13):1053-1064 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Built-up structural steel sections as seismic metamaterials for surface wave attenuation with low frequency wide bandgap in layered soil medium'
Muhammad and C.W. Lim and J.N. Reddy (2019) 'Built-up structural steel sections as seismic metamaterials for surface wave attenuation with low frequency wide bandgap in layered soil medium'. Engineering Structures, 188 :440-451 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Elastic waves propagation in thin plate metamaterials and evidence of low frequency pseudo and local resonance bandgaps'
Muhammad and C.W. Lim (2019) 'Elastic waves propagation in thin plate metamaterials and evidence of low frequency pseudo and local resonance bandgaps'. Physics Letters A, 383 (23):2789-2796 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Surface effect on the propagation of flexural waves in periodic nano-beam and the size-dependent topological properties'
Weijian Zhou and Weiqiu Chen and Muhammad and C.W. Lim (2019) 'Surface effect on the propagation of flexural waves in periodic nano-beam and the size-dependent topological properties'. Composite Structures, 216 :427-435 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Topological edge modeling and localization of protected interface modes in 1D phononic crystals for longitudinal and bending elastic waves'
Muhammad and Weijian Zhou and C.W. Lim (2019) 'Topological edge modeling and localization of protected interface modes in 1D phononic crystals for longitudinal and bending elastic waves'. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 159 :359-372 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Actively controllable flexural wave band gaps in beam-type acoustic metamaterials with shunted piezoelectric patches'
Weijian Zhou and Muhammad and Weiqiu Chen and Zhenyu Chen and C.W. Lim (2019) 'Actively controllable flexural wave band gaps in beam-type acoustic metamaterials with shunted piezoelectric patches'. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 77 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Actively tunable transverse waves in soft membrane-type acoustic metamaterials'
Zhou, Weijian and Wu, Bin and Muhammad and Du, Qiujiao and Huang, Guoliang and Lü, Chaofeng and Chen, Weiqiu (2018) 'Actively tunable transverse waves in soft membrane-type acoustic metamaterials'. Journal of Applied Physics, 123 (16) [DOI] [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2024 Nominee for College/Presidential Teaching Excellence Award University of Galway
2023 Nominee for Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award Trinity College Dublin
2022 Seal of Excellence Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2021
2021 Outstanding Academic Performance Award (2018-2021) Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, City University of Hong Kong
2020 Research Tuition Scholarship (2018-2021) Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies, City University of Hong Kong
2018 Certificate of Completion with Honors in Advanced tutor series for Ph.D. students. Office of Education Development and Gateway Education, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Teaching Interests

Engineering Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Design and Analysis of Structures, Concrete Structures, Steel Structures, Soil Mechanics/Geotechnical Engineering, Finite Element Modeling 

Current Postgraduate Students (Taught)

  Name Degree Primary Supervisor
Diarmuid Kilcommins BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING Y
Fionn Lillis MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y
Fiachra Mac Lochlainn MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y
Mark Finnegan MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y
Emma Ferran MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y
Diarmuid Kilcommins MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y

Recent Postgraduate Students

  Graduation Name Degree Primary Supervisor
2023 Cathal Healy MASTER OF ENGINEERING Y

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
4 Combustion Science and Engineering ME4101
5 Combustion Science and Engineering ME5171
2 Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics ME223

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country Description of Collaboration
Lee Murphy G-Frame Structures IRELAND
Emmet English Amplitude Acoustics - Acoustic services in Ireland IRELAND