Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Office: Bldg 63-Room 204
Phone: +966- 13 -860- 8399
Fax: +966-13-860 -2949 (ME Dept)
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran-KSA, 2012
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran-KSA, 2008
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Jordan, Amman-Jordan, 2004
Courses Taught
- ME 215 Material Science for mechanical engineers
- ME 217 Material Science
- ME 307 Machine Design I
- ME 308 Machine Design II
- ME 413 System Dynamics and Controls
- ME 482 Mechanical Vibrations
Research Areas
- Design and Manufacturing
- Friction Stir Welding and Processing
- Numerical Simulation of manufacturing Processes
- Vibration analysis and condition health monitoring of rotating machinery
- Dynamic Modeling of stationary and rotating structures
Representative Publications
- Fadi Al-Badour, Nesar Merah, Abdelrahman Shuaib, and Abdelaziz Bazoune “Experimental Investigation of Friction Stir Seal Welding of Tube-Tubesheet” Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, FEBRUARY 2015, Vol. 137/ 011402
- Fadi Al-Badour, Nesar Merah, Abdelrahman Shuaib, and Abdelaziz Bazoune "Thermo-mechanical Finite Element Model of Friction Stir Welding of Dissimilar Alloys" International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2014): 1-11.
- Fadi Al-Badour, Nesar Merah, Abdelrahman Shuaib, and Abdelaziz Bazoune, "Coupled Eulerian Lagrangian finite element modeling of friction stir welding processes", Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 213(8), 2013, 1433–1439.
- Fadi Al-Badour , Nesar Merah , Abdelrahman Shuaib , Abdelaziz Bazoune “Experimental And Finite Element Modeling Of Friction Stir Seal Welding of Tube-Tubesheet Joint” Advanced Materials Research Vol. 445 (2012) pp 771-776.
- F. Al-Badour, M.Sunar, L.Cheded “Vibration analysis of rotating machinery using time–frequency analysis and wavelet techniques” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 25 (2011) 2083–2101.
