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מג'די גזאל

מג'די גזאל

Education

  • 2022 – Ph.D. (direct track), Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel
  • 2015 – B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel

Research Interests

  • Acoustics, Structural Vibrations, and their Interaction (Vibro-Acoustics)
  • Acoustic Metamaterials
  • Topological Acoustics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Wave Propagation

Guest Appointments

  • 2023 – 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2022 – 2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion

Honors and Awards

  • The Council of Higher Education (CHE-VATAT), Postdoctoral fellowship for academic excellence (2023-2025)
  • David and Olga Pnueli award for excellent Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T. (2022)
  • Sandor Szego Award for Excellence in Teaching, Permanent Excellent TA (4x), Technion – I.I.T. (2019-2022)
  • Technion Graduate School Scholarship for Traveling Students (2018-2019)
  • The Neubauer Doctoral Fellowship Fund for Excellent Minority Students (2017-2021)
  • The Council for Higher Education (CHE-VATAT), Scholarship Fund for Excellent Masters (2015-2017)
  • NAM Excellence Program (an acronym in Hebrew for Outstanding Arab Youth), Technion – I.I.T. (2011-2015)

Selected Publications

  • M. O. Gzal, L. A. Bergman, K. H. Matlack, A. F. Vakakis, “Low-Frequency Sub-Bragg Phenomena in Multilayered Vibroacoustic Metamaterials”. Wave Motion (2025).
  • M. O. Gzal, J. R. Tempelman, K. H. Matlack, A. F. Vakakis, “Subwavelength topological interface modes in a multilayered vibroacoustic metamaterial”. Frontiers in Acoustics 2:1489401 (2024).
  • M. O. Gzal, O. V. Gendelman, L. A. Bergman, A. F. Vakakis, “Enhanced seismic mitigation through energy management using nonlinear energy sinks with clearance–contacts”. Nonlinear Dyn. (2024).
  • M. O. Gzal, O. V. Gendelman, L. A. Bergman, A. F. Vakakis, “How internal vibro-impact nonlinearities yield enhanced vibration mitigation”. Nonlinear Dyn. 112, 17683–17708 (2024).
  • M. Gzal, A. F. Vakakis, O. V. Gendelman, “Vibroacoustics of a membrane-finite cavity resonator: Traditional and alternative approaches for analysis”. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 573, 118214 (2024).
  • M. Gzal, V. Kislovsky, Y. Starosvetsky. “Emergence of relaxation beat-waves in genuinely nonlinear Klein-Gordon chain with bi-harmonic parametric excitation”. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 189, 115692 (2024).
  • M. Gzal, V. Kislovsky, Y. Starosvetsky. “Analysis of the response of damped and parametrically driven, strongly anharmonic Klein-Gordon chain-Part 2: beat-waves”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 173, 113726, (2023).
  • M. Gzal, V. Kislovsky, A. Hasan, Y. Starosvetsky. “Analysis of the response of damped and parametrically driven, strongly anharmonic Klein-Gordon chain-Part 1: Phase locked traveling breathers”. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 168, 113026, (2023).
  • M. Gzal, J. E. Carrion, M. A. Al-Shudeifat, B. F. Spencer Jr, J. P. Conte, A. F. Vakakis, L. A. Bergman, O. V. Gendelman, “Seismic mitigation of a benchmark twenty-floor steel structure based on intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET)”. Engineering Structures, 283, 115868 (2023).
  • M. Gzal, L. A. Bergman, A. F. Vakakis and O. V. Gendelman, “Extreme intermodal energy transfers through vibro-impacts for highly effective and rapid blast mitigation”. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 103 (2021).
  • M. Gzal, B. Fang, A. F. Vakakis, L. A. Bergman, O. V. Gendelman, “Rapid non-resonant intermodal targeted energy transfer (IMTET) caused by vibro-impact nonlinearity”. Nonlinear Dyn 101, 2087–2106 (2020).
  • M. Gzal and O. V. Gendelman, “Edge states and frequency response in nonlinear forced-damped model of valve spring”. Nonlinear Dyn 99, 661–678 (2020).
  • M. Gzal, M. Groper and O. V. Gendelman, “Analytical, experimental and finite element analysis of elliptical cross-section helical spring with small helix angle under static load”. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 130, 476-486 (2017).

תחומי מחקר

  • אקוסטיקה, תנודות מבניות ואינטראקציה ביניהן (ויברו-אקוסטיקה)
  • מטא-חומרים אקוסטיים
  • אקוסטיקה טופולוגית
  • דינמיקה לא-ליניארית
  • התפשטות גלים
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