Dr. Habib Benabdallah B.Ing., M.Sc.A., Ph.D., P.Eng. Professor

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Office: SB3118

Telephone: 613-541-6000 ext 6382

Fax: (613) 542-8612

E-mail: benabdallah-h@rmc.ca

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Royal Military College of Canada

PO Box 17000, Station Forces

Kingston, Ontario CANADA

K7K 7B4

Brief History

M.Sc.A. (Chemical Engineering) - École Polytechnique de Montréal (1983)

Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) - École Polytechnique de Montréal (1987)

Specializations and Research Interests

Tribology

Tribology is defined as the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion. It covers the study of friction, wear, lubrication and contact mechanics. The word tribology is based on the Greek word tribos, meaning rubbing.

Dr. Benabdallah's main research interests are in the area of friction and wear of advanced materials, specifically in the following topics:

  • Analysis of friction and wear mechanisms: case of dry contact and reciprocating motion.
  • Friction and wear behavior of new materials including high performance plastics and ceramics.
  • Coated sliders.
  • Wear modeling using FEM.
  • Measurements of the real area of contact.
  • Fatigue phenomenon arising from variable contact stresses during reciprocating movement.
  • Acoustic emissions from contact region between surfaces in relative motion and its relationship with friction behaviours.
  • Static friction.
  • Solid lubricants containing contaminants.
  • Simulation of friction arising from the dynamic contact between the endpoint of a robot and a surface.

The lab contains many versatile testing rigs (tribometers) equipped with modern sensors that allow measurement of friction, wear, temperature and acoustic emissions in real time. Reciprocating motion as well as continuous can be simulated for a wide range contact geometries under controlled environment of temperature humidity and lubrication.

recipricator

tribometer1

tribometer2

twodofrobot

Small Depth Indentation of Plastic Materials

Effects of temperature, rate of indentation, and shape of sharp indenter on the small depth indentation resistance of plastic materials.

Current and Recent Teaching Duties

Courses taught at RMC:

ME549

Tribology

AE537

Aircraft Structures and Materials

GMF431

Analyse des contraintes

GMF331

Résistance des matériaux

GMF333

Métallurgie et matériaux

GMF301

Éléments des machines

GMF303

Principes du design en ingénierie

Courses taught at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario):

CIVL 220 Statics and Solid Mechanics
MECH 321 Solid Mechanics II

Courses taught at École Polytechnique de Montréal (Montréal, Québec):

ING1040 Introduction au génie et aux projets d'ingénierie
2.322 Méthodologie du design
2.338 Matières plastiques
2.462 Projet de design avec l'industrie I

Publications