Dr Amer Hameed
Head of Group
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: a.hameed@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0) 1793 785814
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Amer is responsible for Weapon Systems and Engineering Dynamics Group. Amer has excellent wide-ranging skills in planning, designing, organising and project management, in both the defence (weapon and automotive) and academic sectors. He specialises in Defence Technology, with expertise in both direct and indirect fire gun systems. He is dedicated to work and committed to deliver and demonstrated good leadership qualities, through management skills.
Research Interests At the systems level, Amer has conducted performance and comparative analysis of weapon systems, requirement capturing and their verification. At the design level, Amer can skilfully use CAD modelling, finite element and multi-body dynamic simulation analysis, able to conduct hand calculations and use finite element analysis tool for design and optimisation of components. Research and Development work has included: research on modelling of blast mine explosion, protection of AFVs against mine blast, simulation of tracks using ADAMS software. This work also involves the calculation of component properties such as stiffness and damping for effective design of tracks.
Currently, he is supervising a comparison of hydraulic verses swage autofrettage of gun barrels, and provided consultancy in this area. Other work has included FE modelling of optical fibre sensors in health monitoring of composite beams (ICE, enabled) and Track Rig Commissioning, sponsored by QinetiQ. He was awarded an EPSRC research grant as co-investigator on Structural Integrity Monitoring in Harsh Industrial Environments (2001).
Assessor and Referee to IMechE Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Science.
Consultancy
Consultancy has included work on; use of autofrettage methods in automotive industry for high performance diesel inlet manifold and flow lines; feasibility assessment of a long range electric gun shell; FE analysis of interference fit in a motorbike carburettor; development of Weapon Assessment tool; Lethality of indirect fire shells; quantitative risk assessment of mine fields. He has also planned and organised two conferences on gun barrels: “Gun Tubes 2002 & Gun Tube 2005”. Both the conferences were sponsored by ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Division, US Army DoD, Benett Labs, US and IMechE UK.
He is a member of the FRES Rainbow Team (Turret Integration Group).
Academic Activities
Module Leader: Systems Engineering Life Cycle Processes. He is Assistant Course Academic Leader Gun Systems Design. He is a member of various teaching committees including the Gun System and Systems Engineering MSc courses.
Selected publications
Publications
A Novel Scheme for Computing Gun Barrel Temperature History and its Experimental Validation, Avanish Mishra, Amer Hameed and Bryan Lawton, Submitted to ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology. Paper under review, Paper ref: PVT-09-1011- accepted and under final revision
Transient Thermal Analysis of Mid Wall and External Cooling Methods For a 155 mm Gun Barrel, Avanish Mishra, Amer Hameed and Bryan Lawton, Submitted to ASME Journal of Heat Transfer - accepted and under final revision
Measurement and Modelling of Carbon Black Filled Rubber Components, P Allen, Amer Hameed and H Goyder, International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, Vol 3, No 4, pp 315-344, 2007. DOI: 10.1504/IJVSMT.2007.017118.
A Comparison of Methods for Predicting Residual Stresses in Strain-Hardening, Autofrettage Thick Cylinders, Including the Bauschinger Effect, M C Gibson, Amer Hameed, A P Parker, J G Hetherington, 2006, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol 128(2), pp. 217-222..
Fitting a High Performance Gun on a Lighter Platform, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 9, No 2, pp 5-14, July 2006.
Automotive Damper Model for use in Multi-body Dynamic Simulations, Paul Allen, Amer Hameed and Hugh Goyder, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D - Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol 220, No 9, pp 1221-1233. 2006, DOI: 10.1234/09544070JAU70321
Simulation of Plate Structure Subjected to Anti-Tank Mine, Adisak Showichen, Amer Hameed, M J Iremonger and J G Hetherington, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 8, No 1, pp 1-7, Mar 2006.
Design Trends in the development of Large Calibre Kinetic Energy Round, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 7, No 3, pp 9-16, Nov 2004.
Effect on Residual Stress Distribution in an Autofrettaged Thick-Walled Cylinder due to Machining of a Cross-Bore, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol 126, No 4, pp 497-503, Nov 2004. DOI:10.1115/1.1811111
Evaluating Numerical Approaches In Explosion Modelling using a Surface-Laid Mine, Darina Fiserova, Amer Hameed, T A Rose, J G Hetherington and Stanislav Procházka, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 7, No 2, July 2004.
Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Machining on the Depth of Yield, Maximum Firing Pressure and Residual Stress Profile in an Autofrettaged Gun Tube, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, Special edition of ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol 125, No 3, pp. 342-346, Aug 2003. DOI: 10.1115/1.1593081
Structural Integrity Monitoring of Concrete Structures via Optical Fibre Sensors and Sensors Protection Systems, G F Fernando, D Winter, J Tetlow, Amer Hameed, J Leng, R Barnes, G Mays, G Kister, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), Vol 2, No 2, pp. 123-135, Sage Publications, Jun 2003. DOI: 10.1177/1475921703002002004
Investigation of Strain Transfer to a Sensor Protection System Embedded in Concrete using Finite Element Analysis, Amer Hameed, G F Fernando, J Leng, R Barnes and J G Hetherington, Materials and Structures, Vol 35, pp 557-563, Nov 2002. DOI: 10.1007/BF02483124
Comparison of External Expansion in a Free-Cutting Mild Steel (EN1A) Thick Walled Cylinder (Gun Barrel) when Subjected to Internal Pressure, with Predictions from a Finite Element Simulated Model, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and Professor J G Hetherington, Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 2, Jul 1998.
Refereed Conference Publications
Assessment of Variable Thermophysical Properties on Temperature History of a 155 mm Gun Barrel Using ANSYS, Avanish Mishra, Amer Hameed and B Lawton, IEEE, ICM2CS09 to be held during Dec. 14-15, 2009 at JNU, New Delhi, India
Investigation of Residual Stress Development During Swage Autofrettage, using Finite Element Analysis, Michael C Gibson, Amer Hameed and John Hetherington, Proceedings of the ASME 2009 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2009), November 13-19 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA (IMECE2009-13289)
Assesement of Liquid Cooling Methods for Thermal Management of a 155 mm Gun Barrel, A. Misra, Amer Hameed, B Lawton, R Bhatnagar, 11th UK National Heat Transfer Conference, 6th to 8th Sept 2009.
A P Parker, M C Gibson, A Hameed, E Troiano, and J G Hetherington, Material Modelling for Autofrettage Stress Analysis including the Single Effective Material, PVP2008-61038, Proceedings of PVP2008, Chicago, 27-31 July, 2008.
Custom Material Modeling within FEA for use in Autofrettage Simulation, M C Gibson, Amer Hameed, J G Hetherington, A P Parker, PVP2007-26341, Proceedings of PVP2007, San Antonio, Texas, USA, July 22-26, 2007.
Fibre Optic Sensor Protection System and Structural Integrity Monitoring of Concrete Structure, J S Leng, R A Barnes, A Hameed, D Winter, J Tetlow, G C Mays and G F Fernando, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, pp 528-539, 7 March 2005, San Diego, CA, USA. DOI: 10.1117/12.598708
Structural Integrity Monitoring of Concrete Structures using Optical Fibre Sensors, R A Barnes, G F Fernando, Amer Hameed and G Kister, Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Global Construction 2005.
Experimental investigation of Acoustic modes in Baffled Heat Exchanger, H Goyder and Amer Hameed, International Engineering Congress and Exhibition, New Orleans, US, November 2002.
Effect of Machining on the Residual Stress Profile in an Autofrettaged Gun Tube’, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, GT2002 Conference. Keble College Oxford, 15-18 September 2002.
Shape-Memory Alloy Actuation of insect-like Flapping Wings, C M Friend, A Kaley and Amer Hameed, International Conference on Martensitic Transformations, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, 10-14 June 2002.
Effect on Residual Stress Distribution in an Autofrettaged Thick-Walled Cylinder due to Machining of a Cross-Bore’, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Vol 418, pp.1-6, 21-27 July 2001.
A Study of the Effect on Residual Stress Distribution in an Autofrettaged Thick-Walled Cylinder of Varying the Diameter of a Cross-Bore, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington. ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Vol 418, pp 7-11, 21-27 July 2001.
Thick-Walled Cylinder Design Optimisation, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Seattle, USA, PVP - Vol 406, pp 149-155, July 2000.
Recently Submitted
A Novel Scheme for Calculating Gun Barrel Temperature History using Finite Element Methods, Avanish Mishra, Amer Hameed and Bryan Lawton, submitted to Gun Tubes 2009 Conference, Cranfield University, DCMT, Shrivenham, UK, SN6 8LA, 5-8 April 09 - Conference postponed to 2011.
Implementing Realistic, Non-linear, Material Stress-strain Behaviour in ANSYS for the Autofrettage of Thick-walled Cylinders, M C Gibson, A Hameed and J G Hetherington, accepted for conference, to be published in the proceedings of GT2009, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 05-08 April, 2009. Conference postponed to 2011
An Investigation of the Mechanism of the Development of Residual Stresses during Swage Autofrettage, using Finite Element Analysis, M C Gibson, A Hameed and J G Hetherington, accepted for conference, to be published in the proceedings of GT2009, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 05-08 April, 2009. Conference postponed to 2011
Non-Refereed Conference Papers
Recent Research Work at Cranfield Defence and Security in the Area of both Explosive and Gun Ballistics, Amer Hameed, Chris Couldrick, Paul Hazell, Ian Horsfall, Stuart Dowling, Adam Zagorecki, Hugh Goyder, Clare Knock and John Hetherington, Aeroballistics Range Association Conference, 20-25 Sept 2009, Baltimore, USA.
A Novel Scheme For Computing Gun Barrel Temperature History And Its Experimental Validation, A Mishra, Amer Hameed and Bryan Lawton, Aeroballistics Range Association Conference, 20-25 Sept 2009, Baltimore, USA.
Effect on Residual Stresses in an Autofrettaged Thick-Walled Cylinder due to Internal and External Machining using Finite Element Method (assuming Real Material Characteristics), Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, 2nd Conference on Barrel Weapon Systems, Military Academy, Brno, Czech Republic, 20 -24 October 1997.
Comparison of Residual Stresses in a Gun Barrel due to the Process of Autofrettage (evaluated using Sach's method) with that of a simulated Autofrettaged model using the Finite Element, Amer Hameed, R D Brown and J G Hetherington, V European Indirect Fire Symposium, RMCS, 23-25 June 1998.
Current Research on Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles at Shrivenham, R. Zibikowski, C B Pedersen, Amer Hameed, C M Friend and P C Barton, AVT Symposium on Unmanned Vehicles for Aerial, Ground and Naval Military Operation, Ankara, Turkey, 9-13 October 2000.
Structural Integrity Monitoring of Concrete Structures using Optical Fibre Sensors, D Winter, J Tetlow, Amer Hameed, J Leng, R Barnes, G Kister, G Mays, J Talbot, and G F Fernando, First European Conference on Structural Integrity Monitoring, pp 615-622, Paris, 10-12 July, 2002.
Systematic Study of Simulated mine Explosion using AUTODYN, Darina Fiserova Amer Hameed and J G Hetherington, 6th Seminar, New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Czech Republic, 23-25 April 2003.
Improvements to Turret Gun Performance. Amer Hameed, Ground Combat Vehicle Conference, Focus Day, Andel's Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, 25 - 27 September 2007.
