
Muhamad HusainiUniversity of Kuala Lumpur | unikl · Malaysian Spanish Institute
Muhamad Husaini
PhD.,Msc.,BEng Manufacturing USM
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Muhamad Husaini currently works at the Malaysian Spanish Institute, University of Kuala Lumpur. Muhamad does research in Energy. Their current project is 'Quantum modeling'
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June 2012 - present
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Malaysian plate number recognition (MPNR) systems have a wide range of uses, including traffic law enforcement and parking system administration. The MPNR system is non-intrusive and only requires plate number of a vehicle without any additional identification needed. The goal of this work is to create MPNR software that can be used offline. With a...
The corrosion inhibitive actions of a few potential organic molecules extracted from rice husk bio-oil, namely benzene-1,4-diol, 3-methyl-1,2-cyclopentanedione, and 2,6-dimethoxyphenol, were investigated using first-principle calculation. Adsorption of these molecules on the aluminium (111) plane was simulated to unravel the inhibitor-surface bondi...
Magnetic Induction Tomography (MIT) is a contactless and non-invasive method that is sensitive to the conductivity properties of an object. The application of the MIT in the biomedical field is in high demand, especially for brain monitoring and tumour imaging. However, the implementation of MIT for bone imaging application is not popular. In this...
Speech recognition technology is one of the quickly developing advanced technologies of engineering. It has various applications in different zones and offers potential points of interest. There is a correlation to pre-requirement for speech recognition and machine learning which is that grammar classification and a method for extraction phonemes f...
Nowadays, as people’s demands and lifestyles change the need for advancing the type of technology we use is high. Everything we used has been innovated to a better standard. Intelligent and autonomous vehicles are promising solutions to improve road safety, traffic problems, and passenger comfort in advanced driving assistant systems (ADAS). Such a...
In recent years, the research on magneto-rheological elastomer sandwich structures has increased due to the adjustable properties by varying the magnetic field. However, the study is mainly focused on the theoretical analysis of the magneto-rheological elastomers MRE sandwich plates. In this works, the numerical and experimental investigation on th...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) is a testing and analysing method that is used nowadays for evaluation properties, material, system, or structure for differences characteristic of surface defects without causing any damages on the analysed parts. The flaws on product surfaces caused by some fault in the production lane will downgrade the product qual...
This book contains the selected, peer-reviewed manuscripts presented at the Conference on Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology (COMET 2019), held at the University Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Spanish Institute (UniKL MSI), Kedah, Malaysia, from September 18 to 19, 2019. This event presented research being carried out in the field of mechanical,...
Guru menjadi kunci hadirnya kualitas yang baik pada bidang pendidikan. Di tangan para guru yang mumpuni, siswa-siswi bisa mengembangkan diri secara optimal. Untuk itu, selain redistribusi guru-guru unggul untuk pemerataan mutu sekolah di seluruh daerah, yang tak kalah penting ialah meningkatkan mutu seluruh guru yang ada. Dampak dari pandemi corona...
Rechargeable aluminum-ion batteries draw attention in the energy storage system because of their massive gravimetric and volumetric capacities at low cost due to high abundance of raw materials. However, the suitability of positive electrode materials remains a challenge in battery development. Bilayer graphene has unique characteristics and is exp...
The aluminium–air (Al-air) battery is one of the demanded batteries as it is safe and efficient to power up an electronic device. However, the corrosion behaviour due to the hydrogen gas released from the aluminium anodes is a critical issue that must be considered in the Al-air battery development. This paper is aimed to establish an Al-air batter...
Technology on active infrared thermography has been widely used in the field of non-destructive testing. The defects produce an uneven heat dissipation, and an infrared camera captures this thermal reaction. The phase image provides an outstanding invisible flaws description on sequences of images captured. During the data acquisition phase, the re...
Recycling cooking oils in daily life is a common thing to do for some people to reduce the costs. However, this habit will lead to an unhealthy lifestyle. Reheating oil undergoes a series of chemical changes such as oxidation and hydrolysis, which will produce some harmful substances that will generate lipid peroxidation that could possibly be dang...
Controlling the actuator in micro to microscale positioning is the challenge in the development of smart material actuator. The design of the existing commercial piezoelectric actuator is limited due to the material properties itself such as brittle which require special packaging and protection in order to avoid creep occurred. Magnetorheological...
Numerous security researchers have a growing interest in the vulnerabilities of the in-vehicle Controller Area Network (CAN) bus system to cyber-attacks. The adversaries can leverage these vulnerabilities in manipulating vehicle functions and harming the drivers’ safety. Some security mechanisms proposed for CAN bus in detecting anomalies have favo...
This book contains the selected and peer-reviewed manuscripts that were presented in the Conferences on Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology (COMET 2019), held at the University Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Spanish Institute (UniKL MSI), Kedah, Malaysia from September 18 to 19, 2019. The aim of COMET 2019 was to present current and on-going resea...
Aluminum-air (Al-air) battery becomes one of the demanding batteries to power up an electronic device in our daily life. However, the corrosion behaviour of aluminium anodes is a major issue that must be carefully considered in the Al-air battery. This study is aimed to develop an Al-air battery single cell model and to simulate the corrosion by us...
The demand for a long-lasting batteries for electric vehicle has increased throughout the years. The common rechargeable lithium-ion battery cannot fulfill this task. The Aluminum-air battery is an attractive candidate as it has a high power density. However, it has a high rate of corrosion on the anode electrode due to the aluminum reaction with t...
Aluminium-air battery have high energy density, for example 8100 Wh kg⁻¹ capable of replacing classical lithium based batteries. However, the presence of parasitic reactions during the discharge process causes reducing the lifetime of the aluminium-air battery. Organic inhibitors are able to prevent the parasitic reaction, but it is likely to effec...
With the emerging wireless technology integrated into modern vehicles, this introduces an enormous number of vulnerabilities for adversaries to compromise the vehicle internal system. Nonetheless, the attacks can be alleviated using anomaly detection mechanism which have been proven to be effective in monitoring and detecting attacks. In this paper...
Nowadays, quality assurance is important for companies that are manufacturing components for various uses especially in the automotive industries. However, the inspection systems for determining the quality of these components are usually done by human workers which sometimes lead to inconsistencies. In order to counter this issue, an image classif...
This paper presents an alternative inspection system for automotive components replacing the conventional way by using naked human eye and ultrasonic which are normally quiet time consuming. In order to solve the time consumption issue, we propose the thermography technique which has the capability to detect the internal defect in an efficient way...
The Lithium-ion battery has been widely used in the development of electric vehicles. However, awareness of battery safety has been encouraged to use aluminium based batteries. Therefore, in this study, an aluminium ion battery cell with 25 mm × 100 mm of diameter and height respectively was designed using the SolidWorks 2016 software. Then the alu...
Phenolic resin is a thermosetting polymer resin is that is known for its excellent thermal properties and chemical stability. Thus, it could be advantageous if it could be utilized in graphite polymer composites as the cathode in aluminium ion batteries. In this study, graphite polymer composites with 3 cm of diameter and 3 cm of thickness had been...
The aluminum-air battery receives more attention to applications in electronic mobile devices, transportation systems, and has a higher energy density than other metal-air batteries. However, the aluminum-air battery is still not widely commercialized due to unacceptably thermal issues. Hence, this study focuses on the development of an aluminum-ai...
The conventional electro-discharge machining (C-EDM) method with low material removal rate (MRR) and high electrode wear rate (EWR) results in high production costs. The C-EDM also suffers from inconsistent machined surface quality and the formation of micro cracks and craters on the machined surface. The objective of this article is to review the...
The defect graphite will change the electrochemical properties of the aluminium-ion batteries. However, the theoretical research on the defect-free graphite as cathode material for aluminium-ion batteries remain uncertain. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to develop the theoretical prediction of defect graphite to be used in the aluminium-...
There were 50 data sample obtained from industries in Malaysia that practice sustainable manufacturing. Input file is presented in matrix 4x50 and 1x50 matrix as target file. However, there is no suitable number of hidden neuron that can be applied for the neural network model with 4 inputs and 1 output. An experiment has been done to identify the...
Nanoparticle is hard to produce because the process is difficult, and the material amount is always insufficient. In conjunction, a high amount of cost will be used to produce nanoparticle. In addition, the current material to produce nanoparticle are expensive, hard to obtain and depleting. Hence, Aluminium oxide (Al2O3) was introduced to solve th...
A seal manufacture factory located in Ipoh, Perak produces two types of seal available in the factory which are metal and plastic seals. Due to manual assembly, human operator tends to get fatigue for doing repetitive task in one long shift. When this occurs, minor error such as misplace or wrong orientation of jaw will occur. Moreover the jaw some...
Magnetorheological fluid (MRF) actuator emerged in the last decade as a potential system to replace electro-hydraulic servo system in precision applications. MRF actuator was control using a valve which is regulated with magnetic field. Because of valve performance relate with flow characteristic inside the valve, knowledge about the flow behaviour...
The modern vehicles nowadays are managed by networked controllers. Most of the networks were designed with little concern about security which has recently motivated researchers to demonstrate various kinds of attacks against the system. In this paper, we discussed the vulnerabilities of the Controller Area Network (CAN) within in-vehicle communica...
Metal-air batteries are demanded in nowadays as a potential replacement of lithium based batteries in storage applications. Because of corrosion occur in metal electrode, this corrosion limited the performance lifetime of the metal-air batteries. The aims of this paper to evaluate the performance inhibition efficiency of phenol derivatives using qu...
In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation was used to simulate the dilution of undiluted crude oil (UCO) in a dilution tank of a palm oil mill. Fluid flow and mixing characteristics were examined. For mixing behavior, the mixing of dilution water and UCO occurred as soon as these fluids entered the dilution tank and the oil mass...
Polypropylene solid-state electrolytes are a material of solid electrolytes. The solid electrolytes were prepared by mixing a hydroxide solution and polypropylene. However, the electrolyte is very sensitive to the temperature change. Temperature is an essential factor in producing an optimal cheap solid-state electrolyte. This study aimed at determ...
Activated carbon is a type of carbon processed to have small and low volume pores that improve the surface area available for chemical reactions. Currently, the cost of activated carbon is inefficient and it is difficult to obtain activated carbon. Pithecellobium jiringa (Jering) is an organic material that is potentially used as raw material for a...
This paper presents a new computer numerical control (CNC). The revolution of a parallel kinematics machine (PKM) is reducing many problems in the manufacturing process from a theoretical and practical point of view. The experimental setup was developed to optimize the kinematics design of a 2 Degree of Freedom (2 DoF) planar parallel manipulator....
A Magnetorheological Elastomer (MRE) can be categorized as a smart material as it can respond when it is subjected to a magnetic field against itself. Shrinking and changing shape in MRE is due to the displacement of magnetic particle in the MRE matrix. However, the lack of understanding of the magnetic flow through magnetic particle in the elastom...
Large eddy simulation (LES) is used to study the flow around a simplified car model. The model consists of one bluff body slanted at the back-end. The LES was made at the Reynolds number of 0.51 × 10⁶ based on the height of the rear model and the inlet air velocity. Four variants of the model were studied, one where the simulation was conducted wit...
This paper presents a finite element analysis and a two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation for a magnetic peristaltic pump. In this paper, we attempted to summarise the most important results, and the purpose of this study is to establish ideas on magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in flows of a magnetorheological (MR) flu...
The gradual phasing-out of asbestos in motorcycles brake friction materials in many parts of the world has sparked the onset of extensive research and development into safer alternatives. As a result, the brake friction industry has seen the birth of different brake pads and shoes in the past decade, each with their own unique composition, yet perf...
A magneto-rheological (MR) based torque sensor is a device that transmits the torque by the cutting force of the MR fluid. The magneto-rheological fluids technology has been tested for many industrial applications, such as dampers, actuators, etc. A MR fluid is an intelligent material whose rheological characteristics change rapidly and can be easi...
A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores electrical energy in an electric field. The most famous capacitor current in use the market and industry is a ceramic capacitor. However, the dielectric material used in the industry nowadays involve high cost of material handling due to the fact that the dielectric material is...
This work is related to the kinetic modelling of mechanical milling. Many attempts have been made to simulate the kinetics of the milling process regarding ball velocity, friction force, and kinetic energy transferred during milling. The goal of this project is to fabricate a planetary ball mill jar and to defined the optimum parameter of planetary...
Encapsulation is one of the key processes in electronic packaging in order to protect the integrated circuit chips from environmental and mechanical damages. The most obvious choice for the encapsulation process is transfer moulding due to its capability to mould small parts with complex features. An electronic package that employs transfer mouldin...
This book presents recent developments in the areas of engineering and technology, focusing on experimental, numerical, and theoretical approaches. In the first part, the emphasis is on the emerging area of electromobility and its sub-disciplines, e.g. battery development, improved efficiency due to new designs and materials, and intelligent contro...
This volume contains many state-of-the-art applications for the development of new materials and technologies. It discusses computer-based engineering tools which are widely used and related to the simulation, evaluation of data and design processes. For example, modern joining technologies can be used to fabricate new compound or composite materia...
Security researches have proven that with the development of wireless connectivity’s technology in modern vehicles, it provides a substantial number of attack surface for attackers to compromise the entire vehicle system. However, the security threats can be alleviated effectively using security defense mechanism known as anomaly detection. Judging...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly popular for ocean exploration, industrial and military application. In particular, AUVs are becoming the attractive option for underwater search and survey operation as they are inexpensive compared to manned vehicles. Most of an AUV power is utilized by its propulsion system. Since th...
Chatter is a self-excited vibration in any machining processes which contributes to the system instability due to resonance and resulting in an inaccuracy in machining product. Due to demand for a high precision product, industries are nowadays moving towards implementing a tool monitoring system as a feedback. Currently, an electromagnetic sensor...
Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) is a smart material where its stiffness vary with presence of magnetic field.These special properties lead to various application as mechanical devise such as damper. Damping coefficient is criteria that need to consider while designing the device. This paper aims to study the effect of iron filling and elastomer...
Vision-based positioning systems are necessary due to the flexibility of their application. However, these systems are subject to noise in real operating conditions, especially in open environments, such as when in use with magnetorheological linear actuators. The vision-based positioning system should be fast and robust enough to encounter any dis...
The Ocean's living resources are a treasure for current and future generations of humankind. To sustain the valuable resources, the scientists start to develop unmanned underwater vehicles such as Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to seabed mapping and sampling. This underwater vehicle propelled by underwater t...
Nowadays magneto-rheological brakes has been introduce to overcome the drawback of conventional braking such as bulky, leakage and late build up pressure. Magnetic field is a main parameter need to be maximized in order to increase the efficiency of the brake. In MRF brake system the magnetic field directly affected by coil casing shapes. This pape...
Permanent joint such as blind rivet is most widely available and commonly used as auxiliary fastening elements. However, this assembly is permanent joint and need to avoid in design for disassembly. The objective of this research is to design and fabricate Interference Press-Fit Nut named INPRENUT. This novel product used as auxiliary fastener in m...
Fasteners are a type of relationship which can have a significant impact on the assembly time of the system. Interference Press-fit Aluminum Nut (INPRENUT) is press-fit fastener designed to reduce pre-assembly setup time, preassembly setup time, disassembly time, reduce sharp object hazard and improve the quality of the product developed. Therefore...
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are general-purpose techniques that can be used for nonlinear data-driven rainfall-runoff modeling. The fundamental issue to build a worthwhile model by means of ANNs is to recognize their structural features and the difficulties related to their construction. Without a doubt, the magnitude and quality of data, the...
In the current study, particle dispersion models of electrically conductive adhesives are developed through establishing the effects of 80 nm of silver (Ag) particles by employing van der Waals attraction energy, which acts as an energy of interaction of particles that are embedded in an epoxy solution system. The arrangement of the particle disper...
The early use of electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) provided an alternative to solder because of their several advantages, such as good electrical conductivity, low cost, extendability to fine pitch of interconnecting material and environmental friendliness. According to previous works, an optimal particle volume fraction became a major objec...
This paper presents the numerical investigation on multi blimp motion using three dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) approach. The cooperative flight configuration is important to reduce energy and improve the communication reliability within the group. Therefore, we examined the influence of drag and pressure force of cooperative config...
Representative volume element (RVE) is a technique to determine and predict the mechanical and physical effective properties of any random homogeneous or heterogeneous composite material models. An optimal size of RVE model became a major objective in order to be statistically equivalent to the real composite material. In this paper, possible appro...
The gradual phasing-out of asbestos in motorcycles brake friction materials in many parts of the world has sparked the onset of extensive research and development into safer alternatives. As a result, the brake friction industry has seen the birth of different brake pads and shoes in the past decade, each with their own unique composition, yet perf...
In modern application in automotive and aerospace engineering especially in defense vehicle, underwater vehicle and aircraft used Metal and Polymer Composites as the main materials in their invention parts. The joining strength may increase if the contacted surface area between two materials is also increase, in this case, the relationship of adhes...
Encapsulation is one of the key processes in electronic packaging and to protect the integrated circuit chips from environmental and mechanical damages. The most obvious choice for the encapsulation process is transfer moulding due to its capability to mould small parts with complex features. An electronic package that employs transfer moulding is...
The Ocean's living resources are a treasure for current and future generations of humankind. To sustain the resources, the scientists start to develop underwater vehicles such as ROV's and AUV's to seabed mapping and sampling. This underwater vehicle was propelled by underwater thrusters, which consists of electric motor and propeller fix at the sh...
Magnetorheological valve offers several advantages such as controllability, small in size and no moving part during operation. Thus, many researchers are working on developing an actuator based on this valve. However, this actuator required feedback system to improve it precision. This research is focusing on developing of machine vision based posi...
This paper conducts an analysis to obtain underwater thruster model using system identification approach. Performance of the developed model is further analysed by simulating it with PID control system. Four realization approaches are investigated whereby methods that carry the highest best fit value are chosen. Open loop and closed-loop control an...
Contractile thruster has become a trend for underwater robot propulsion because of its prospective and advantages. However, it is difficult to determine the performance of the generated jet pressure from the small thruster. Thus, in this research an analysis was carried out to observe the radial contraction effects on the jet pressure by applying b...
This paper proposed a novel design prototype of micro autonomous underwater vehicle (uAUV) which utilizes contractile water jet thruster instead of motor driven rotary blade propeller as the propulsion system to ensure it's stealthily characteristic. However, the nett thrust force could not be achieved if drag force have not been determined yet. In...
Tooling plays important role in ensuring precision of cold forging part. In this study, a modular approach was proposed in the design of the tooling in the production of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) propeller blade. Based on the conceptual design and optimization of the process sequence, the tooling was designed. As a result, the precision o...
This paper describes the design of a non rigid airship with the issue of scaling down the size. Nevertheless, the stabil lity and controllability of the airship are significant mainly due to drag and d buoyancy forces. These problems can be solved by introduci ing a proper structure design and reliable control algorithm. In this paper, wwe proposed...
Complexity in modeling an underwater thruster analytically, leave system identification approached a good option on developing accurate dynamic model for underwater thruster. Nonlinearity of the system due to fluid solid interaction such as, hydrodynamic force hitting the propeller blade make the system identification became a trivial task. This pa...
In recent times, impellers have been designed and modified to combine unique hydrodynamic features to overcome redundancy during mixing. One of such impeller is the mixed-flow impeller which displays a unique combination of radial and axial flow. In this paper, the flow characteristic of a mixed-flow impeller is reported. The main focus is to compa...
Geometrical error due to twist springback is one of major defects found in the near net or net shape part. It becomes more critical for complex part such as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) propeller blade. In this study, twist springback was quantified by comparing the blade and the die profiles obtained from commercial optical technique nam...
All busbar systems are subjected to electromagnetic forces which may cause permanent mechanical deformation and damage if large electromagnetic force occurs due to short-circuit current. Therefore, the predictions of electromagnetic force on the three-phase busbar system is very important, especially to analyze it effect on the mechanical structure...
Cooperative AUV performance and efficiency is directly related to its power efficiency. The power consumption for this type of underwater vehicle is influenced by its motion requirement since most of the power is spent for thruster propulsion. Drag force is known as the main parameter in resisting the body motion. In the present study, the behavior...