B.Sc. 1966 (Mechanical Eng.); M.Sc. 1969 (Mechanics); D.Sc. 1973, (Mechanics, Technion)
Dr. Galili joined the Technion in 1972 as a faculty member of the Department of Mechanics. His main interest in mechanics and biomedical engineering changed later to applied mechanics in agricultural engineering, when he joined the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering in 1975. Teaching topics included undergraduate and graduate courses in Statics, Strength of Materials, Dynamics, Vibrations, Rheology, Vehicle Dynamics, and Modeling and Analysis of Agricultural Machinery Systems.
Research interests
Modeling and analysis of agricultural machinery systems, including mechanical harvesting of fruits and vegetables, conveying, processing, solid-liquid separation and impact separation of agricultural products.
Multidegree of freedom mechanical systems, off-road vehicles, man-seat-vehicle interaction and ride quality evaluation, vibration isolation and non-linear dampers.
Signal analysis, non-destructive acoustic and ultrasonic testing of fruits and vegetables, firmness sorting of fruit and vegetables based on piezoelectric sensor.
Selected publications
Shmulevich, I., N. Galili and O. Cohen. 1992. "Two-dimensional model of a multi-jointed mobile truss system". Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 7, 71-89.
B. and N. Galili. 1992. "Motion analysis of flat particles on a round inertial screen". Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research (51: 113-128.
Galili, N. and J. W. Goodrum. 1993. "Impact shelling of hard-cooked eggs". Transactions of the ASAE, Vol. 36( 3): 807-810.
Rubinstein, D. and N. Galili. 1994. "REKEM - a design-oriented simulation program for off-road track vehicles". Journal of Terramechanics, Vol. 31 No. 5: 329-352.
Galili, N., A. Mizrach and G. Rosenhouse. 1993. "Ultrasonic testing of whole fruit for nondestructive quality evaluation". ASAE Paper No. 936026, 10 p.
Galili, N., A. Mizrach and G. Rosenhouse. 1993. "Ultrasonic Technique for Fruit and Vegetable Quality Evaluation". Proceedings of The IV International Symposium on Fruit, Nut, and vegetable Production Engineering, Valecia-Zaragoza (Spain), March.
Galili, N. and H. Philosof. 1995. "Prediction of seated man response to whole-body vibrations and off-road quality evaluation". Technion I.I.T., February, 136 p.
Shmulevich, I., N. Galili and D. Rosenfeld. 1996. "Detection of fruit firmness by frequency analysis". TRANSACTIONS of the ASAE, 39(3), 1047-1055.
Galili, N. and J. De Baerdemaeker. 1996."Performance of acoustic test methods for quality evaluation of agricultural products". Proceedins of ISMA 21: Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference, Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 1959-1973.
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Naftali Galili, Professor