Sayed Mohamed El-Sayed Mohamed Ahmed El-Araby
Professor at Structural Engineering
Career Information
Academic Information
Brief
Dr. Ahmed is a professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Ain Shams University of Engineering. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Ain Shams University, Egypt, in 2001. He has broad experience in geotechnical engineering in both academic and professional works. His main interests are soft-ground tunneling, deep excavations, and in-situ testing.
Awards
Honor degree for the B.Sc. (ranked the 3rd out of 200 student), Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1993
Egyptian Ministry of Education Scholarship for outstanding students in the General Secondary Certificate (ranked the 3rd out of about 250,000 students), 1988.
Books
Agaiby, S.W., Schulter, A., Horny, U., Döllmann, O. & Ahmed, S.M. "Integration of design and risk management in large soft-ground NATM tunnels", Foundation Engineering in the Face of Uncertainty, doi: 10.1061/9780784412763.050, pp. 661-679, 2013.
Articles
Sayed M. Ahmed & Shehab S. Agaiby. “Undrained shear strength assessment using piezocone and shear wave measurements.” Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering. Volume 174 Issue 2, April 2021, pp. 126-138.
Sayed M. Ahmed & Shehab S. Agaiby. “Assessment of Undrained Nonlinear Stiffness of Clays using Rigidity Index.” Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering. Volume 174 Issue 2, April 2021, pp. 139-147.
Noha El-Shamy, Sayed M. Ahmed, Mohamed A. Abdel-Motaal. "Seismic Response of Multi-Story Structure Strengthened with Micropiles." International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 2249-8958
Ahmed, Sayed M., and Shehab S. Agaiby. "Strength and stiffness characterization of clays using Atterberg limits." Transportation Geotechnics 25 (2020): 100420.
Sayed M Ahmed, Tamer M. Srour, Ahmed M. Fathy . “Numerical Analysis of Heave Reduction Using EPS Geofoam Inclusions.” IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE). Vol. 17. Issue 1. pp. 41-49. 2020.
Sayed M. Ahmed, Tamer M. Srour, Mohamed S. Belal. “Reduction of Earth Pressure for Non-Yielding Retaining Walls using EPS Geofoam.” International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research (IJSER). Vol. 11. Issue 1. pp. 1075-1083. 2020.
Ahmed, S. M. “Assessment of clay stiffness and strength parameters using index properties.” Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 10(3), 579-593. 2018.
Agaiby, S.W., Salem, A.M., and Ahmed, S.M. The first William Selim Hanna honor lecture from failure to success: lessons from geotechnical failures. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2(1): 35. doi:10.1007/s41062-017-0091-6. 2017.
Ahmed, S.M "Enhancing the CPT correlation with the small strain shear stiffness of sands." Ain Shams Engineering Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2016.08.010, In press, 2016
Ahmed, S. M., Agaiby, S.W. & Abdel-Rahman, A.H. . "A unified CPT–SPT correlation for non-crushable and crushable cohesionless soils." Ain Shams Engineering Journal 5.1 (2014): 63-73.
Ahmed, A.A. , Ali, A.E. , El-Sayed, S.M. & Nour El-Din, S.M. "Prediction of Ground Subsidence Associated with Construction of Greater Cairo Metro – Line 3." Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Scientific Bulletin, 38(3), pp. 75-94, 2003.
El-Sayed, S. M., and Ahmed, H. A. "Spatial stress-deformation analysis for installation of a diaphragm wall." Faculty of Engineering Scientific Bulletin, Ain Shams University 37(3), pp. 75-90, 2002.
Abdel-Rahman, A.H. & El-Sayed, S.M. "Recycling of Heterogeneous Fill Into Geotechnically-Stable Soils." Journal of the Egyptian Society of Geotechnical Engineering, 13(1), 2002
Abdel Rahman, A.H. & El-Sayed, S.M. "Building subsidence associated with cut-and-cover excavations in alluvial soils." Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Scientific Bulletin 37 (4),pp. 55-63, 2002.
Abdel Rahman, A.H. & El-Sayed, S.M. "Settlement trough associated with Diaphragm wall construction in Greater Cairo." Journal of the Egyptian Society of Geotechnical Engineering, 13(1), 2002.
Publications
- , " Undrained shear strength assessment using piezocone and shear wave measurements ", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 2021
- , " Assessment of undrained non-linear stiffness of clays using rigidity index ", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 2021
- , " Numerical Analysis of Heave Reduction Using EPS Geofoam Inclusions ", IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IOSR-JMCE), 2020
- , " Seismic Response of Multi-Story Structure Strengthened with Micropiles ", International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), 2020
- Ahmed, S.M., Agaiby, S.S., " Strength and Stiffness Characterization of Clays using Atterberg Limits ", Transportation Geotechnics, 2020
- , " Reduction of Earth Pressure for Non-Yielding Retaining Walls using EPS Geofoam ", International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 2020
- , " The Role of Constitutive Material Laws on the Jacking of Single Pile Into Sandy Soil Using Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Method ", GeoMEast 2019, 2019
- , " Pile Group Behaviour in Overconsolidated Clay under Compression Loads ", FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - Advances In Construction Techniques, 2018
- , " Prediction of shear wave velocities in soft to firm clays using consolidation tests ", 3rd International Conference on Geotechnical Research and Engineering (ICGRE’18), 2018
- Ahmed, S.M., " Assessment of clay stiffness and strength parameters using index properties ", Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2018
- , " Correlating the Shear Wave Velocity with the Cone Penetration Test ", 2nd World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE’17), 2017
- , " Deformations envelopes associated with deep pit excavations in Nile alluviums of the Greater Cairo ", The 9th Alexandria International Conference on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (AICSGE9), 2016
- , " Mitigation of Risks Associated with Deep Excavations: State of the Art Review ", Industry Academia Collaboration (IAC 2015), 2015
- , " Sand compressibility aspects related to CPT ", 3rd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2014
- , " A unified CPT–SPT correlation for non-crushable and crushable cohesionless soils ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2014
- , " Learning from Failures: A Geotechnical Perspective ", International Conference on Forensic Civil Engineering, 2016
- , " The first William Selim Hanna honor lecture. From failure to success: lessons from geotechnical failures ", GeoMEast 2017, 2017
- , " Determination of Sand Void Ratio Using CPT and SPT ", Geo-Congress 2019, 2019
- , " qc/N Ratio for Recently Deposited Crushable Soils ", International Symposium on Advances in Foundation Engineering (ISAFE 2013), 2013
- , " Learning from the Past: The Ancient Egyptians and Geotechnical Engineering ", 4th International Seminar on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, Bengaluru, India., 2013
- Agaiby, S.W., Schulter, A., Horny, U., Döllmann, O., Ahmed, S.M., " Integration of Design and Risk Management in Large Soft-Ground NATM Tunnels ", Foundation Engineering in the Face of Uncertainty - Geotechnical Special Publications (GSP) GSP 229 Honoring Fred H. Kulhawy, 2013
- , " Foundation Subsidence due to Trenching of Diaphragm Walls and Deep Braced Excavations in Alluvium Soils ", 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 2009
- , " Numerical analysis for deformational behaviour of different length piled raft in cohesive soils ", 12th International Colloquium on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, 2007
- , " Strength of Cement Bentonite Grouted Anchors in Sandy Soils ", 5th International Conference of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria University., 2003
- , " Prediction of Ground Subsidence Associated with Construction of Greater Cairo Metro – Line 3 ", Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Scientific Bulletin, 2003
- , " Building Subsidence Associated with Cut-and-Cover Excavations in Alluvial Soils ", Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Scientific Bulletin, 2002
- , " Spatial Stress-Deformation Analysis for Installation of a Diaphragm Wall ", Ain Shams University, Faculty of Engineering, Scientific Bulletin, 2002
- , " Recycling of Heterogeneous Fill Into Geotechnically-Stable Soils ", Journal of the Egyptian Society of Geotechnical Engineering,, 2002
- , " Settlement Trough Associated With Diaphragm Wall Construction in Greater Cairo ", Journal of the Egyptian Society of Geotechnical Engineering,, 2002
- , " Nonlinear Three-dimensional Modeling of Bentonite Slurry Tunneling ", 9th ICSGE, April, Cairo, Egypt, 2001
- , " Dynamic Interaction of Surface Machine Foundations under Vertical Harmonic Excitation ", Second Egyptian Conference on Earthquakes, Nov. 1-3, Aswan, Egypt., 1997
- , " Evolutionary Reliability-Based Tunneling Design Techniques ", 12th International Colloquium on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt., 2007
- , " Inverse Design of NATM Tunnels By Neural Networks ", 12th International Colloquium on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt., 2007
- , " Non-Deterministic Tunneling Analysis Using A.I. Based Techniques Genetic Programming vs. ANNs ", 12th International Colloquium on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt., 2007
- , " Towards Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering ", GeoMEast 2018, 2018
- M. S. Morsy, A. M. Elhanafy, S. S. Fathelbab, S. M. Ahmed, " Effect of oxidative ageing on stiffness improvement factor for HDPE and PET geogrids ", Geosynthetics International, 2024
- Sayed, S., Morsy, M.S., Ahmed, S.M., Elhanafy, A.M., " Comparison between uniaxial and pull-out tests setup for polyester and HDPE geogrids ", E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
- Alkhayat, A., Hassan, T., Ahmed, S.M., Moustafa, A., " Effect of Soil Structure Interaction on the Design of Tall Concrete Buildings ", Geotechnical Special Publication, 2023
- Edries, N.M., Al-Atroush, M.E., Rashed, A., Ahmed, S.M., " Estimation of the piled embankment critical height: a systematic review ", Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2023
- Sayed M. Ahmed, Shehab S. Agaiby, " Undrained shear strength assessment using piezocone and shear wave measurements ", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 2020
- , " Seismic Response of Multi-Story Structure Strengthened with Micropiles ", Regular, 2020
- Sayed M. Ahmed, Shehab S. Agaiby, " Assessment of Undrained Nonlinear Stiffness of Clays using Rigidity Index ", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 2020
- Abdelfattah, M., Abdel-Rahman, K., Ahmed, S.M., El-Mossallamy, Y.M., " The Role of Constitutive Material Laws on the Jacking of Single Pile Into Sandy Soil Using Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian Method ", Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, 2020
- Agaiby, S.W., Ahmed, S.M., " Determination of Sand Void Ratio Using CPT and SPT ", Geotechnical Special Publication, 2019
- Ahmed, S.M., " Prediction of shear wave velocities in soft to firm clays using consolidation tests ", World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, 2018
- , " Towards Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering ", Unpublished, 2018
- Ahmed, S.M., " Correlating the shear wave velocity with the cone penetration test ", 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Research and Engineering (ICGRE'17), 2017
- Ahmed, S.M., " Enhancing the CPT correlation with the small strain shear stiffness of sands ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2017
- Agaiby, S.W., Salem, A.M., Ahmed, S.M., " The first William Selim Hanna honor lecture from failure to success: lessons from geotechnical failures ", Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2017
- Ahmed, S.M., Agaiby, S.W., Abdel-Rahman, A.H., " A unified CPT-SPT correlation for non-crushable and crushable cohesionless soils ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2014
- , " Sand compressibility aspects related to CPT ", 3rd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT'14), 2014
- , " State-of-the-art report: Deformations associated with deep excavation and their effects on nearby structures ", , 2014
- Abdel-Rahman, A.H., El-Sayed, S.M., " Foundation subsidence due to trenching of diaphragm walls and deep braced excavations in alluvium soils ", 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2009), 2009
- , " Settlement trough associated with diaphragm wall construction in Greater Cairo ", Journal of the Egyptian Geotechnical Society, 2002
- , " Nonlinear three-dimensional modeling of bentonite slurry tunneling ", 9th International Colloquim on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, 2001