Muhammad Ahmed Elsayed Zayed

Assistant Professor at Structural Engineering

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

With over 15 years of combined experience in engineering consultancy and research, Dr. Zayed's combines PhD-level expertise with professional engineering skills to meet critical project specifications and requirements. He specializes in leading and managing the structural and geotechnical engineering aspects for foundation design of major energy projects as well as tall buildings, working with monopiles and jacket substructures for offshore platforms, shallow and deep foundations as well as geotechnical site-specific interpretation.

Muhammad earned his PhD in Structural Engineering (Geotechnical focus) from University of California, where he conducted a variety of research both experimentally and numerically. His doctoral dissertation primarily focused on dynamic soil-foundation-interaction for offshore structures, and liquefaction-induced lateral spreading. He authored and co-authored more than a dozen scientific articles. An active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and its Geo-Institute, he holds Professional Engineer (PE) practice licenses in several jurisdictions, including California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

During his career, Dr. Zayed has taught various geotechnical engineering and foundation design classes, and played a major role in many projects across Egypt, USA, and Japan.

Awards

- The 2018 International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Foundation Grant.
- Recipient of the 2018 ISSMGE Bright Spark Lecture Award.
- Recipient of the 2019 ASCE Dams and Moore Graduate Fellowship.
- Recipient of the 2021 CalGeo Graduate Scholarship.

Books

- Experimental and Numerical Seismic Response of Offshore Wind Turbines Supported on Bucket Foundations (2022)
M Zayed
University of California, San Diego

- Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering and its Applications for Deep Foundations in Egypt (2014)
M Zayed
Ain Shams University, Cairo

Articles

- Pile response during liquefaction-induced lateral spreading: 1-g shake table tests with different ground inclination (2018)
A Ebeido, A Elgamal, M Zayed
Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, Volume 2, 1335-1339

- Shake table testing: A high-resolution vertical accelerometer array for tracking shear wave velocity (2021)
M Zayed, A Ebeido, A Prabhakaran, K Kim, Z Qiu, A Elgamal
Geotechnical Testing Journal 44 (4), 1097-1118

- Polymer Injection and Liquefaction-Induced Foundation Settlement: a Shake Table Test Investigation (2020)
A Prabhakaran, K Kim, MJ Orang, Z Qiu, A Ebeido, M Zayed, R Boushehri
Geo-Congress 2020: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Special Topics

- Development and performance of a laminar container for seismic centrifuge modeling (2017)
M Zayed, L Luo, K Kim, J McCartney, A Elgamal
The 3rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

- Shake table testing and computational framework for seismic response of utility-scale bucket foundation offshore wind turbines (2023)
M Zayed, K Kim, A Prabhakaran, A Elgamal
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 171, 107939

- Large Scale Geotechnical Shake Table Testing at the University of California San Diego (2018)
A Ebeido, M Zayed, K Kyungtae, P Wilson, A Elgamal
International Congress and Exhibition "Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology"

- Large Scale Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading Shake Table Testing at the University of California San Diego (2019)
A Ebeido, A Elgamal, M Zayed
Geo-Congress 2019

- Polymer injection and liquefaction-induced foundation settlement mitigation: a shake table testing investigation (2023)
A Prabhakaran, K Kim, M Jahed Orang, Z Qiu, A Ebeido, M Zayed, ...
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 149 (8), 04023054

- Seismic response of suction caisson in large-scale shake table test (2019)
M Zayed, K Kim, A Elgamal
VII International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Roma (Italy), 17-19 June 2019

- Asymmetric input motion for accumulation of lateral ground deformation in laminar container shake table testing (2021)
M Zayed, A Ebeido, A Prabhakaran, Z Qiu, A Elgamal
Canadian Geotechnical Journal 58 (2), 210-223

- Response of A 850 KW Wind Turbine Including Soil-Structure Interaction During Seismic Excitation (2018)
M Zayed, A Elgamal, G Saudi, AK Abd el-aal, K El-Zahaby
International Congress and Exhibition "Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology"

- Shake Table Testing for Suction Bucket Foundation Wind Turbine Seismic Response (2019)
M Zayed, K Kim, A Elgamal
ISOPE International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-I-19-571

- Application of ultimate limit state design for axially loaded single piles in Egyptian geotechnical practice (2017)
YM El-Mossallamy, MM Tawfik, M Zayed
HBRC journal 13 (2), 181-189

Publications

Lessons Learned from GeoLegends: Tien Wu, PhD, Hon. M. ASCE (2017)
T Baser, Y Zheng, M Zayed
Geo-Strata Magazine — Geo Institute of ASCE 21 (4), 24