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Overview

Ahmed Elgamal is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a significant focus on Civil and Structural Engineering. Additional subfields include Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Building and Construction.

Their research work emphasizes topics such as Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization. Other areas covered include Seismic Performance and Analysis, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions.

Ahmed Elgamal has contributed publications in various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Selected recent papers authored or jointly authored by Ahmed Elgamal include:

  • Large-Scale Shake Table Tests on a Shallow Foundation in Liquefiable Soils, 2020, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Liquefaction-induced lateral load on pile group of wharf system in a sloping stratum: A centrifuge shake-table investigation, 2021, Ocean Engineering
  • Aspects of bridge-ground seismic response and liquefaction-induced deformations, 2020, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Numerical simulations of LEAP centrifuge tests for seismic response of liquefiable sloping ground, 2020, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Seismic response of helical pile groups from shake table experiments, 2021, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Ahmed Elgamal frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Zhijian Qiu
  • Athul Prabhakaran
  • Kyungtae Kim
  • Ahmed Ebeido
  • Ramin Motamed

In addition to journal publications, Ahmed Elgamal has contributed to book publications through the Transportation Research Board eBooks. Two titles published in 2024 are:

  • Seismic Site Response Analysis with Pore Water Pressure Generation: Resources for Evaluation
  • Seismic Site Response Analysis with Pore Water Pressure Generation: Guidelines

Best Publications

  • Computational Model for Cyclic Mobility and Associated Shear Deformation

    Zhaohui Yang;Ahmed Elgamal;Ender Parra

  • Modeling of cyclic mobility in saturated cohesionless soils

    Ahmed Elgamal;Zhaohui Yang;Ender Parra;Ahmed Ragheb

  • Computational modeling of cyclic mobility and post-liquefaction site response

    Ahmed Elgamal;Zhaohui Yang;Ender Parra

  • Lotung Downhole Array. II: Evaluation of Soil Nonlinear Properties

    M. Zeghal;A.-W. Elgamal;H. T. Tang;J. C. Stepp

  • Analysis of Site Liquefaction Using Earthquake Records

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  • Stone columns as liquefaction countermeasure in non-plastic silty soils

    K Adalier;A Elgamal;J Meneses;J.I Baez

  • Mitigation of liquefaction and associated ground deformations by stone columns

    Korhan Adalier;Ahmed Elgamal

  • Three-Dimensional Seismic Response of Humboldt Bay Bridge-Foundation-Ground System

    Ahmed Elgamal;Linjun Yan;Zhaohui Yang;Joel P. Conte

  • Influence of Permeability on Liquefaction-Induced Shear Deformation

    Zhaohui Yang;Ahmed Elgamal

  • Mitigation of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Deformation in a Sloping Stratum: Three-dimensional Numerical Simulation

    Ahmed Elgamal;Jinchi Lu;Davide Forcellini

  • Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Earthquake Response Analysis of a Bridge-Foundation-Ground System

    Yuyi Zhang;Joel P. Conte;Zhaohui Yang;Ahmed Elgamal

  • VERTICAL EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION RECORDS: AN OVERVIEW

    Ahmed Elgamal;Liangcai He

  • OpenSees Soil Models and Solid- Fluid Fully Coupled Elements User's Manual

    Zhaohui Yang;Jinchi Lu;Ahmed Elgamal

  • Sensor Network for Structural Health Monitoring of a Highway Bridge

    Michael Fraser;Ahmed Elgamal;Xianfei He;Joel P. Conte

  • Experimental and Numerical Seismic Response of a 65 kW Wind Turbine

    Ian Prowell;Marc Veletzos;Ahmed Elgamal;José Restrepo

  • Lotung Downhole Array. I: Evaluation of Site Dynamic Properties

    A.-W. Elgamal;M. Zeghal;H. T. Tang;J. C. Stepp

  • Foundation Liquefaction Countermeasures for Earth Embankments

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  • Dynamic Response of Saturated Dense Sand in Laminated Centrifuge Container

    Ahmed Elgamal;Zhaohui Yang;Tao Lai;Bruce L. Kutter

  • Analysis of Site Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading Using Centrifuge Testing Records

    Ahmedw. Elgamal;Mourad Zeghal;Victor Taboada;Ricardo Dobry

  • International Benchmark on Numerical Simulations for 1D, Nonlinear Site Response (PRENOLIN): Verification Phase Based on Canonical Cases

    Julie Régnier;Luis Fabian Bonilla;Pierre Yves Bard;Etienne Bertrand

  • Dynamic Testing of Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge

    Joel P. Conte;Xianfei He;Babak Moaveni;Sami F. Masri

  • System Identification of Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge Using Dynamic Field Test Data

    Xianfei He;Babak Moaveni;Joel P. Conte;Ahmed Elgamal

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel P. Conte
Joel P. Conte University of California, San Diego
Ricardo Dobry
Ricardo Dobry Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tarek Abdoun
Tarek Abdoun Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sami F. Masri
Sami F. Masri University of Southern California
Kincho H. Law
Kincho H. Law Stanford University
Ross W. Boulanger
Ross W. Boulanger University of California, Davis
Chia-Ming Uang
Chia-Ming Uang University of California, San Diego
Kohji Tokimatsu
Kohji Tokimatsu Tokyo Institute of Technology
Bruce L. Kutter
Bruce L. Kutter University of California, Davis
Jason Jonkman
Jason Jonkman National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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