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2018-2019 ANNUAL REPORT

University of Ain Shams Student Chapter

of the Earthquake Engineering Research

Institute

Report Date: June 20, 2019

This report summarizes the membership and activities conducted by the University of Ain Shams Student

Chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute during the 2018-2019 academic year.

MISSION & GOALS

Vision: Promote ASU EERI student chapter as an essential platform for the earthquake researchers in

Egypt and The Middle East.

Mission: 1- Bridging the Gap between the practical and academic’s perspectives.

2- Create International Knowledge’s sharing channels of Earthquakes’ losses, risk and impact.

3- Advancing the research approach in our university.

4- Create a competitive, enthusiastic team to participate in the Annual Competition.

Objectives:

1- Hosting a series of academic seminars by International Professional Engineers and

Academics

2- Being an active Students Chapter in EERI’s offered activities and programs, and to get

benefit of the international gatherings of the students during the Annual meetings.

3- prepare a research out of the tests carried during the SDC’s preparation phase.

4- Recruit new generations every year to compete in the Seismic Design Competition.

MEMBERSHIP

The University of Ain Shams Student Chapter had a total of 23 members in 2018-2019.

OFFICERS

The Board consisted of the following members:



Role Name EERI Member Number

Email Student Status

President Ahmed Gamal 19701 [email protected] Undergraduate

student

Officer Mohamed Shaker 19471 [email protected] Graduate student

Officer Ahmed Younes 19639 [email protected]

Undergraduate student

Board meetings were held…

(Non-Tech Board meeting, August 20, 2018) (Tech Team meeting, Oct 10, 2018)

FACULTY & INDUSTRYADVISORS

List advisors with contact information and affiliation.

1- Dr. Ayman Mostafa [email protected]

2- Eng. Eslam Osama [email protected]

MEMBERS

A complete list of members is shown below.

Name EERI Member Number Email Student Status

Ahmed Gamal

19701 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Mohamed Shaker

19471 [email protected] Graduate student

Ahmed Younes 19639 [email protected]

Undergraduate student

Sandy Ashraf 29878 [email protected] Undergraduate student

mailto:[email protected]




Laila Amr [email protected] Undergraduate student

Hesham Fakhr [email protected] Undergraduate student

Ahmed Khaled [email protected] Undergraduate student

Nayera Sakr 29892 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Haidy Samir 29889 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Ahmed Bahaa 29891 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Nihal Mohamed 29888 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Marwan Tarek 29928 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Amr Fayed 29893 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Amr Magdy 29894 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Marwan Khashba 29929 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Mahmoud Saed [email protected] Undergraduate student

John Ayman 29931 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Shady Sobhy [email protected] Undergraduate student

Ahmed Osama [email protected] Undergraduate student

Mohamed Gamal [email protected] Undergraduate student

Nour Eldin [email protected] Undergraduate student

Olivia Ayman [email protected] Undergraduate student

Yousef Walid [email protected] Undergraduate student

Mina Fathi [email protected] Undergraduate student

Ahmed Okka 29891 [email protected] Undergraduate student

BUDGET & FINANCIALS

Sponsor Name/Organization Contact Person Amount

Ain Shams University Dr.Ayman Mostafa

([email protected])

6000$

Engineering Consulting Organization Dr.Maged Ghonima ([email protected])

1500$

ExxonMobil Malak Wahba ([email protected])

1500$

CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

REGULAR CHAPTER MEETINGS

We divided the Student Chapter Hierarchy into two teams, the non-tech team is responsible for the events,

activities, media outreach and fundraising. The tech team is responsible for qualifying and competing in the




Seismic Design Competition. And the tech used to make weekly meetings to stand on the latest updates on the

competition.

This year we have had around 15 meetings with both teams.

1- Non-Tech Team’s orientation day (September 15,2018)

(During the meeting we have explained the Student

Chapter’s vision, mission and objectives. Introduced the

teams to each other and discussed our goals for this year)

- Attendees:

The Student Chapter’ President and the committees’

members.

2- Tech Team’s weekly meeting (September

29, 2018.

(During these weekly meetings we discuss the

latest updates on the tasks given concerning the

competition’s model design and construction).

- Attendees:

The Team Captain and the committees’ members.



The Whole student Chapter Celebrating the proposal acceptance.

YMC VISIT by Dr. Maha Kenawy

On March 28. 2019, The Student Chapter was honored to host Dr. Maha Kenawy from YMC to spend the day

with us on the campus and to give us a lecture about her latest research on Advancing Computational

Modeling of Structures for Earthquake Engineering.

Dr. Maha also shared with us her experience of working on her research and with EERI for the past couple of

years and explained to us the current opportunities that EERI is offering.



Attendees: The Student Chapter’s members and

college’s students.

Resonance on Structural Integrity’s Seminar By Dr.Ahmed Mostafa

On March 25, 2019, Dr. Ahmed Mostafa generously accepted our invitation from Canada to give us a lecture

about his recent works.

Seminar’s Topic: The basic role of oil and gas producers is to ensure that all activities in their processing plants are

carried out in a safely manner. For that purpose, and as part of the structural integrity management program, regular

maintenance is always required to ensure that process operations are running smoothly. During the regular

maintenance inspections, there could be a need to replace and/or upgrade some mechanical components or

equipment. It is one of the crucial roles of the maintenance and operation teams in the processing facilities to make



sure that the newly replaced components and/or equipment are working in tandem with the existing structures. In

other words, there will be no resonance effect on the existing facility, which might cause work disruption. The scope

of work of this presentation is to identify the root cause analysis for the resonance phenomenon that occurred within

a structural steel facility in a local oil and gas plant in British Columbia, Canada after the installation of a new set of

motors and gear boxes for the air coolers structures during the regular maintenance of such equipment. Modal

dynamic analyses were implemented to predict the natural frequencies, mass participation factors and mode shapes

of the overall structural system to verify the resonance occurrence and structural solutions were provided and

inspected.

Attendees: 50+ Attendees from the University.



Seismic Analysis and Performance analysis by Dr.Ayman Abd-Elhamed

On Oct 29,2019, We hosted Dr.Ayman Abd-Elhamed from Matariya University to give us our first academic’s

lecture for 2018-2019 on Seismic Analysis and Performance analysis.

Seminar’s Content;

• Introduction

• Force-Based Design vs. Displacement-Based Design

• Performance-Based Design

• Methods For Earthquakes Analysis

• Force-Based Design :

- Equivalent Static Analysis (single mode method)

- Response Spectrum Analysis (multimode method)

- Non-Linear Time History Analysis

• Displacement-Based Design :

- Non-Linear Static Push-Over Analysis

• Overall Steps for Performance Assessment

• Target Displacement Calculation :

- Capacity Spectrum Methods (CSM)

- Displacement Coefficient Methods (DSM)

• Push-Over in Software



Attendees: 100+ Attendance (Students and Professional Engineers)



Youth League Forum – University of Ain Shams Student Chapter-

YLF is an organization that hosts an annual national competition among the Student Chapters in the Egyptian

Universities, each activity show case its event, goals and what they have achieved so far. And they compete

for fund packages offered by YLF.

More than 250 Student Chapter applied and only 50 were accepted and University of Ain Shams Student

Chapter phased the three selection Phases. The competition’ day was covered by most of the local news and

government representative, we got the 3rd rank in the technical category but we weren’t included in the

offered fund packages.

The competition was hold in parallel to the SDC’19 Competition in Vancouver, March 8, 2019.



University of Ain Shams Student Chapter’s Passing Experience

This year we wanted to pass our gained experience from EERI for the last two years to those who couldn’t be

part of the student chapter for this year and to the young children in schools, also we wanted to help them in

understanding the fundamental concepts of earthquakes, presented in a very simple and interactive’s way

1- University of Ain Shams Student Chapter’s Interns Team:

We recruited a team of interns from freshmen to sophomore to shadow the team member while they

are working on their Design and Construction’s tasks. Helping them to interact and ask questions about

the structure and architecture’s concepts that we’ve been developing through the year.

During the Structural session given to the intern’s team by the Structural head

January 27, 2019



2- Nutty Scientists Collaboration:

We collaborated with Nutty Scientists to help school kids (age from 7 to 13 years old ) in understanding

the basic fundamentals of earthquake by giving them a lecture and helping them to understand the

construction’ process and sequence of building the Model for the SDC.



SEISMIC DESIGN COMPETITION TEAM

We recruited the SDC team on August 29, 2019 and then we started working on the old rules and built 2

structure model prior to the competition.

After changing the rules for SDC’19 we had to change our structure and architecture approach for this year’s

model, however. We’ve submitted our proposal and it was accepted and then we went for a shaking table

test in Cairo University (we don’t have one yet in our university).

This year we have developed a more user-friendly construction’s techniques that helped us in constructing the

model itself in Vancouver instead of shipping it.

SDC’19 Results came much better than the previous year, Ranking the 5th in the Architecture and 6th in

Communication was better record for us and although we believe we could have achieved better than that

knowing that we got the second highest FABI; although our model didn’t survive GM2.

University of Ain Shams Student Chapter



Our Model Display in SDC’19.

SDC Team Members

A complete list of members is shown below.

Name EERI Member Number Email Role

Ahmed Gamal 19701 [email protected] Team President

Sandy Ashraf 29878 [email protected] Team Captain

Nayera Sakr 29892 [email protected] Structural Head

Haidy Samir 29889 [email protected] Architecture Head

Ahmed Okka 29891 [email protected] Construction Head

Amr Magdy 29894 [email protected] Structural Member

Marwan Khashba 29929 [email protected] Structural Member

Amr Fayed 29893 [email protected] Structural Member

Marwan Tarek 29828 [email protected] Architecture Member

Nihal Mohamed 29888 [email protected] Architecture Member

John Ayman 29931 [email protected] Construction Member



Ahmed Bahaa 29891 [email protected] Construction Member

SDC Team Financial Sponsors

The list of financial sponsors for the SDC team is the same for the Student Chapter.

Sponsor Name/Organization Contact Person Amount

Ain Shams University Dr.Ayman Mostafa

([email protected])

6000$

Engineering Consulting Organization Dr.Maged Ghonima ([email protected])

1500$

ExxonMobil Malak Wahba ([email protected])

1500$

Team results and lessons learned

SDC’19 Results:

5th in Architecture.

6th in Communication.

7th in FASC.

Construction: we constructed the 2 full models before the competition and built another one in Vancouver.

And we had one shaking table test on one of these models before traveling to the Competition.




Competition: we had invested a lot effort in this year’s competition and the results’ improvement from last year

reflect that. However, we believe we could have achieved more if we did take care of some small details.

our Model had zero violations unlike the last’s year we had many violations that took us out of the

competition’s overall ranking.



We survived GM1 but the model collapsed during GM2. ( the collapse was due to the rod housing’s design that

couldn’t hold GM2 ) And that was the same performance’s results we had in our first shaking table test back

home, and we did make some improvements to the structural design by strengthening the rod housing but we

didn’t get the chance to test it again on a shaking table before we travel ( it takes a lot of paper work to

undergo a shaking table test in another university as our university doesn’t have one).



Lessons Learned:

1- Change the presidential election cycle so that it

starts/ends just after the competition, so we get more

time to work on the competition.

2- Combine the Structural and the Construction team to

be working in one team through the year.

3- work with Cairo University to get an approval to allow us

to have 2/3 shaking table tests instead of just one.

4- innovate a new approach for the rod housing’s design.



ELECTION & ELECTION RESULTS

An election for officers for the 2019-2020 academic year was held in May 2019. The table below shows the new

officers appointed to the Chapter board who will take office on July 2019.

Role Name EERI Member Number

Email Student Status

President Sandy Ashraf 29878 [email protected] Undergraduate student

Team Captain

Ahmed Bahaa 29891 [email protected] Undergraduate student

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