Member, IASMiRT Advisory Board
Ayman Saudy is a Principal Engineer in the Civil/Structural group. He is responsible for providing consultation that supports design activities with GEH’s new plant development. Specifically, he provides the technical coordination for the plant layouts, seismic analysis, and construction drawings, utilizing engineering analysis and design tools for the development and detailed design of complete systems and building structures.
Ayman joined GEH in May 2024. He previously worked at Kinectrics Inc. as a Senior Technical Expert for 12 years. In that time, he primarily supported the engineering services and the seismic and high wind probabilistic risk assessments of CANDU plants. He, also, supported the seismic design of Hitachi GE Nuclear Energy’s proposal for ABWR in the UK. Prior to working with Kinectrics Inc., Ayman worked at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) for 19 years in various positions (from intermediate engineer to senior section head for Civil Engineering Analysis). In that time, he participated in the development and licensing of the various CANDU designs.
Ayman is the current Chair of the Technical Committee for Canadian Standard Association N289 series of standards on seismic design of nuclear power plants and facilities of which he has been a member since 2007. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers’ Task Committee on Dynamic Analysis of Nuclear Structure. He has published journal papers in Nuclear Engineering Design, and ASME’s Pressure Vessels Technology periodicals, and numerous papers in the biennial conferences of Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT). He is an Adjunct Industry Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
In addition, he participated various international benchmarking projects, e.g., OECD’s IRIS to assess behavior of concrete barriers resisting high-speed impact missiles at VTT facilities, Espoo, Finland; EDF’s SMART-2008 to assess seismic torsion effects & non-linear response of reinforced concrete nuclear structures at CEA’s lab, Saclay, France; and NUPEC/NRC’s Round Robin Pre-test analysis of ¼-scaled Prestressed Concrete Containment Vessel at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Ayman received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in engineering from McMaster University in 1992 and before that he received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Ain Shams University, Egypt.