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Dr Jayantha Kodikara

Title: Senior Lecturer

Contact Information:

E-mail:jayantha.kodikara@eng.monash.edu.au
Phone:+61 3 9905 4963
Fax:+61 3 9905 4944
Room:139
Building:60
Campus:Clayton

Qualifications:

  • BSc (Engineering), 1st Class Honours, Peradeniya, 1983
  • PhD (Monash), 1983

    • Research:

  • Unsaturated flow and material behaviour of reactive soils and pavement materials
  • Shrinkage, creep and unsaturated flow behaviour of cemented materials
  • Desiccation cracking of soils and cemented materials
  • Soil-atmosphere interaction and solute movement
  • Stabilisation of soils and crushed rocks with cementitious and polymeric additives
  • Landfill cover and liner design
  • Leaching and fixation of contaminants in porous materials
  • Prediction of pavement deterioration due to traffic and environmental loadings
  • Active lateral loading of piles in soft soils and jointed rocks
  • Passive lateral loading (loading due to ground movement) of piles in soft soils and jointed rocks
  • Shear Behaviour of rough joints and interfaces
  • Side shear resistance development of piles in rock and soils
  • Behaviour of tapered piles in soils and rock
  • Numerical modelling using finite element, finite difference and particle flow methods

    • Publications:

    Books and Journal Publications (key publications)

    Soil and Rock Engineering and Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis

  • Kodikara, J.K. and Moore, I.D. (1992). Nonlinear interaction of solids with rigid surfaces. Computers and Structures., Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 85-91.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Moore, I.D. (1993). Analysis of tapered pile elastic-plastic ground. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 119, No. 4, pp. 675-693.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Moore, I.D. (1993). A general interaction analysis for large deformations., International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 36, pp. 2836-2876.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Johnston, I.W. (1994). Shear behaviour of irregular triangular rock-concrete joints. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 313-322.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Johnston, I.W. (1994). Analysis of compressible axially loaded piles in rock, International Journal for Analytical and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 18, 427-437.
  • Kodikara, J.K., Barbour, S.L. and Fredlund, D.G. (1999). An idealised framework for the analysis of cohesive soils undergoing desiccation: Discussion, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 34, pp. 1112-1114.
  • Kodikara, J.K., Barbour, S.L. and Fredlund, D.G. (2002). Structure development in surficial heavy clay soils: A synthesis of mechanisms, Australian Geomechanics, Vol. 37, No.3, pp. 25-40.
  • Nahlawi, H., Chakrabarti, S. and Kodikara, J.K. (2004). A direct tensile testing method for unsaturated geomaterials, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASCE, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 1-6.
  • Kodikara, J.K., Nahlawi and Bouazza, A. (2004). Modelling of curling in desiccating clay, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 41, pp. 560-566.

    Geoenvironmental Engineering

  • Bouazza, M., Kodikara, J.K. and Parker, R. (1997). GeoEnvironment '97, Editors, Proceedings First ANZ Conference on Environmental Geomechanics, Balkema, Netherlands.
  • Kodikara, J.K. (2000). Analysis of tension development in geomembranes placed on landfill slopes, Geotextiles and Membranes, Vol. 18, pp. 47-61.
  • Mudd, G. and Kodikara, J.K. (2000). Field studies of the leachability of brown coal ash, Journal of Hazardous Waste Materials, Vol. 76, pp. 159-192.
  • Rahman, F., Kodikara, J.K. and Bouazza, A.B. (2001). Compatibility of some compacted Victorian soils with organic chemicals and waste leachates, Australian Geomechanics, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 43-58.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Rahman, F. (2002). Moisture content and hydraulic conductivity relations for compacted clay, Civil Engineering Transactions, IEAust., Vol. CE43, pp. 13-18.
  • Kodikara, J.K., Rahman, F. and Barbour, S.L. (2002). Towards a more rational apporach to chemical compatibility testing, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 597-607.
  • Bouazza, M. Kodikara, J.K. and Parker, R. (2000). On the use of sand washing tailings for cut off walls for waste containment, Geotechnics for High Water Content Materials, STP 1374, ASCE, pp. 293-306.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Rahman, F. (2002). Effects of specimen consolidation on the laboratory hydraulic conductivity measurement, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 908-923.
  • Mudd, G., Weaver, T and Kodikara, J.K. Environmental Geochemistry of leachate from aged brown coal ash, Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE, (in press).

    Pavement Engineering

  • Chakrabati, S., Kodikara, J.K and Pardo, L. (2001). Overview of Pavement Performance in Australia, Road Transport and Research, Road Transport and Research, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 3-16.
  • Chakrabarti, S. and Kodikara, J.K. (2003). Strength, shrinkage and capillary rise properties of cementitiously stabilised crushed basaltic rock, Transportation Research Record, USA, No. 1819, Vol. 2, pp. 18-26.
  • Chakrabarti, S. and Kodikara, J.K. (2004). Laboratory method for assessing shrinkage cracking potential in stabilised materials, Proc. of the Fifth International RILEM Conference, Edited by C. Petit, I.L. Al-Qadi and A. Millen, pp. 605-610.
  • Lee, K.Y., Kodikara, J.K. and Bouazza, A. (2004). Modelling and laboratory assessment of capillary rise in stabilised pavement materials, Transportation Research Record, USA (in press).

    Education

  • Kodikara, J.K. (2000). The use of simple models for undergraduate teaching of geomechanics, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Education and Training, Sinaia, Romania, I. Monoliu, I. Antonescu and N. Radulescu (eds.), A. A. Balkema, pp. 343-348.
  • Kodikara, J.K. and Seidel, J. (2000). New approaches for geotechnical teaching, GeoEng 2000 Conference, Melbourne, November 2000, CD Rom Publication.

    • Short Resume:

    Dr Jayantha Kodikara’s expertise is in the areas of Geotechnical, Geoenvironmental and Pavement Engineering. He received his BSc (Eng) degree (1st Class Honours) from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1983 and PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Monash University in 1989. His PhD was on the side resistance development of piles socketed into Melbourne mudstone. He worked on finite element analysis of soil-structure interaction problems, as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Newcastle University from 1989 to 1991. He also worked as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with Golder Associates Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia from 1991 to 1994, where he was responsible for engineering analysis of geotechnical and geo-environmental problems, management of projects including development and maintenance of computer programs. His present work at Monash includes supervision of doctoral, masters and undergraduate research projects and conducting fundamental and applied research. He has published over 80 technical papers on a diverse range of topics. He has attracted over 800,000 dollars in external and internal research grants, during his 10 year tenure as an academic. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia and has served as honorary treasurer in Australian Geomechanics Society. His current research interests include; stabilisation of soils and rocks for road pavements, geomechanics featuring soil suction, behaviour of compacted soils and rocks, evaporation and cracking of soils, leaching and migration of contaminants in porous materials, pile foundations and numerical modelling.