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Contact Information:
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Teaching Commitments:
CIV3248 - Tutor
CIV3247 - Tutor
CIV4249 - Tutor
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Qualifications:
Bachelor of Science/Engineering (1st class Hons)
Head of Room G24 Building 60
Awards
Railand Prize for Water Supply
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Research:
PHD Topic
Fracture Propagation of Cohesive Soils under Tension and Desiccation Cracking
Date Commenced: 12 March 2009
Supervisor
Assoc. Prof. Jayantha Kodikara
Short Introduction to PHD Topic
Fracture mechanics has been used extensively to describe crack propagation of glass, steel, concrete, ceramics, soils, dental plaster and even botanical structures. The aims of this research are:
To investigate fracture properties and tensile strength of cohesive soils.
To determine a relationship between consolidated and compacted soils fracture toughness
Whether a cohesive crack model is more suitable than linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) for crack propagation theory in soils
This will be conducted using single edged notched beams (SENB) in three point and four point bending, compact tension (CT) and ring tests. The fracture properties will be compared to specialised desiccation cracking tests to determine whether desiccation induced cracking shows similar properties to load induced cracking.
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