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Contact Information:
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Qualifications:
- B.Sc-Eng. (Hons, 1st Class), University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 1996
- Ph.D, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2001
- Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Monash University, Australia, 2006
Professional Appointments:
- 2009-Present: ARC Future Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Monash
University, Australia
- 2006-Present: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Monash
University, Australia
- 2003-2005: Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Monash
University, Australia
- 2001-2003 : Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Eng., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2000-2001: Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia
- 1997-2000: PhD student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Wollongong
University
- 1996-1997: Lecturer, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
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Research:
- Research into Geosequestration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), including geomechanical
behaviour due to the stored supercritical CO2, Formation and swelling behaviour of rock media,
Migration of CO2 due to change in insitu stresses.
- Activation of faults due to the injection of high fluid pressures
- Slope Stability of large deep, open cut mines
- Stability of wellbore analysis
- Underground longwall mining
- Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM
- Hydro-fracturing and other simulation methods for depleted and tight reservoirs
- Two-phase and multiphase flow in fractured rock media
- Coupled Hydro-mechanical behaviour of fractured and porous rocks
- Gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines
- Rock physics under high pressure conditions
- Contaminant transport through rock
- Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns
- Characterization of weathered rocks
- Tunneling in soft and hard ground
There are number of scholarhips for Australian and overseas students. If you are interested in doing a postgraduate research in above research areas,
please contact me.
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Short Resume:
Dr Ranjith from the Department of Civil Engineering has been awarded the ARC Future Fellowship (2009) for his research work to combat climate change.
Dr.Ranjith, P.G. joined the Monash university group in 2003. Before joining to Monash, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Geotechnical and Rock Engineering at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. His PhD was on the "Stress-strain and permeability characteristics of Two-phase (water+gas) flow through fractured rocks".
His areas of research include carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration in sedementary basins, modeling of multiphase flow through rocks, gas
outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines and tunnels, rock fracture mechanism and tunneling in soft and hard ground. He is actively involved in
experimental and numerical modeling in fundamental work as well as applied research in rock mechanics.
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