Transport Geomechanics

The study of the geomaterials used in transport situations, such as in road pavements and rail track bases.

Publications

Kodikara, J.K., Albrecht, D.W., Sanjayan, J.G. and Byrne, M. 2008, ‘Identifying the effects of soil and climate types on seasonal variation of pavement roughness using MML Inference’, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 90-99.
Singh, S.P., Tripathy, D.P. and Ranjith, P.G. 2008, ‘Performance evaluation of cement stabilised flyash-GBFS mixes as a highway construction material’, Waste Management, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 1331‑1337.

Haque, A., Kamruzzaman, A., Christie, D. and Bouazza, A. 2008, ‘Towards a better design guideline of subballast materials for filtration purpose under cyclic load’, in Rail-the Core of Integrated Transport: Proceedings of the Conference on Railway Engineering, CORE 2008, eds. Bill Singleton et al, RTSA Engineers Australasia, Perth WA Australia, pp. 611-616.

Haque, A., Kabir, E. and Bouazza, A. Cyclic filtration apparatus for testing subballast under rail track, J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE USA, Vol. 133(3), pp. 338-341.

Kodikara, J.K. Cementitous stabilisation of unbound road pavements, The First International Conference in Soil and Rock Mechanics, Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society, Sri Lanka.
Wilkinson, A., Haque, A. and Kodikara, J. Lime Slurry Pressure Injection of railway subgrades, Common Ground, Proceedings of the 10 th ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, Brisbane, Edited by J. Ameratunge, B. Taylor and M. Patten, AGS, Australia, Volume 2, pp. 192-197.
Lee, K.Y., Kodikara, J.K., Wardle, L.J. and Bouazza, A. Continuous Mechanistic Deterioration Modelling of Road Pavements, Common Ground, Proceedings of the 10 th ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, Brisbane, Edited by J. Ameratunge, B. Taylor and M. Patten, AGS, Australia, Volume 1, pp. 502-507.

Kodikara, J., Wightwick, M. and Ranjith, P.G. Assessment of capillary ingress of water in stabilised pavement materials, Australian Geomechanics, Vol. 41, No.3, pp. 115-132.

Byrne, M., Albrecht, D., Sanjayan, J.G. and Kodikara, J. A Minimum Message Length approach to inferring deterioration of pavements with Family Modelling, 22nd ARRB Conference, Oct 29 to Nov. 2, Canberra, Australia (accepted for publication).
Kabir, E., Haque, A. and Bouazza, A. Influence of cyclic load on the design of subballast, Proceedings of the Conference on Railway Engineering (CORE), Melbourne, pp. 181-184.
Kodikara, J.K. Conceptual approaches for considering shrinkage cracking in the cement stabilised pavement mix design conceptual approaches for considering shrinkage cracking in the cement stabilised pavement mix design, 22nd ARRB Conference, Oct 29 to Nov. 2, Canberra, Australia, CD Rom Proceedings, ISBN 1 876592 49 4/0572-1431.
Wightwick, M., Kodikara, J.K, and Ranjith, P.G. Capillary rise in road pavement material stabilised using hydrophobic additives, 22nd ARRB Conference, Oct 29 to Nov. 2, Canberra, Australia, CD Rom Proceedings, ISBN 1 876592 49 4/0572-1431.

Kodikara, J.K. and Yeo, R. Performance of road pavements stabilised insitu, Ground Modification, Editors, B. Indraratne and C. Jian, Elsevier.

Byrne, M., Sanjayan, J.G., Albrecht, D., Kodikara, J. and Martin, T. Application of Data Mining in Pavement Performance Modelling - A Case Study, Road and Transport Research, No. 4, Vol. 14, December, 2005, pp. 27 - 44.
Kodikara, J.K. and Chakrabarti, S. Modelling of moisture loss in cementitiously stabilised pavement materials, Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 295-303.

Kodikara, J.K. and Ranjith, P.G. Modelling of salt migration in stabilised pavement materials, Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Osaka, Vol. 3, pp. 1731-1734.