Transportation geotechnics

FOCUS AREAS

Our main focuses are: geotechnical properties of geomaterials and behaviour of compacted and stabilized geomaterials used for road constructions; use of waste materials for road constructions.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Jayamali KVSD, Nawagamuwa UP, Indraratna B (2018), Estimation of four day soaked CBR using index properties, Australian Geomechanics Journal, Volume 53, No 4, PP149-158
  • Nawagamuwa UP, Shamil Shabry AG, Ainkaran K, Prasad DLS, Madushanka HKP (2018), Use of Industrial Byproducts to Improve Unsuitable Soils for Road Construction in Sri Lanka, Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference: Transportation Geotechnics and Pavement Engineering, pp. 299–308, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0011-0_32
  • Nawagamuwa UP, Prasad DLS (2017), Improving soils of low CBR with flyash for road applications, Proceedings of the 19th International conference eon Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017, 3393-3396
  • Kulathilaka SAS (2015), Cut Slopes in Residual Soils for Highways - Lessons Learnt, 16th Conference on Current Researches in Geotechnical Engineering, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  • Shanke P, Nawagamuwa UP (2015), Utilization of Building Debris in Road Construction in Northern Province of Sri Lanka, International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 2015
  • Jayamali KVSD, Nawagamuwa UP (2015), Development of empirical correlations between CBR and index properties for Sri Lankan soils, International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 2015.

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