Dr Susanga Costa - Researcher Profile

Biography

Susanga works in the Office of the PVC & President Gippsland at Monash University as a Lecturer.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2010

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

Institution: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Kodikara, J.K., Costa, W.D.S., 2012, Desiccation cracking in clayey soils: mechanisms and modelling, in Multiphysical Testing of Soils and Shales, eds Prof Dr Lyesse Laloui and Dr Alessio Ferrari, Springer Science+Business Media, Heidelberg Gernmany, pp. 21-32. View Publication

Journal Articles

Costa, W.D.S., Kodikara, J.K., 2012, Evaluation of J integral for clay soils using a new ring test, Geotechnical Testing Journal (E), vol 35, issue 6, A S T M International, USA, pp. 1-9. View Publication

Amarasiri, A., Costa, W., Kodikara, J., 2011, Determination of cohesive properties for mode I fracture from compacted clay beams, Canadian Geotechnical Journal [P], vol 48, issue 8, NRC Research Press, Canada, pp. 1163-1173. View Publication

Amarasiri, A., Kodikara, J., Costa, S., 2011, Numerical modelling of desiccation cracking, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics [P], vol 35, issue 1, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Sussex UK, pp. 82-96. View Publication

Conference Proceedings

Huxtable, D., Xue, J., Costa, W.D.S., 2012, Investigation of engineering performance of gravels mixed with additives for unsealed pavement stabilization, ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, 15 July 2012 to 18 July 2012, Australian Geomechanics Society, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1244-1249. View Publication

Costa, W., Kodikara, J., 2010, Shrinkage development during soil desiccation, Unsaturated Soils, 23 November 2009 to 25 November 2009, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 433-436.

Amarasiri, A.L., Kodikara, J.K., Costa, W.D., 2009, Numerical modelling of laboratory tests on desiccation cracking, Proceedings of the 1st Int. Symp. on Computational Geomechanics (COMGEO I ), 29 April 2009 to 1 May 2009, Int. Centre for Computational Engineering (IC2E), Rhodes Greece, pp. 302-310.

Costa, W.D., Kodikara, J.K., Thusyanthan, N., 2008, Modelling of desiccation crack development in clay soils, Proceedings of the 12th Int. Conf. of the Int. Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (12th IACMAG), 1/10/2008 to 6/10/2008, IACMAG, India, pp. 1099-1107.

Costa, W.D., Kodikara, J.K., Thusyanthan, N., 2008, Study of desiccation cracks evolution using image analysis, Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering - Proceedings of the First European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2008), 2/07/2008 to 4/07/2008, CRC Press/Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 159-164.

Costa, W.D., Kodikara, J.K., 2007, Investigation of desiccation cracking using automated digital photography, Common Ground - Proceedings of the 10th Australia New Zealand Conf. on Geomechanics, 21/10/2007 TO 24/10/2007, Carillon Conf. Management Pty Ltd for Australian Geomechanics Society, Australia, pp. 338-343.

Teaching Commitment

ENG3202

ENG3203

ENG1211

ENG3205

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Multi-Scale Studies of the Compression of Unsaturated Geomaterials.

Supervisors:

Kodikara, J (Main), Costa, W (Associate).