Associate Professor
Chaminda Gallage
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Biography
Dr Chaminda Gallage is a geotechnical/pavement engineering expert at QUT. Since his commencement as an academic in 2009, he has published about 60 refereed publications, supervised 8 HDR students to completion, and attracted about $0.3 million research income from industry. He has established very strong research collaboration with University of Tokyo, University of Hokkaido, Monash University, and University of Queensland. His research at QUT is strongly supported by TMR, BCC, Geofabrics Australasia, Global Synthetics, and Geotechnical consultancies in Brisbane.Main areas of research:
- Testing and modelling of pavement materials
- Climate induced ground deformation and effects on infrastructure
- Slope stability: analysis of various slopes taking unsaturated soil properties into account, design of warning systems for slope failures
- Behaviour of unsaturated/saturated soils: shear strength, permeability, and volume change of unsaturated soils, swell/shrink properties of geo-materials
- Design of customise laboratory testing apparatus and laboratory soil testing
- Geogrid/Geosythetic application in Geotechnical Engineering
Grants:
Received about $0.3 million research income through industry and commercial funding (CAT-2 and CAT-3) as follows:
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment Stage 3 Monitoring the Efficiency of Current Landslide Remediation Strategies Through Soil Water Content and Surface Movement Monitoring” – SEQ Water ($69,405)
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment Stage 2” – SEQ Water ($62,192)
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment & Preliminary Remediation Options Study” – SEQ Water ($20,125)
- “An investigation into performance of polymeric soil stabilisers” – Global Road Technology (GRT) Operations ($60,539)
- “The effects of pre-installation methodology of geotextiles on their properties and performance” – Geofabrics Australasia Pty Ltd ($45,000)
- “Characterisation of Material at the Base of Spoil Piles of BMA coal mines” – BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) ($40,242)
- “Pebble Matrix Filtration” – SEQ Water ($29,233)
Awards and recognitions
- July 2005: Award for the distinguished presentation in the 7th International Summer Symposium of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003 – 2006: Japanese Government Scholarship (Mombusho) for reading PhD University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2000 – 2002: Asian Development Bank (ADB) Scholarship for reading Master of Engineering (MEng) degree at the University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1995 – 1999: Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship for undergraduate student at the University Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- 1984 – 1992: Grade Five Scholarship for school education
Career history
- August 2014 – To present: Senior Lecturer (Civil Engineering), School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment, QUT, Australia
- Jun 2009 – August 2014: Lecturer (Civil Engineering), School of Urban Development, QUT, Australia
- Mar 2007 – Jun 2009: Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
- Nov 2006 – Feb 2007: Research Assistance, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Aug 2000 – Nov 2006: Lecturer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
- Aug 1999 – Jul 2000: Assistance Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Structural Design Engineer, UID Consultants, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research field
Civil Engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD(CivilEng) (University of Tokyo)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Australian Geotechnical Engineering Society
- Member - International Geosynthetic Society
- Life member - GEOMATE
Teaching
Teaching areas
- Geotechnical engineering
- Pavement engineering
- Unsaturated soil mechanics
- Structural analysis
- Civil materials.
Experience
Interests and community service
Read more
- Reviewer: Canadian Geotechnical Society
- Certificate of accreditation as a Monash Research Supervisor – Level 1
- Licence certificate to use portable density/moisture gauges (issued by Department of Human Services, Victoria).
Publications
- Gallage, C., Mostofa, M., Vosolo, D. & Rajapakse, J. (2016). A new laboratory model of a slaking chamber to predict the stability of on-site coal mine spoils. International Journal of GEOMATE, 10(22), 2065–2070. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/105742
- Gallage, C. & Uchimura, T. (2016). Direct shear testing on unsaturated silty soils to investigate the effects of drying and wetting on shear strength parameters at low suction. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE, 142(3), 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90829
- Chan, D., Rajeev, P., Kodikara, J. & Gallage, C. (2016). Field performance of in-service cast iron gas reticulation pipe buried in reactive clay. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 7(2), 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95132
- Cheah, C., Gallage, C., Dawes, L. & Kendall, P. (2016). Impact resistance and evaluation of retained strength on geotextiles. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 44(4), 549–556. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/95130
- Moradi Pour, P., Chan, T. & Gallage, C. (2015). An improved modal strain energy method for structural damage detection, 2D simulation. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 54(1), 105–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82796
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Blast response and failure analysis of a segmented buried tunnel. Structural Engineering International: Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 25(4), 419–431. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90830
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Blast response of segmented bored tunnel using coupled SPH-FE method. Structures, 2, 58–71. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83543
- Chan, D., Gallage, C., Rajeev, P. & Kodikara, J. (2015). Field performance of in-service cast iron water reticulation pipe buried in reactive clay. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 52(11), 1861–1873. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84635
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Performance of buried tunnels subjected to surface blast incorporating fluid structure interaction. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 29(3), 1–70. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/68158
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Response of segmented bored transit tunnels to surface blast. Advances in Engineering Software, 89, 77–89. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83542
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Chaminda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- ARC Research Hub for Smart Next Generation Transport Pavements - Use of smart goesynthetics for long lasting and resilient pavements (IH18.06.1)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- IH180100010
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Development of a Methodology to Quantify Installation Damage on Geotextile for Coastal Application (2017)
- Performance Evaluation of Unsaturated Rail Track Foundations under Cyclic Moving Wheel Load (2017)
- Blast Response and Sensitivity Analysis of Segmental Tunnel (2014)
- Investigation on Characteristics and Performance of Recycled Concrete Aggregates as Granular Materials for Unbound Pavements (2014)
- Soil-Pile Interaction of Pile embedded in Deep Layered Marine Sediment under Seismic Excitation (2014)
- Real - time prediction of rainfall induced instability of residual soil slopes associated with deep cracks (2013)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Investigation on Geotechnical Engineering Properties of Coal Mine Spoil Subjected to Slaking (2017)
- Developing a New Instrumented Soil Column to Study Climate-Induced Ground Movement in Expansive Soil (2016)
- Base Material Characterisation of Spoil Piles at BMA Coal Mines (2015)
- Road Infrastructure Vulnerability to Groundwater Table Variation due to Sea Level Rise (2014)