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Assoc Prof Karu Karunasena

Name :	Assoc Prof Karu Karunasena
Position :	Head of Discipline (Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering) & Associate Professor(Enginee
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office :	Z441
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2906
Extension :	2906
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BScEng Peradeniya MEng Asian IT PhD Manitoba

Home Page : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-8306-2009
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Professional Memberships

Member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia - MIEAust
Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers - MASCE
Member of Structural Engineering Institute, USA
Charted Professional Engineer - CPEng
Registered Professional Engineer in Queensland (RPEQ)

Professional Affiliations

Member of the Australian Composite Structures Society
Member of the Australasian Association for Computational Mechanics
Member of the Australian Association for Engineering Education
Assessor for Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage Projects

Research Interests

Fibre Composites
Modelling and analysis of structures
Rehabilitation of concrete, steel and timber structures
Structural health monitoring
Wave propagation in composite materials
Soil-structure interaction

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Karunasena, W. (2008). Elastodynamic reciprocity relations for wave scattering by flaws in fiber-reinforced composite plates. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol 3(10), pp. 1831 – 1846.

Aravinthan, T., Karunasena, W. and Wang, H. (as editors) (2008). Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials – Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20), Toowoomba, Australia, 2-5 December 2008, (published by CRC Press/Balkema, Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK.

Karunasena, W. and Martin, N. (2007). The effect of debonding on the flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with fiber reinforced polymer. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM2007), Vol. 2, Brisbane, Australia, Eds. Albermani, F. et al., Published by Engineers Australia, pp. 465-470

Johnson, K., Lemcke, P., Karunasena, W., and Sivakugan, N. (2006). Modelling the Load-Deformation Response of Deep Foundations under Oblique Loading. Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol. 21, pp. 1375-1380.

Hardeo, P. and Karunasena, W. (2006). Three dimensional finite element analysis of concrete filled FRP tubular model piles under lateral loads. Proccedings of the ACUN-5 International Composites Conference, Eds. Bandyopadhyay, S., Zeng, Q., Berndt, C.C., Rizkalla, S. Gowripalan, N., Matisons, J., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 282-287. (This paper received best research paper award in the infrastructure related applications category at the ACUN-5 International Composite Conference in Sydney in July 2006)

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Most notable :

Karunasena, W., Shah, A.H., and Datta, S.K. (1991). Plane-Strain-Wave Scattering by Cracks in Laminated Composite Plates. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 117, No. 8, pp. 1738-1754.

Karunasena, W., Shah, A.H., and Datta, S.K. (1992). Wave Propagation in a Multilayered Laminated Cross-ply Composite Plate. ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 58, pp. 1028-1032.

Karunasena, W., Liew, K.M., and Kitipornchai, S. (1995). Reflection of Plate Waves at the Fixed Edge of a Composite Plate. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 644-651.

Liu, T., Karunasena, W., Kitipornchai, S., and Veidt, M. (2000). The Influence of Backward-wave Transmission on Quantitative Ultrasonic Evaluation using Lamb Wave Propagation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 306-314.

Hardeo, P. and Karunasena, W. (2006). Three dimensional finite element analysis of concrete filled FRP tubular model piles under lateral loads. Proccedings of the ACUN-5 International Composites Conference, Eds. Bandyopadhyay, S., Zeng, Q., Berndt, C.C., Rizkalla, S. Gowripalan, N., Matisons, J., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 282-287. (This paper received best research paper award in the infrastructure related applications category at the ACUN-5 International Composite Conference in Sydney in July 2006)

Karunasena, W. (2008). Elastodynamic reciprocity relations for wave scattering by flaws in fiber-reinforced composite plates. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol 3(10), pp. 1831 – 1846.

Aravinthan, T., Karunasena, W. and Wang, H. (as editors) (2008). Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials – Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20), Toowoomba, Australia, 2-5 December 2008, (published by CRC Press/Balkema, Taylor and Francis Group, London, UK.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

CIV3505 Structural Analysis
CIV4508 Structural Design II
ENG3902 Professional Practice 1
ENG3902 Professional Practice 2
CIV3907 Civil Systems Practice

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 14 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Head, Discipline of Agricultural, Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Program Coordinator (BEng Civil and MEngSci Civil and Structural)