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Mr. Dinitha Vidurapriya
Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering
Career Summary
- Lecturer (Tenure Track) - Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. (September 2023 - Present)
- Assistant Lecturer - Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. (November 2022 - August 2023)
- Graduate Research Assistant - Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. (June 2019 - October 2022)
- Academic Instructor - Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. (January 2019 - June 2019)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- M.Phil. in Civil Engineering - Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology (2024)
- B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) - Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology (2019)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Best Paper in Geotechnical Engineering at the 2nd SLIIT International Conference on Engineering and Technology (2023)
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Properties and behaviour of organic soil
- Effectiveness of different ground improvement techniques
- The uplift capacity of pile foundations
- Application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in geotechnical engineering.
Memberships
- Associate Member - Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) - 2021
- Member - Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society (SLGS) - 2024
- Associate Engineer - Engineering Council of Sri Lanka (ECSL) - 2021
- Graduate Member - Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom (ICE) - 2019
- Member - Institution of Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom (IET) - (2019)
Ongoing Research
- The prediction of secondary consolidation settlement of overconsolidated organic soils.
- Characterising the time-dependent compressibility parameters of normally consolidated organic soil deposits in Sri Lanka.
- Evaluation of the pullout resistance of pile foundations in Sri Lanka.
- Application of AI models in settlement prediction of highway embankments built on soft organic soil deposits.
My Publications
Journal Publications
- Wang Y., Vidurapriya K. V. D., Qin X. and Thilakasiri H. S. " The Microstructure and the Behaviour of Low Organic Clayey Soils in Sri Lanka " Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, vol.52, Issue 1, 2024, pp.45-58, http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jnsfsr.v52i1.11403,
- Vidurapriya K. V. D., Jayaratne G. A. N. and Thilakasiri H. S. " Prediction of Post-Construction Settlement of Road Embankment on Soft Soil Deposits " Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology, vol.2, Issue 1, 2024, pp.65-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/KCZF9855,
- Welikala C.O., Vidurapriya K. V. D. and Thilakasiri H. S. " A Case Study of Assessing the Accuracy of Secondary Consolidation Prediction using Qualitative Approach " Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology, vol.2, Issue 2, 2024, pp.69-79, http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/DLSS6914,
Conference Proceedings
- Thilakarathne T.M.D., Vidurapriya K.V.D. and Thilakasiri H.S. Computational Approach for Determining the Variation of Coefficient of Secondary Compression in Secondary Settlement Prediction of Soft Soils in SLIIT 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Technology, year 2023,
- Vidurapriya K.V.D., Wang Y., Thilakasiri H.S. and Zhu S A review of the empirical correlations of peaty and organic soils in Sri Lanka in Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering (2020), year 2021,
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