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sandamal.k@sliit.lk
Mr. Kelum Sandamal
Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering | Civil Engineering
Career Summary
- Lecturer - Department of Civil Engineering- SLIIT (January 2022 - Present).
- Graduate Research Assistant - Department of Civil Engineering – Univeristy of Moratuwa (January 2019 - December 2021).
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- MPhil (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
- BSc (Eng) Hons (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Road Asset Management Systems
- Traffic & Highway Design
- Road Safety
- Machine Learning
Memberships
- Member, Charted Institute of Logistic and Transportation, Sri Lanka.
- Member, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS), Sri Lanka
- Associate Member, The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
Ongoing Research
- Evaluating Expressway Traffic Crash Severity by using Logistic Regression and Explainable & Supervised Machine Learning Classifiers.
- A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Low Volume Rural Road Maintenance Management Incorporating Socioeconomic Importances.
My Publications
Journal Publications
- Pasindu, H.R., Ranawaka, R.K.T.K., Sandamal, R.M.K., & Dias, T.W.K.I.M. " "Incorporating Road Safety into Rural Road Network Pavement Management" " International Journal of Pavement Engineering , 2021, 10.1080/10298436.2021.1942469,
- Sandamal, R.M.K. & Pasindu, H.R. " "Applicability of Smartphone-based Roughness Data for Rural Road Pavement Condition Evaluation" " International Journal of Pavement Engineering , 2020, 10.1080/10298436.2020.1765243,
- Sandamal, R.M.K. & Pasindu, H.R. " "Development of Pavement Roughness Prediction Model for National Highways in Sri Lanka" " Journal of the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka, vol.53, Issue 04, 2020, pp.79-88, 10.4038/engineer.v53i4.7380,
- Sandamal, K.; Shashiprabha, S.; Muttil, N.; Rathnayake, U. " Pavement Roughness Prediction Using Explainable and Supervised Machine Learning Technique for Long-Term Performance " 2023,
Conference Presentations
- Pasindu, H.R., Ranawaka, R.K.T.K., Sandamal, R.M.K., Thenuwara, H.V., & Dias, T.W.K.I.M. " Incorporating Road Safety in Rural Road Network Level Pavement Management Presentation, at 100th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. , 2021
- Sandamal, R.M.K. & Pasindu, H.R. " Applicability of Smartphone-based Roughness Data for Rural Road Network Level Pavement Condition Evaluation Presentation, at 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., 2020
- Sandamal, R.M.K. & Pasindu, H.R. " Development of Pavement Condition Prediction Model for National Highways Presentation, at Transport Research Forum 2019, University of Moratuwa,Moratuwa, 2019
Conference Proceedings
- Pasindu, H.R., Sandamal, R.M.K. & Perera, M.Y.I. A Framework for Network Level Pavement Maintenance Planning for Low Volume Roads in 9th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements—Mairepav9, year 2020, Zurich, Springer,
- Abeygunawardhana, C., Sandamal, R.M.K. & Pasindu, H.R Identification of the Impact on Road Roughness on Speed Patterns for Different Roadway Segments in Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), year 2020, Moratuwa, pp.425-430 , IEEE,
- Sandamal, R.M.K., Ranawaka, R.K.T.K. & Pasindu, H.R. A Framework to Incorporate Safety Performance for Low Volume Roads in Pavement Management Systems in Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), year 2020, Moratuwa, pp.407-412 , IEEE,
- Perera, M.Y.I., Pasindu, H.R. & Sandamal, R.M.K. Pavement Maintenance Management System for Low Volume Roads in Sri Lanka in Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), year 2019, Moratuwa, pp.250-255 , IEEE,