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Radhavi Abeysiridara Samarakoon

faculty

Radhavi Abeysiridara Samarakoon, PhD she/her

Assistant Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Contact

508-910-6844

radhavi.samarakoon@umassd.edu

Violette Research 108A

Education

2022University of California San DiegoPhD in Structural Engineering
2016University of South FloridaMS in Civil Engineering
2014University of Moratuwa, Sri LankaBSc in Civil Engineering

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Physical and mechanical properties of soils including weight-volume relationships, index and classification properties, compaction, permeability and consolidation characteristics. Effective stresses and soil strength parameters are also discussed. Previously offered as CEN 403.

Research

Research interests

  • Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
  • Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes
  • Nuclear Waste Disposal
  • Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Select publications

  • Samarakoon, R.A., Kreitzer, I.L, McCartney, J.S. (2024).
    Use of Bender Elements to Evaluate Linkages between Thermal Volume Changes and Shear Modulus Hardening in Drained and Undrained Thermal Triaxial Tests
    Geotechnical Testing Journal, 47(2)
  • Samarakoon, R.A., McCartney, J.S. (2023).
    Simulation of thermal drains using a new constitutive model for thermal volume change of normally consolidated clays
    Computers and Geotechnics, 153, 105100
  • Samarakoon, R.A., Kreitzer, I.L, McCartney, J.S. (2022).
    Impact of initial effective stress on the thermo-mechanical behavior of normally consolidated clay
    Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 32, 100407
  • Vahedifard, F., Thota, S.K., Cao, T.D., Samarakoon, R.A., McCartney, J.S. (2020).
    Temperature-dependent model for small-strain shear modulus of unsaturated soils
    Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 146 (12), 04020136