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A.P.S. Selvadurai

A.P.S. Selvadurai

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
50
Citations
9290
World Ranking
1178
National Ranking
52

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

A.P.S. Selvadurai was affiliated with McGill University in Canada and contributed extensively to the field of engineering, focusing primarily on mechanics of materials and civil and structural engineering. Their research covered a wide array of topics within rock mechanics, groundwater flow, geotechnical engineering, drilling, well engineering, hydraulic fracturing, and numerical methods.

Their main fields of study included:

  • Engineering

Within this broad field, Selvadurai's work notably addressed several subfields, such as:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Geophysics
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

The scientist's research contributions also spanned several key topics, including:

  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling

Selvadurai frequently published in the following venues:

  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • International Journal of Engineering Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geosciences

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Effects of surface roughness on liquid bridge capillarity and droplet wetting, 2020, Powder Technology
  • Modeling of flow characteristics in 3D rough rock fracture with geometry changes under confining stresses, 2020, Computers and Geotechnics
  • Triaxial Compressive Strength, Failure, and Rockburst Potential of Granite Under High-Stress and Ground-Temperature Coupled Conditions, 2022, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • Influence of asperity degradation and gouge formation on flow during rock fracture shearing, 2021, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • A Review of Techniques for Measuring the Biot Coefficient and Other Effective Stress Parameters for Fluid-Saturated Rocks, 2022, Applied Mechanics Reviews

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Parham Samea
  • A. P. Suvorov
  • Seyed Mohammad Rezaei Niya
  • Mohamed A. Meguid
  • Yuedu Chen

Throughout their career, Selvadurai was recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007, designated by the Academy of Science. Their work has influenced various aspects of rock mechanics and environmental engineering until their passing, leaving a substantive body of research in the engineering sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Analytical Method in Geomechanics

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  • Deflections of a rubber membrane

    A.P.S. Selvadurai

  • The FEBEX benchmark test : case definition and comparison of modelling approaches

    E.E. Alonso;J. Alcoverro;F. Coste;L. Malinsky

  • A fully coupled constitutive model for thermo‐hydro‐mechanical analysis in elastic media with double porosity

    N. Khalili;A. P. S. Selvadurai

  • Influence of Nonassociativity on the Bearing Capacity of a Strip Footing

    Jian-Hua Yin;Jian-Hua Yin;Yu-Jie Wang;Yu-Jie Wang;A. P. S. Selvadurai;A. P. S. Selvadurai

  • Mechanics of Poroelastic Media

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  • An interdisciplinary approach towards improved understanding of soil deformation during compaction

    Thomas Keller;Mathieu Lamandé;S. Peth;M. Berli

  • Coupled thermal-mechanical-hydrological behaviour of sparsely fractured rock: Implications for nuclear fuel waste disposal

    T.S. Nguyen;A.P.S. Selvadurai

  • Stationary damage modelling of poroelastic contact

    A.P.S. Selvadurai

  • An experimental study of a footing located on a sloped fill: influence of a soil reinforcement layer

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;C. T. Gnanendran

  • The Permeability of an Intact Granite

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;M. J. Boulon;T. S. Nguyen

  • Partial Differential Equations in Mechanics 2

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  • A model for coupled mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of a rock joint

    T. S. Nguyen;A. P. S. Selvadurai

  • Thermo-Poroelasticity and Geomechanics

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;A. P. Suvorov

  • Modelling the FEBEX THM experiment using a state surface approach

    T.S. Nguyen;A.P.S. Selvadurai;G. Armand

  • Computational modelling of isothermal consolidation of fractured porous media

    A.P.S. Selvadurai;T.S. Nguyen

  • Transmission of vertical soil stress under agricultural tyres: Comparing measurements with simulations

    Thomas Keller;Markus Berli;Siul Ruiz;Mathieu Lamandé

  • Mechanics of Structured Media

    A. P. S. Selvadurai

  • Thermo-poromechanics of a fluid-filled cavity in a fluid-saturated geomaterial

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;A. P. Suvorov

  • On the load transfer from a rigid cylindrical inclusion into an elastic half space

    A.P.S. Selvadurai;R.K.N.D. Rajapakse

  • THE ANNULAR CRACK PROBLEM FOR AN ISOTROPIC ELASTIC SOLID

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;B. M. Singh

  • Mechanics of Geomaterial Interfaces

    A. P. S. Selvadurai;M. J. Boulon

  • Scoping analyses of the coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical behaviour of the rock mass around a nuclear fuel waste repository

    A.P.S. Selvadurai;T.S. Nguyen

  • Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

    Yasuaki Ichikawa;A. P. S. Selvadurai

Frequent Co-Authors

R.K.N.D. Rajapakse
R.K.N.D. Rajapakse Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Nasser Khalili
Nasser Khalili University of New South Wales
Yili Kang
Yili Kang Southwest Petroleum University
Jérôme Fortin
Jérôme Fortin Laboratoire de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure
Ernest Rutter
Ernest Rutter University of Manchester
Qinhong Hu
Qinhong Hu The University of Texas at Arlington
Jian-Hua Yin
Jian-Hua Yin Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bernhard M. Krooss
Bernhard M. Krooss RWTH Aachen University
Philip G. Meredith
Philip G. Meredith University College London
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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