What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Composite material
- Geotechnical engineering
- Thermodynamics
Jayantha Kodikara focuses on Geotechnical engineering, Water content, Cracking, Structural engineering and Shrinkage.
His research in Geotechnical engineering is mostly concerned with Desiccation cracking.
His study looks at the relationship between Desiccation cracking and topics such as Ultimate tensile strength, which overlap with Fracture toughness.
The concepts of his Water content study are interwoven with issues in Soil water, Swelling, Capillary action and Suction.
His Structural engineering research includes elements of Brittleness, Parametric statistics and Corrosion.
His Stiffness research integrates issues from Fracture mechanics and Strain energy.
His most cited work include:
- Laboratory experiments on desiccation cracking of thin soil layers (139 citations)
- Salient factors controlling desiccation cracking of clay in laboratory experiments (76 citations)
- A review of coal properties pertinent to carbon dioxide sequestration in coal seams: with special reference to Victorian brown coals (76 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Geotechnical engineering, Composite material, Soil water, Structural engineering and Water content.
His research in Geotechnical engineering intersects with topics in Shrinkage, Cracking, Expansive clay and Suction.
Cement, Capillary action, Flexural strength and Ultimate tensile strength are subfields of Composite material in which his conducts study.
His Soil water research incorporates themes from Wetting and Stress.
The various areas that Jayantha Kodikara examines in his Structural engineering study include Discrete element method, Submarine pipeline and Cast iron.
Water content is frequently linked to Moisture in his study.
He most often published in these fields:
- Geotechnical engineering (48.31%)
- Composite material (14.15%)
- Soil water (14.15%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?
- Geotechnical engineering (48.31%)
- Structural engineering (13.23%)
- Cast iron (6.77%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of study are Geotechnical engineering, Structural engineering, Cast iron, Corrosion and Composite material.
His Geotechnical engineering research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Soil water, Cracking and Stress.
His work investigates the relationship between Soil water and topics such as Moisture that intersect with problems in Soil science.
His studies examine the connections between Cracking and genetics, as well as such issues in Shrinkage, with regards to Ultimate tensile strength.
His research investigates the connection with Structural engineering and areas like Discrete element method which intersect with concerns in Damage mechanics, Plasticity theory and Fracture.
His Water content study incorporates themes from Wetting and Suction.
Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Modelling the dynamic failure of brittle rocks using a hybrid continuum-discrete element method with a mixed-mode cohesive fracture model (64 citations)
- Effect of 2D spatial variability on slope reliability: A simplified FORM analysis (52 citations)
- Reliability-based design for geotechnical engineering: an inverse FORM approach for practice (48 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Composite material
- Geotechnical engineering
- Statistics
Jayantha Kodikara mainly focuses on Geotechnical engineering, Structural engineering, Cracking, Ultimate tensile strength and Fracture toughness.
Compaction is the focus of his Geotechnical engineering research.
Jayantha Kodikara has researched Structural engineering in several fields, including Discrete element method and Brittleness, Composite material, Corrosion.
The Cracking study combines topics in areas such as Shrinkage, Flexural strength and Constitutive equation.
In his work, Experimental data and Plasticity is strongly intertwined with Fracture, which is a subfield of Fracture toughness.
Jayantha Kodikara focuses mostly in the field of Moisture, narrowing it down to topics relating to Swelling and, in certain cases, Water content.
This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s
body of work. If you have any feedback, you can
contact us
here.
