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Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake

Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake

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Engineering and Technology

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48
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7766
World Ranking
4640
National Ranking
1331

Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
7765
World Ranking
3842
National Ranking
1512

Overview

Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake is a researcher affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their work spans several fields within engineering and environmental science, focusing primarily on rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, and landslide-related hazards.

The main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Their subfields cover areas such as:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Environmental Engineering

Kulatilake's research topics reflect a concentration on:

  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Geomechanics and Mining Engineering
  • Dam Engineering and Safety

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kulatilake include:

  • "Non-stationarity, heterogeneity, scale effects, and anisotropy investigations on natural rock joint roughness using the variogram method" (2021), published in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
  • "Evaluating landslide susceptibility based on cluster analysis, probabilistic methods, and artificial neural networks" (2020), Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
  • "Stress and deformation analysis of gob-side pre-backfill driving procedure of longwall mining: a case study" (2021), International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
  • "Role of heterogeneity on joint size effect, and influence of anisotropy and sampling interval on rock joint roughness quantification" (2022), Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources
  • "Formation mechanism of a rainfall triggered complex landslide in southwest China" (2020), Journal of Mountain Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kulatilake include:

  • Mawuko Luke Yaw Ankah
  • Desmond Talamwin Sunkpal
  • Xiaokang Zhao
  • Amin Manouchehrian
  • Rui Wu

Kulatilake has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
  • Geotechnics
  • International Journal of Geomechanics
  • Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources
  • International Journal of Coal Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • New peak shear strength criteria for anisotropic rock joints

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;G. Shou;T.H. Huang;R.M. Morgan

  • Estimation of mean trace length of discontinuities

    P. H. S. W. Kulatilake;T. H. Wu

  • Physical and particle flow modeling of jointed rock block behavior under uniaxial loading

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;Bwalya Malama;Jialai Wang

  • Joint network modelling with a validation exercise in Stripa mine, Sweden

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;D.N. Wathugala;O. Stephansson

  • Natural rock joint roughness quantification through fractal techniques

    P. H. S. W. Kulatilake;P. Balasingam;Jinyong Park;R. Morgan

  • REV and its properties on fracture system and mechanical properties, and an orthotropic constitutive model for a jointed rock mass in a dam site in China

    Qiong Wu;Qiong Wu;P.H.S.W. Kulatilake

  • Estimation of REV size and three-dimensional hydraulic conductivity tensor for a fractured rock mass through a single well packer test and discrete fracture fluid flow modeling

    M Wang;P.H.S.W Kulatilake;J Um;J Narvaiz

  • Mechanical behavior of rock-like jointed blocks with multi-non-persistent joints under uniaxial loading: A particle mechanics approach

    Xiang Fan;Xiang Fan;P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;Xin Chen

  • Effect of finite size joints on the deformability of jointed rock in three dimensions

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;S. Wang;O. Stephansson

  • Mean particle size prediction in rock blast fragmentation using neural networks

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;Wu Qiong;T. Hudaverdi;T. Hudaverdi;C. Kuzu

  • Investigation of natural rock joint roughness

    Yunfeng Ge;Yunfeng Ge;Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake;Huiming Tang;Chengren Xiong

  • Models for normal fracture deformation under compressive loading

    B. Malama;P.H.S.W. Kulatilake

  • Discontinuum–Equivalent Continuum Analysis of the Stability of Tunnels in a Deep Coal Mine Using the Distinct Element Method

    Srisharan Shreedharan;Pinnaduwa H. S. W. Kulatilake

  • Improvements for the smooth joint contact model of the particle flow code and its applications

    Mohammad Hadi Mehranpour;Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake

  • Stochastic fracture geometry modeling in 3-D including validations for a part of Arrowhead East Tunnel, California, USA

    Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake;Jeong Gi Um;Mingyu Wang;Richard F. Escandon

  • Numerical simulation of a jointed rock block mechanical behavior adjacent to an underground excavation and comparison with physical model test results

    Xuxu Yang;Xuxu Yang;P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;Hongwen Jing;Shengqi Yang

  • The density of discontinuity traces in sampling windows

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;T.H. Wu

  • Requirements for accurate quantification of self affine roughness using the roughness-length method

    P.H.S.W Kulatilake;J Um

  • Use of the distinct element method to perform stress analysis in rock with non-persistent joints and to study the effect of joint geometry parameters on the strength and deformability of rock masses

    P.H.S.W. Kulatilake;H. Ucpirti;S. Wang;Gunnar Rådberg

  • Box fractal dimension as a measure of statistical homogeneity of jointed rock masses

    Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake;Reno Fiedler;Bibhuti B. Panda

Frequent Co-Authors

Ove Stephansson
Ove Stephansson University of Potsdam
Huiming Tang
Huiming Tang China University of Geosciences
Sheng-Qi Yang
Sheng-Qi Yang China University of Mining and Technology
Ping Cao
Ping Cao Central South University
Qinghui Jiang
Qinghui Jiang Wuhan University
George Mylonakis
George Mylonakis University of Bristol
Brendan C. O'Kelly
Brendan C. O'Kelly Trinity College Dublin
Hongwen Jing
Hongwen Jing China University of Mining and Technology

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