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Associate Professor
Chaminda Gallage
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Biography
Dr Chaminda Gallage is a geotechnical/pavement engineering expert at QUT. Since his commencement as an academic in 2009, he has published about 60 refereed publications, supervised 8 HDR students to completion, and attracted about $0.3 million research income from industry. He has established very strong research collaboration with University of Tokyo, University of Hokkaido, Monash University, and University of Queensland. His research at QUT is strongly supported by TMR, BCC, Geofabrics Australasia, Global Synthetics, and Geotechnical consultancies in Brisbane.Main areas of research:
- Testing and modelling of pavement materials
- Climate induced ground deformation and effects on infrastructure
- Slope stability: analysis of various slopes taking unsaturated soil properties into account, design of warning systems for slope failures
- Behaviour of unsaturated/saturated soils: shear strength, permeability, and volume change of unsaturated soils, swell/shrink properties of geo-materials
- Design of customise laboratory testing apparatus and laboratory soil testing
- Geogrid/Geosythetic application in Geotechnical Engineering
Grants:
Received about $0.3 million research income through industry and commercial funding (CAT-2 and CAT-3) as follows:
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment Stage 3 Monitoring the Efficiency of Current Landslide Remediation Strategies Through Soil Water Content and Surface Movement Monitoring” – SEQ Water ($69,405)
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment Stage 2” – SEQ Water ($62,192)
- “Baroon Pocket Dam - Landslide Assessment & Preliminary Remediation Options Study” – SEQ Water ($20,125)
- “An investigation into performance of polymeric soil stabilisers” – Global Road Technology (GRT) Operations ($60,539)
- “The effects of pre-installation methodology of geotextiles on their properties and performance” – Geofabrics Australasia Pty Ltd ($45,000)
- “Characterisation of Material at the Base of Spoil Piles of BMA coal mines” – BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) ($40,242)
- “Pebble Matrix Filtration” – SEQ Water ($29,233)
Awards and recognitions
- July 2005: Award for the distinguished presentation in the 7th International Summer Symposium of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Tokyo, Japan
- 2003 – 2006: Japanese Government Scholarship (Mombusho) for reading PhD University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2000 – 2002: Asian Development Bank (ADB) Scholarship for reading Master of Engineering (MEng) degree at the University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1995 – 1999: Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship for undergraduate student at the University Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- 1984 – 1992: Grade Five Scholarship for school education
Career history
- August 2014 – To present: Senior Lecturer (Civil Engineering), School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment, QUT, Australia
- Jun 2009 – August 2014: Lecturer (Civil Engineering), School of Urban Development, QUT, Australia
- Mar 2007 – Jun 2009: Research Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
- Nov 2006 – Feb 2007: Research Assistance, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Aug 2000 – Nov 2006: Lecturer, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
- Aug 1999 – Jul 2000: Assistance Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Structural Design Engineer, UID Consultants, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Research field
Civil engineering
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD(CivilEng) (University of Tokyo)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Australian Geotechnical Engineering Society
- Member - International Geosynthetic Society
- Life member - GEOMATE
Teaching
Teaching areas
- Geotechnical engineering
- Pavement engineering
- Unsaturated soil mechanics
- Structural analysis
- Civil materials.
Experience
Interests and community service
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- Reviewer: Canadian Geotechnical Society
- Certificate of accreditation as a Monash Research Supervisor – Level 1
- Licence certificate to use portable density/moisture gauges (issued by Department of Human Services, Victoria).
Publications
- Gallage, C., Mostofa, M., Vosolo, D. & Rajapakse, J. (2016). A new laboratory model of a slaking chamber to predict the stability of on-site coal mine spoils. International Journal of GEOMATE, 10(22), 2065–2070. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/222294
- Gallage, C. & Uchimura, T. (2016). Direct shear testing on unsaturated silty soils to investigate the effects of drying and wetting on shear strength parameters at low suction. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE, 142(3), 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90829
- Chan, D., Rajeev, P., Kodikara, J. & Gallage, C. (2016). Field performance of in-service cast iron gas reticulation pipe buried in reactive clay. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice, 7(2), 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/221188
- Cheah, C., Gallage, C., Dawes, L. & Kendall, P. (2016). Impact resistance and evaluation of retained strength on geotextiles. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 44(4), 549–556. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/221165
- Moradi Pour, P., Chan, T. & Gallage, C. (2015). An improved modal strain energy method for structural damage detection, 2D simulation. Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 54(1), 105–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82796
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Blast response and failure analysis of a segmented buried tunnel. Structural Engineering International: Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 25(4), 419–431. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90830
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Blast response of segmented bored tunnel using coupled SPH-FE method. Structures, 2, 58–71. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83543
- Chan, D., Gallage, C., Rajeev, P. & Kodikara, J. (2015). Field performance of in-service cast iron water reticulation pipe buried in reactive clay. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 52(11), 1861–1873. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84635
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Performance of buried tunnels subjected to surface blast incorporating fluid structure interaction. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 29(3), 1–70. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/68158
- Koneshwaran, S., Thambiratnam, D. & Gallage, C. (2015). Response of segmented bored transit tunnels to surface blast. Advances in Engineering Software, 89, 77–89. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83542
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Chaminda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/chaminda.gallage
Selected research projects
- Title
- Novel Test and Design Methods for Base Course Reinforced flexible Pavements
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP220100186
- Start year
- 2024
- Keywords
- Title
- ARC Research Hub for Smart Next Generation Transport Pavements - Use of smart goesynthetics for long lasting and resilient pavements
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- IH180100010
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Development of a design method for rapid displacement helical piles (Micro Helical Piles)
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Anthony Ariyanayagam - Effects of Different Geosynthetic Products on Rutting Performance of Reinforced Subgrades
PhD, Principal Supervisor - Evaluation of Different Testing Methods for Assessing the Properties and Performance of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Unbound Flexible Pavements
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Hossein Derakhshan - Evaluation of the Performance of Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCA) as a Granular Pavement Material
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Jay Rajapakse - Influence of Asphalt Production and Placing Variability on Pavement Design
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sabrina Fawzia, Associate Professor Hafizah Binti Ramli - Investigation of the stability of slope with expansive materials
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Amir Tophel - Modelling and numerical investigation of thermalfractureanisotropy coupling in pre-fractured rock using Discrete Element Method (DEM)
MPhil, Associate Supervisor - Numerical and physical modelling assessing performance of horizontal vacuum consolidation in tailings
PhD, Principal Supervisor - Optimising road agencies' approaches to constructing earthworks, pavements, and culverts on highly expansive soils
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Amir Tophel - Optimization of cyclone sand grain size composition for enhanced geotechnical performance in tailings dams
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Sustainable drinking water treatment for remote communities using appropriate technologies with special emphasis on Australia (2026)
- Desiccation Shrinkage and Cracking Modelling of Expansive Soil Using XFEM (2025)
- The Influence of Recovered Carbon Black (rCB), on the Properties and Performance of rCB Modified Hot Mix Asphalt (2025)
- Use of Real-Time Measured Pavement Moisture to Assess the Pavement's Suitability to Allow Traffic After a Flood Event (2025)
- Experimental Investigation of Critical State Behaviour and Static Liquefaction for the Design of Mine Tailings Dams (2024)
- Experimental Investigation of Factors Influencing Long-Term Performance of Geocomposite-Reinforced Subgrades Under Cyclic Loading (2024)
- Mechanical And Hydration Properties Of Montmorillonite: Insights From Molecular Dynamics Simulations At Different Hydration States (2024)
- Developing an Economical and Reliable Real-Time Warning System for Rainfall-Induced Individual Landslides (2022)
- Evaluate the Performance of Geosynthetic Reinforced Subgrades Under Monotonic Loading (2022)
- Investigation of the Hydraulic Performance at the Geosynthetic Clay Liner Overlap (2021)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Geotechnical Evaluation of Creep-Induced Slope Movement in Tamborine Mountain, Gold Coast (2026)
- Comparison of Rock Mass Classification Systems in Estimating the Strength of a Rock Mass (2025)
- Estimating the overall modulus/CBR of geosynthetic-reinforced extremely weak subgrades (2023)
- An experimental investigation on the properties and performance of geogrid and geocomposite as subgrade reinforcement in granular pavements (2019)
- Investigation on Geotechnical Engineering Properties of Coal Mine Spoil Subjected to Slaking (2017)
- Developing a New Instrumented Soil Column to Study Climate-Induced Ground Movement in Expansive Soil (2016)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.