Amila Dissanayake

PhD student
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Amila Dissanayake

Amila Dissanayake’s PhD is identifying the vulnerability index for a structural form of a steel bridge that has been exposed to bushfire. He is investigating ways to enhance the fire resilience of bridges and the effect of fire on bridge retrofitting works. Findings will help to develop time-temperature curve for bushfires and will broaden the knowledge on the use of structural retrofitting works on the disaster mitigation process.

Amila is currently a Project Engineer and Manager at Civlec Construction.

Student project

This research aims to develop a far more complete and accurate performance based fire design methodology for steel bridges. It is investigating the ways in which the fire resistance of bridges can be improved by introducing passive fire protection measures. A vulnerability index for any given configuration of a steel bridge will be calculated.
Supervisory panel:
Numerical assessment of a steel bridge subjected to Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires
19 Sep 2018
The focus of this research is to assess the performance of a steel plate girder bridge subjected to...
Performance analysis of composite steel girder bridge structural elements subjected to bushfires
29 Jun 2017
The focus if this research is to assess the performance of existing composite steel girder bridges...
Amila Dissanayake Conference Poster 2016
12 Aug 2016
Focus of this research is to assess the performance of existing composite steel girder bridges to...

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