ICGRE Pleanry Speaker
Dr. Jayantha Kodikara, Monash University, Australia
Professor Jayantha Kodikara received his BSc (Eng) degree (1st Class Honours and University Prize) from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1983 and PhD degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Monash University in 1989. His PhD was on the side resistance development of piles socketed into Melbourne mudstone. He worked on finite element analysis of soil-structure interaction problems, as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle from 1989 to 1991. Then he worked as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with Golder Associates Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia from 1991 to 1994, where he was responsible for engineering analysis of geotechnical and geo-environmental problems, management of projects including development and maintenance of computer programs.
After joining Monash in 2001, he has developed vigorous research programs into both fundamental and applied research in civil engineering. The fundamental research areas include modelling of unsaturated soil behaviour, atmosphere/ground/structure interaction, and soil and rock fracture and water flow. The applied research areas fall mostly in the themes of infrastructure resilience and energy, which include on-shore and off-shore pipelines, road pavements and smart monitoring using fibre optics. He has published about 200 technical papers on a diverse range of topics. He has attracted about 20 million dollars in external and internal research grants, during his 20 year tenure as an academic. He has supervised successfully over 15 PhD students, some of whom are university lecturers and scientists in research organisations and principals in consulting companies.
ICSECT Keynote Speaker
Dr. Ivo CALIO’, University of Catania, Italy
Full professor of Dynamics of Structures, joined at the University of Catania as researcher in 1997. Since his PhD, he has extensively worked on nonlinear analysis methods for dynamic structural analysis, and this research, extended to the modelling of whole masonry and reinforced concrete building behavior under earthquake loadings. He participated in several scientific projects aimed at investigating the seismic assessment of existing concrete and masonry building not designed to resist to earthquake loading. Currently he coordinates a research group for developing alternative macro-element numerical strategies, suitable both for practical engineering purposes and academic investigations. The main results of these researches have being implemented in two structural analysis program 3DMacro, for masonry and mixed reinforced concrete and masonry buildings and HiStrA (Historical Structures Analysis) focused on the Structural Assessment of Historical Monumental Structures and Masonry Bridges subjected to extreme loadings or unexpected events. He is associate editor of the international journal Shock & Vibratio