Department of Civil Engineering

Dr. Sahan Bandara

Lecturer (Probationary)


Office Address:

Department of Civil Engineering,

University of Peradeniya,

Peradeniya, 20400,

Sri Lanka.

sahan@eng.pdn.ac.lk

+94-71 745 0090

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Dr. Sahan Bandara received a Bachelor’s degree in Science specialized in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2016. Thereafter, he worked as a temporary lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, until he was awarded a scholarship from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia in 2017 to pursue his higher studies. His PhD thesis was titled “Condition assessment of timber poles using advanced NDT techniques”. He has served as a research fellow for the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, Swinburne University from July 2020 to July 2021, where he engaged in consultancy projects with Australian Power Distribution Companies. Currently he is serving as a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya. His research interests are on the application of guided wave-based techniques and machine learning for structural health monitoring, structural retrofitting and ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete.

  • PhD: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (2021)
  • BSc.Eng (First Class Honours):University of Peradeniya (2016)
  • Access Engineering PLC award for the best paper published in MODULUS 2022 – Society of Structural Engineers, Sri Lanka
  • Swinburne University Post Graduate Research Award, Australia 2017
  • Ceylon Development price for the best performance in Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 2016
  • Associate Member of Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka
  • December 2021 To date – Lecturer (Probationary)
  • July 2020 to July 2021 – Research fellow - Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, Swinburne University
  • 2017 to 2020 – PhD student, Swinburne University
  • 2016 to 2017 - Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya
  • Guided wave-based techniques and machine learning for Structural Health monitoring, Condition assessment of timber structures, Structural retrofitting, Ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete
  • Peradeniya University Research Grant 2023 - Structural retrofitting using Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) jacketing
Category Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Papers
  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Gad, E. (2023). Power Distribution System Faults and Wildfires: Mechanisms and Prevention. Forests, 14(6), 1146.
  • Bandara, S., Wijesundara, K., & Rajeev, P. (2023). Ultra-High-Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete for Rehabilitation and Strengthening of Concrete Structures: A Suitability Assessment. Buildings, 13(3), 614.

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Gad, E. (2023). A review on condition assessment technologies for power distribution network infrastructure. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 1-18.

  • Madhushan, S., Buddika, S., Bandara, S., Navaratnam, S., & Abeysuriya, N. (2023). Uses of Bamboo for Sustainable Construction—A Structural and Durability Perspective—A Review. Sustainability, 15(14), 11137.

  • Rajeev, P., Bandara, S., Gad, E., & Shan, J. (2022). Structural assessment techniques for in-service crossarms in power distribution Networks. Infrastructures, 7(7), 94.

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Gad, E. (2021). Structural health assessment techniques for in-service timber poles. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 1-21

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., & Sriskantharajah, B. (2021). Damage severity estimation of timber poles using stress wave propagation and wavelet entropy evolution. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems, 4(1), 011006.

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., Sriskantharajah, B., Flatley, I. (2021) Structural Health Assessment of Timber Utility Poles using Stress Wave Propagation and Artificial Neural Network Techniques. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 40(4), 1-21

  • Sriskantharajah, B., Gad, E., Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Flatley, I. (2020). Condition assessment tool for timber utility poles using stress wave propagation technique. Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 1-21

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., Sriskantharajah, B., & Flatley, I. (2020). Health monitoring of timber poles using time–frequency analysis techniques and stress wave propagation. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 1-19.

  • Mudiyanselage, S., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., Sriskantharajah, B., & Flatley, I. (2019). Application of stress wave propagation technique for condition assessment of timber poles. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 15(9), 1234-1246.

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., Sriskantharajah, B., & Flatley, I. (2019). Damage detection of in-service timber poles using Hilbert-Huang transform. NDT & E International, 107, 102141.


    • Conference Papers
  • Bandara, S., Wijaya, H., & Rajeev, P. (2022).Automated Structural Health Monitoring of Timber Poles using Guided Wave-based Techniques. In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Palermo, Italy 2022
  • Bandara, S., Jayasinghe, S., & Bandara, C. S. (2022). Potential for low-cost housing in Sri Lanka – case study. In ICSBE 2022

  • Lambert, M., Bandara, S., Dissanayake., U. (2022) Effect of Tendon Layout for Deflection in Bonded Post-tensioned Slabs. In MODULUS- Society of Structural Engineers Sri Lanka 2022

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Gad, E. (2021). Machine learning algorithms for health monitoring of timber utility poles using stress wave propagation. In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring: Special Collection of 2020 Papers-Volume 1 (pp. 739-748). Springer International Publishing.

  • Bandara, S., Rajeev, P., & Gad, E. (2021). Deterioration Modelling of Timber Utility Poles. In ICSECM 2019 (pp. 417-426). Springer, Singapore

  • Bandara, S. N., Rajeev, P., Gad, E., Sriskantharajah, B., & Flatley, I. (2020). Non-destructive Techniques for Condition Assessment of Timber Utility Poles. In ACMSM25 (pp. 941-951). Springer, Singapore

  • Bandara, S., Bandara, L, Wijesundara, K. Usage of Total Crack Strain Model to Predict the Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beams. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Civil and Environmental Engineering Practices for Sustainable Development 2017 (ACEPS - 2017), March 2017.

  • Bandara, S., Bandara, L, Wijesundara, K. Numerical Simulation of Prediction of Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beams using Total Crack Strain Model. Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2016 (ICSBE - 2016), December 2016

    • Design of Structures, Prestressed Concrete



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