Department of Civil Engineering



Dr. A. J. Dammika

Senior Lecturer


Office Address:

Department of Civil Engineering,

University of Peradeniya,

Peradeniya,20400,

Sri Lanka.

dammikaaj@gmail.com/ dammikaaj@pdn.ac.lk
+94 77 414 5640 /+94 81 239 3549

  • PhD. Saitama University, Japan. (2014)
  • MEng. AIT, Thailand (2009)
  • BScEng. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2003)
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Bridge Engineering
  • Year 2020 - Coordinator, Postgraduate Programme in Structural Engineering
  • December 2015- to date: Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya
  • November 2014 - December 2015: Lecturer (Probationary), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
  • July 2009 - August 2010: Civil Engineer,M-U-TGmbH, Austria (Based on Sri Lanka).
  • January 2004 – August 2007: Site Engineer/Site Manager, Link Engineering (Pvt) Ltd.
  • Member, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (MILT)
  • Associate member, The Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL)
  • R. R. V. G. B. C. R. B. Hulangamuwa., and A. J. Dammika., Behaviour of jointless bridge decks with link slabs: A review, In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (ICSECM-2019), Kandy, Sri Lanka. December 2019.
  • M.A.K.M. Dharmasiri., A.J.Dammika., and J.A.S.C Jayasinghe., Damping change-based damage detection of PC bridges, In Proceedings of the 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (ACEE 2018), Bangkok, Thailand November 2018.
  • Gatheeshgar, P., Silojan, P., Dammika, A.J. and Yapa, H.D., 2018. Prediction of Shear Transfer in High-strength Concrete Crack Interfaces. Engineer: Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, 51(3), pp.21–30.
  • Kasun Dharmasiri, Wijesundara K. K., Dammika A. J. and. Dissanayake P. B. R., Dynamics of a 2D curved cantilever Timoshenko beam element using force based finite element formulation, In Proceedings of 6th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulations (ICCMS 2016), IIT, Bombay, India, July 2016.
  • A.J. Dammika, Kawarai, K., Yamaguchi, H., Matsumoto, Y., and Yoshioka, T. (2015). "Analytical Damping Evaluation Complementary to Experimental Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges." ASCEJournal of Bridge Engineering, 20(7).
  • T. Tanaka, S.eRehmat, Y. Matsumoto and A.J. Dammika. Damping properties of existing single-span pre-stressed concrete girder bridges with different service periods: In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (ICSECM-2015), Kandy, Sri Lanka. December 2015.
  • S. Mustafa, A. J. Dammika, Y. Matsumoto, H. Yamaguchi, and T. Yoshioka. A Bayesian Probabilistic Approach for Finite Element Model Updating Utilizing Vibration Data Measured in an Existing Steel Truss Bridge: In Proceedings of 7thInternational Conference onStructural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Torino, Italy. July 2015.
  • A.J. Dammika, R. Sheharyar, R. Takanami, H. Yamaguchi, and Y. Matsumoto. An Investigation on Modal Damping Ratio as an Indicator of Invisible Damage in PC bridges,Life-Cycle of Structural Systems: Design, Assessment, Maintenance and Management,Edited by Hitoshi Furuta, Dan M. Frangopol, and Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, CRC Press 2014.
  • A.J. Dammika, H. Yamaguchi, K. Kawarai, T. Yoshioka, and Y. Matsumoto. Energy-based Damping Estimation of Steel Bridges and its Applicability to Damage Detection: In Proceedings of 13th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-13), Sapporo, Japan. September 2013.
  • H. Yamaguchi, Y. Matsumoto, K. Kawarai, A.J. Dammika, S. Shahzad, R. Takanami. Damage Detection based on Modal Damping Change in Bridges: In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE-2012), Kandy, Sri Lanka. December 2012.
  • A.J. Dammika, N. Anwar. Extraction of Strut and Tie Model from 3D Solid Element Mesh Analysis: In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE-2010), Kandy, Sri Lanka. December 2010.



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