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Staff Profiles - A. Arulrajah (Arul)



Arul Arulrajah

Contact Details:

Office Location: EN 705A
Phone: +61 3 9214 5741
Fax: +61 3 9214 8264
Email:aarulrajah@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

A. Arulrajah (Arul)
Senior Lecturer – Civil Engineering
PhD, Curtin University of Technology (Perth), 2005
MEngSc, University of Malaya (Malaysia), 2003
BSc, Purdue University, (W. Lafayette, U.S.A.), 1992

Areas of Expertise and Research

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Soft Ground Engineering
  • Ground Improvement
  • Soil stabilization
  • Land Reclamation and dredging
  • Deep Compaction
  • Field Instrumentation and In-Situ Testing


Current Reseach Projects

  • Ground Improvement and soft soil engineering
  • Densification of granular soil
  • Geotechnical instrumentation
  • Finite element modelling
  • In-situ testing of soft soil


Professional Membership and Activities

  • Fellow Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
  • Chartered & Registered Professional Engineer (CPEng, NPER)
  • Member Australian Geomechanics Society
  • Member International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
  • Registered Professional Engineer, Malaysia
  • Member Institution of Engineers, Malaysia


Publications

Research outcomes disseminated in some 15 refereed journals and 25 refereed conference papers. Publications have been cited in several books on ground improvement, reclamation and geotechnical engineering. Selection of 10 recent journal publications are listed below:

  1. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and Bo, M.W. (2006). “Assessment of Marine Clay Improvement under Reclamation Fills by In-Situ Testing Methods” Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 24, No. 1, pp. 219-226.
  2. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and Bo, M.W. (2006). “In-Situ Pore Water Pressure Dissipation Testing of Marine Clay under Reclamation Fills” Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 24, No. 1, pp. 29-43.
  3. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and Bo, M.W. (2005). “Finite Element Modeling of Marine Clay Deformation under Reclamation Fills”, Ground Improvement: Journal of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, July, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 105-118.
  4. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and M. W. Bo (2005). “In-Situ Testing of Singapore Marine Clay at Changi”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 23, pp. 111-130.
  5. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and Bo, M.W. (2004). “Factors Affecting Field Instrumentation Assessment of Marine Clay Treated With Prefabricated Vertical Drains”, Geotextiles and Geomembranes: Journal of the International Geosynthetics Society, Vol. 22, No. 5, October, pp. 415-437.
  6. Arulrajah, A. Australian Geomechanics: Journal of the Australian Geomechanics Society, Vol. 39, No. 2, June, pp. 61-72.
  7. Arulrajah, A., Bo, M.W. and Nikraz, H. (2004). “Field Instrumentation Monitoring of Land Reclamation projects on Marine Clay Foundations”, Australian Geomechanics: Journal of the Australian Geomechanics Society.
  8. Arulrajah, A., Bo, M.W., Nikraz, H. and Hashim, R. (2004) “Piezocone Dissipation Testing of Singapore Marine Clay at Changi”, Geotechnical Engineering, Journal of the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 119-126.
  9. Arulrajah, A., Nikraz, H. and Bo, M.W. (2004). “Observational Methods of Assessing Improvement of Marine Clay”, Ground Improvement: Journal of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, October, pp. 151-169.
  10. Arulrajah, A. and Nikraz, H. (2004). “Field Instrumentation Assessment of Offshore Land Reclamation Works”, Journal of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering (IJOPE), Vol. 14, No. 4, December, pp. 315-320.

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