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Nadarajah Gowripalan

BSc(Eng) Moratuwa, MSc PhD Leeds, MIEAust

Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 610 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5146
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: n.gowripalanroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Teaching Areas

Concrete Technology
Advanced Materials Technology

Research Areas

Influence of micro and macro cracking on service life of HPC
Durability of concrete structures in marine environments
Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) for very high strength composites (200-800MPa)
RPC in prestressed concrete applications
Early age behaviour of concrete slabs
Plastic shrinkage cracking, flatness and levelness
Alternative reinforcements
Synthetic fibre reinforced concrete, FRP
Fibre Optics and DIT for health monitoring of structures

Selected Publications

P Childs, Allan Wong, N Gowripalan and G Peng (2007) Measurement of the coefficient of thermal expansion of ultra-high strength cementitious composites using fibre optic sensors, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.37(5), pp789-795.

Allan Wong, P Childs, R Berndt, T Macken, G Peng, and N Gowripalan (2007) Simultaneous measurement of shrinkage and temperature of reactive powder concrete at early-age using fibre Bragg grating sensors, Cement & Concrete Composites, Vol.29(6), pp490-497.

Allan Wong, P Childs, W Terry, N Gowripalan and G Peng (2007) Experimental investigation of drying shrinkage and creep of concrete using fibre-optic sensors, Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol.10(3), pp219-228.

Allan Wong, P Childs, G Peng and N Gowripalan (2006) Monitoring of shrinkage and creep of concrete using fibre Bragg grating sensors, 5th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks & the 2nd International Symposium on Advances and Trends in Fiber Optics and Applications, pp480-483, 18-22 September, Chengdu, China.

Sirivivatnanon, V., Mak, S. L. and Gowripalan, N.(2004), ‘Effect of Water and Steam Curing on Long-term Performance of Concrete’, Proceedings 8th CANMET/ACI International Conference on Fly Ash, Silica Fume, Slag and Natural Pozzolans in Concrete, SP, Edited by V.M. Malhotra, May 2004, U.S.A. pp 821-836.

Gowripalan, N., Sirivivatnanon, V. and Lim, C.C.(2004), ‘Microcracking and Chloride Ion Diffusion of Concrete Under Sustained Uniaxial Compression’, Proceedings 8th CANMET/ACI International Conference on Fly Ash, Silica Fume, Slag and Natural Pozzolans in Concrete, SP, Edited by V.M. Malhotra, May 2004, U.S.A. pp 893-910.

Gowripalan,N., Watters,R., Gilbert,R.I. and Cavill,B.(2003), “Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) for Precast Structural Concrete – Research and Development in Australia”, Concrete in the 3rd Millenium, 21st Biennial Conference, Concrete Institute of Australia, Brisbane, July 2003, pp99-108.

Lim,C.C., N.Gowripalan and V.Sirivivatnanon (2001), Effect of Initial Exposure Age of Concrete on the chloride concentration prediction, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions, Vancouver, Canada, 18-20 June, Vol.1 pp317-324.

Zou, X.W., Gilbert, R.I. and Gowripalan,N. (2001), Analysis of time-dependent behaviour of concrete beams prestressed with FRP tendons, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Non-Metallic (FRP) Reinforcement for Concrete Structures, Cambridge, UK, 16-18 July, Vol.1, pp535-544

Gowripalan,N., Sirivivatnanon,V. and Lim,C.C. (2000), Chloride Diffusivity of concrete cracked in flexure, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol.30, pp725-730.

Lim,C.C., Gowripalan,N. and Sirivivatnanon,V. (2000), Microcracking and chloride permeability of concrete under uniaxial compression, Cement and Concrete Composites, Vol.22, pp353-360.

Professional Services

Member, Standards Australia Committees, Method of Testing Concrete BD/42; Manufacture of Concrete BD/49; Chemical Admixtures for Concrete BD/33

Awards

Australasian Corrosion Association Paper Award 1992; Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence 2000

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