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Somasundaram Valliappan
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Somasundaram Valliappan
BE Annam, MS Northeastern, PhD DSc Wales, CPEng, FASCE, FIACM
Office Location:
CE 708 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5071
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: s.valroberto@unsw.edujlo.au
- Stress Analysis of Soil and Rock Mechanics Problems
- Stability Analysis Of Large Dams
- Wave Propagation Due to Blasting
- Fracture Mechanics
- Fuzzy Computations In Finite Element Method
- Stress Analysis in Biomechanics
- Damage Mechanics
- Flow Through Fractured Porous Medium
- Contaminant Transport
- Emission of Methane Gas in Coal Mining
- Coupled Finite Element Method and Optimization
- Earthquake Engineering
- Smart Materials and Structures
- Ageing Degradation of Large Structures.
Zhang Wohua and Valliappan,S.,Continuum Damage Mechanics Theory and Application, Parts I & II,International Journal of Damage Mechanics, 1998 , Vol.7, 250-297
Valliappan,S., Wang,W., and Khalili,N., Contaminant Transport under Variable Density Flow in Fractured Porous Media, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 1998, Vol.22, 577-596
Valliappan, S. and Zhang Wohua, "Numerical Modelling of Methane Gas Migration in Dry Coal Seams", Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. in Geomechanics, Vol. 20, pp. 571-594, (1996).
Valliappan, S. and Pham. T.D., "Fuzzy Logic Applied to Numerical Modelling of Engineering Problems", Monograph, Computational Mechanics Advances, Elsevier Science (1995).
Valliappan, S. and Wang, Y.C., "Advances in Computational Mechanics Applied to Wave Propagation Problems", Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Ed. Siriwardane and Zaman, Vol. 1, pp. 347-362 (1994).
Valliappan, S. and Zhao Chongbin, "Dynamic Response of Concrete Gravity Dams Including Dam-Water-Foundation Interaction", Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. in Geomechanics, Vol. 16, pp. 79-99, (1992).
- Vice President (Asia-Australia), International Association for Computational Mechanics
- Founding Secretary-General for Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics
- Director, Australian Association for Computational Mechanics
- Member, Editorial Board, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
- Member, Board of Directors, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
- Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
- Honorary Editor, International Journal of Computational Methods.
- 2001 Outstanding Contributions Award - Medal from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
- 2002 IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics) Award for Continued and Sustained Contributions in Computational Mechanics
- 2004 Zienkiewicz Medal (Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics) for outstanding and sustained contributions in computational mechanics and for having shown leadership in promoting computational mechanics activities in Asian Pacific region
- 2005 JSME Computational Mechanics Award for outstanding and sustained contributions in computational mechanics.
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