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CAREER SUMMARY
- Head of Department/Senior Lecturer (2017 – date)
Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka.
- Research Associate (2005 – 2017)
Department of Materials, Loughborough University, UK.
- Research Fellow (2001-2004)
School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
- PhD candidate (1996-2001)
Department of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK
- Lecturer (1994-1996)
Department of Materials, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy
University of Cambridge (2001)
- BSc Eng (First Class Honours) in Materials Engineering
University of Moratuwa (1994)
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- High temperature materials
- Nickel base superalloys
- 9Cr steels, Materials modelling
- High performance computing in materials science
- Thermodynamics
- Coupled thermodynamics/kinetic modelling
- Diffusion in multicomponent systems
- Diffusion in semiconductor materials, Si and SiGe.
Memberships
- Affiliate Member
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
- Committee Member
Materials Chemistry Committee, IOM3
PUBLICATIONS
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Effect of Point Defect Injection on B diffusion in C containing Si and SiGe
Mudith S. A. Karunaratne, Janet M. Bonar, Jing Zhang and Arthur F. W. Willoughby, (Semiconductor )
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MCrAlY creep behaviour modelling by means of finite-element unit cells and self-consistent constitutive equations
M. D. Banea, L. F. M. da Silva, G. J. Collie, I. Black, L. Fratini, U. Hermosilla, M. S. A. Karunaratne, I. A. Jones, T. H. Hyde and R. C. Thomson, “Journal of materials: Design and Applications” , pp. 41
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MCrAlY creep behaviour modelling by means of finite-element unit cells and self-consistent constitutive equations
U. Hermosilla, M. S. A. Karunaratne, I. A. Jones, T. H. Hyde and R. C. Thomson, “Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications” , pp. 41-51
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Modeling of microstructural evolution in an MCrAlY overlay coating on different superalloy substrates
M. S. A. Karunaratne, I. Di Martino, Sarah L. Ogden, David L. Oates and Rachel C. Thomson, “Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A” , pp. 774-788
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Topologically close packed phases in an experimental rhenium-containing single crystal superalloy
C. M. F. Rae, M. S. A. Karunaratne, C. J. Small, R. W. Broomfield, C. N. Jones and R. C. Reed, (Superalloys 2000)
