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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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Uphill diffusion in ternary Ni-Re-Ru alloys at 1000 and 1100°C
R. A. Hobbs, M. S. A. Karunaratne, S. Tin, R. C. Reed and C. M. F. Rae, “Materials Science and Engineering” , pp. 587-594
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Finite element modelling of the development of stresses in thermal barrier coatings
Unai Hermosilla, I. Arthur Jones, Tom H. Hyde, Rachel C. Thomson and Mudith S. A. Karunaratne, (2009 International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply)
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Finite element modelling of development of stresses in thermal barrier coatings
U Hermosilla, I. A. Jones, T. H. Hyde, R. C. Thomson, M. S. A. Karunaratne, “Energy Materials” , pp. 133-140
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Microstructural evolution in coated superalloy systems
R. C. Thomson, S. Newman, G. D. West and M. Karunaratne, “Energy Materials ” , pp. 11-16
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Modelling the high temperature behaviour of TBCs using sequentially coupled microstructural-mechanical FE analyses
U Hermosilla, M. S. A. Karunaratne, I. A. Jones, T. H. Hyde and R. C. Thomson, “Materials Science and Engineering A” , pp. 302-310
