A/Pr Weena Lokuge

Name | A/Pr Weena Lokuge |
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Email Address | weena.lokuge@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Associate Professor (Civil Engineering) |
Qualifications | PGCertTertT&L USQ, MEng Asian IT, PhD Monash |
Department | School of Engineering |
Affiliations | Centre for Future Materials |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-1976 |
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Biography
Weena Lokuge is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the School of Engineering and affiliated with Centre for Future Materials. Her research areas include construction materials, composite materials, rehabilitation of concrete structures and infrastructure management. She has over 100 research papers in materials/structural engineering areas and has an H index of 22. She has been successful in attracting research grants to USQ including the highly competitive ARC-Industrial Transformation Research Hub and Bush Fire and Natural Hazards CRC indicating her leadership in continuous collaboration with industry partners, national and international universities. She has nine HDR completions so far and currently supervising eight PhD/DPEN students (four as principal supervisor). She completed more than 40 honours and 15 MENS student projects. She is a member of the Institute of Engineers, Australia and a committee member of the Queensland Branch of Concrete Institute of Australia.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Associate Professor (Civil Engineering) | University of Southern Queensland | 2021 | |
Senior Lecturer | University of Southern Queensland | 2017 | 2020 |
Lecturer | University of Southern Queensland | 2013 | 2016 |
Postdoctoral Research/ Teaching | University of Southern Queensland | 2010 | 2012 |
Structural Engineer- Part time | Cardno Alexander Browne | 2007 | 2009 |
Research Assistant | RMIT | 2004 | 2005 |
Expertise
Constitutive behaviour of construction materials
Use of reclaimed resources in construction
Evaluation of the resilience of road structures
Teaching
CIV1501: Engineering Statics
CIV6802: Advanced Prestressed Concrete
Fields of Research
- 400505. Construction materials
- 400508. Infrastructure engineering and asset management
- 400510. Structural engineering
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Engineers Australia | |
Concrete Institute of Australia | |
Australasian Association for Engineering Education |
Supervision Interests
Construction materials
Sustainability in construction industry
Constitutive behaviour of materials
Resilience of road structures to extreme event
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Development of standard mix design procedure and performance guideline for geopolymer concrete | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Towards the development of a ¿user-friendly¿ one-part geopolymer-based binder cured at ambient conditions as an alternative to ordinary Portland cement-based binders | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Investigation of incorporating alternative waste pozzolans and aggregates in conventional concrete and Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Novel protective seawall infrastructure using fibre composite materials | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Structural performance of corrugated metal culverts rehabilitated by fibre reinforced polymer sliplining | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Development of a mortar from alkali-activated material using Harvested Ash as a precursor material | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Performance of Sustainable Concrete Incorporating Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Granules | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Assessing long-term performance and durability of geopolymer concrete mortar for sewage pipe coating material | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Behaviour of Structural Rehabilitation Using External Post-Tensioning | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
A Multicriteria Assessment of Modular Bridge Systems for Bridge Rehabilitation or Replacement. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Investigation on the Behaviour of Floodway Structures Under Extreme Flood Loadings | Principal Supervisor | Masters | 2022 |
Behaviour of circular columns strengthened by glass fibre reinforced polymer wrapping system | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Behaviour of filled pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer tubes under axial loading. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Flexural behaviour of concrete slabs reinforced with GFRP bars and hollow composite reinforcing systems | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2018 |
Behaviour of multi-celled GFRP beam assembly with concrete infill: Experimental and theoretical evaluations | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Properties of mortar and concrete containing fine sand contaminated with light crude oil | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Dynamic behaviour of composite sandwich beams and plates with debonds | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2016 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2021 | Faculty of Health Engineering and Sciences- Excellence award for research- individual | University of Southern Queensland | |
2021 | Inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Women in STEM | University of Southern Queensland | |
2021 | Dean’s commendation letter on the delivery of teaching in S2 2020; CIV1501 | University of Southern Queensland | |
2019 | Second place for the Unit-specific publication excellence award for School of Civil Engineering and Surveying | University of Southern Queensland | |
2017 | 'Fault tree analysis method for deterioration of timber bridges using an Australian case study' published in Built Environment Project and Asset Management was selected by the journal’s editorial team as a Highly Commended paper | Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. | |
2018 | Enhancing resilience of critical road structures: bridges, culverts and flood ways under natural hazards | MainRoads Western Australia | |
2016 | Timber bridge maintenance | Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia, Annual State Conference, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre | |
2021 | Materials Circular Economy Journal, | Springer |
Item reviewed | Year |
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Construction and Building Materials | 2013 |
Engineering Structures | 2014 |
Case studies in Construction materials | 2021 |