Dr Paul Vardanega
BE (QldUT), MEngSc (QldUT), PhD (Cantab), GMICE, MASCE, MIEAust, FHEA
Current positions
Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Tomorrow's Cities GCRF Hub
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2020 to 31/03/2021
Platform for Road and Infrastructure Slope Management (GCRF pump-priming project)
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Rainfall-triggered landslides are increasing in tropical developing countries due to rapid urbanisation and road construction. Hillside communities experience frequent ‘everyday disasters’ while larger storms cause hundreds of landslides that block…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/03/2018 to 31/07/2018
Databases to INterrogate Geotechnical Observations (DINGO)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/07/2017 to 09/06/2019
SAFER Seismic safety and resilience of schools in Nepal
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This project aims at developing a comprehensive scheme for enhancing the seismic safety and resilience of school buildings in Nepal. The circle of resilience initiates from a holistic seismic hazard…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/05/2017 to 30/06/2021
8035 EPSRC GLOBAL CHALLENGES 2016
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/08/2016 to 31/03/2017
Thesis supervisions
A new framework for evaluation of scour monitoring approaches for bridges
Supervisors
Hydraulic Conductivity of Road Construction Materials
Supervisors
The Management of Bridges
Supervisors
Evaluating Parameter Uncertainty of Empirical Equations for Assessing Local Scour around Bridge Piers
Supervisors
Static and Dynamic Analysis of Piles in Inhomogeneous Soil
Supervisors
Technology innovation for improving bridge management
Supervisors
Use of Open-Access Databases to Characterise Geotechnical Parameter and Model Uncertainty.
Supervisors
Geotechnical data curation and a geostatistical multivariate framework for Vs prediction in data scarce contexts
Supervisors
A framework for assessing parameter variability of soil stress-strain data using triaxial test databases
Supervisors
Development of Empirical Model of Shear Force Capacity and Stiffness of the Screw Connections in Timber – Concrete Composite Structures
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/07/2022Use of fall-cone flow index for soil classification
Géotechnique
Assessing the suitability of bridge-scour-monitoring devices
Proceedings of the ICE - Forensic Engineering
Stiffness of clays and silts: Normalizing shear modulus and shear strain
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE
Recent publications
29/06/2026A framework for specification of scour monitoring approaches for riverine bridges
Fourth International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure
Shear mode and OCR effects on the mobilised shear strains of a laboratory Kaolin and Bothkennar Clay
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering
Community‑scale slope stability assessment of urbanisation scenarios in North Quito, Ecuador
Landslides
Introduction to the RW-70/402 database
Geodata and AI
Revisions to the Nepalese Building Code (NBC 105:2020)
Natural Hazards Review
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