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Professor Kumar P. Dharmasena

Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Education:
B.Sc. (Hons.) Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
M.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Ph.D., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. Kumar P. Dharmasena):
S. Chiras, D. R. Mumm, A. G. Evans, N. Wicks, J. W. Hutchinson, K. Dharmasena, H. N. G. Wadley and S. Fichter, “The structural performance of near-optimized truss core panels”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 39, No. 15, July 2002, pp. 4093-4115
J. Wang, A. G. Evans, K. Dharmasena and H. N. G. Wadley, “On the performance of truss panels with Kagomé cores”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 40, No. 25, December 2003, pp. 6981-6988
Wei Z, Dharmasena KP, Wadley HNG, Evans AG. Analysis and interpretation of a test for characterizing the response of metallic sandwich panels to water blast. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2007; 34: 1602-1618.
Haydn N. G. Wadley, Kumar P. Dharmasena, Doug T. Queheillalt, Yungchia Chen, Philip Dudt, David Knight, Ken Kiddy, Zhenyu Xue And Ashkan Vaziri, “Dynamic Compression of Square Honeycomb Structures During Underwater Impulsive Loading”, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Vol. 2, No. 10, pp 2025-2048, 2007
H. N. G. Wadley, K. P. Dharmasena, M. He, R. McMeeking, A. G. Evans, N. Kambouchev, and R. Radovitzky, Cellular materials concepts for air blast mitigation, 2007. In preparation.
Mori LF, Lee S, Xue ZY, Vaziri A, Queheillalt DT, Dharmasena KP, Wadley HNG, Hutchinson JW, Espinosa HD. Deformation and fracture modes of sandwich structures subjected to underwater impulsive loads. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures 2007; 2(10): 1981-2006
Kumar P. Dharmasena, Haydn N.G. Wadley, Zhenyu Xue and John W. Hutchinson, “Mechanical response of metallic honeycomb sandwich panel structures to high-intensity dynamic loading”, International Journal of Impact Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 9, September 2008, pp. 1063-1074
Wadley HNG, Dharmasena KP, Chen Y, Dudt P, Knight D, Charette R, et al. Compressive response of multilayered pyramidal lattices during underwater shock loading. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2008; 35: 1102-1114.
Wei Z, Deshpande VS, Evans AG, Dharmasena KP, Queheillalt DT, Wadley HNG, et al. The resistance of metallic plates to localized impulse. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2008; 56: 2074-2091.
Dharmasena KP, Queheillalt DT, Wadley HNG, Chen Y, Dudt P, Knight D, et al. Dynamic response of a multilayer prismatic structure to impulsive loads incident from water. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2009; 36: 632-643.
Dharmasena KP, Queheillalt DT, Wadley HNG, Dudt P, Chen Y, Knight D, et al. Dynamic compression of metallic sandwich structures during planar impulsive loading in water. European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids 2010; 29: 56-67.

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