Vijayakanthan Kunasegaram is working as a Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia since May 2023. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and both his Master of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT), Japan. He was awarded Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship from 2014 to 2019 during his post-graduate research works, his PhD research focused on centrifuge modelling of implant geotechnical structures using novel press-in-technology, in collaboration with GIKEN LTD Japan, and Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC). He also served as a lecturer in civil engineering at the department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) from 2020 to 2023.

Vijayakanthan Kunasegaram was attached to the Amira’s Future Tailings Program P1217 (Evaluation of Mine Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) Monitoring Technologies) from 2023 to 2025 and currently he is one of the project leads for the TAILLIQ V2 .  His research focused on;

• Centrifuge modelling of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) to understand the deformation and failure mechanism of tailing embankments with a rising phreatic surface.
• Centrifuge modelling of filtered tailings stacks to optimise the compaction of filtered tailings and to study the potential runout, geotechnical stability and study the consequences of flow deformation in the downstream of a TSF. .
• Shear wave velocity measurements in geotechnical centrifuge model to develop suitable monitoring strategies for tracking the structural health of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) in collaboration with Institute of Mine Seismology (IMS)
• Simulation of static liquefaction, estimation of in-situ state parameter using inflight CPTu. 

Findings from one of his centrifuge modelling works related to the simulation of static liquefaction can be accessed through the following link.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7287989943090454528/

Apart from Centrifuge modelling, he also investigating the behaviour of tailings throughout a wide range of laboratory element tests. His latest research includes the intact block testing, load controlled triaxial tests, resonant column tests, direct simple shear and cone penetration testing of tailing embankments in centrifuge.

Findings from one of his intact block tests can be accessed through the following link.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353574603736145920/