Prizes and awards
- The BINDT Annual Conference Award
- Recipient
- 5/9/2019
- Presentation Award - RCNDE ESR 2019
- Recipient
- 10/7/2019
Dr Randika Kosala Wathavana Vithanage
Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Randika received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Immediately after his graduation, he joined Toshiba Corporation in Singapore as an industrial and manufacturing engineer. At Toshiba, he held multiple key roles across their manufacturing department and received the “Employee of the Year” award in appreciation of his work. To broaden his horizons, he commenced his PhD in the United Kingdom and successfully defended the thesis titled “Industrial Robotics for Rolling-stock Maintenance”. Since then, he joined the team at the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) at the University of Strathclyde as a postdoctoral researcher and promoted to be a Knowledge Exchange Fellow and subsequently to Lecturer in Robotics. At the moment, he contributes to multiple projects mainly funded by EPSRC, InnovateUK and BEIS. Randika investigates novel techniques to perform robotically delivered in-process inspection of high-value components in aerospace, nuclear, defence and energy sectors. Randika has published several high impact research articles and delivered multiple international presentations. He is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) at Engineering Council, United Kingdom and a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
Publications
- Development of a phased array ultrasonic system for residual stress measurement in welding and additive manufacturing
- Javadi Yashar, Hutchison Alistair, Zimermann Rastislav, Lines David, Sweeney Nina E, Vasilev Momchil, Mohseni Ehsan, Vithanage Randika KW, MacLeod Charles N, Pierce Gareth, Mehnen Jorn, Gachagan Anthony
- Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference, pp. 1-9 (2022)
- Multi-layer ultrasonic imaging of as-built Wire + Arc additive manufactured components
- Zimermann Rastislav, Mohseni Ehsan, Lines David, Vithanage Randika KW, MacLeod Charles N, Pierce Stephen G, Gachagan Anthony, Javadi Yashar, Williams Stewart, Ding Jialuo
- Additive Manufacturing Vol 48 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102398
- Sensor-enabled multi-robot system for automated welding and in-process ultrasonic NDE
- Vasilev Momchil, MacLeod Charles N, Loukas Charalampos, Javadi Yashar, Vithanage Randika K W, Lines David, Mohseni Ehsan, Pierce Stephen Gareth, Gachagan Anthony
- Sensors Vol 21 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s21155077
- Model-assisted ultrasonic calibration using intentionally embedded defects for in-process weld inspection
- Mohseni Ehsan, Javadi Yashar, Sweeney Nina E, Lines David, MacLeod Charles N, Vithanage Randika KW, Qiu Zhen, Vasilev Momchil, Mineo Carmelo, Lukacs Peter, Foster Euan, Pierce S Gareth, Gachagan Anthony
- Materials and Design Vol 198 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.109330
- A phased array ultrasound roller probe for automated in-process/interpass inspection of multipass welds
- Vithanage Randika K W, Mohseni Ehsan, Qiu Zhen, MacLeod Charles, Javadi Yashar, Sweeney Nina, Pierce Gareth, Gachagan Anthony
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.3042112
- In-process calibration of a non-destructive testing system used for in-process inspection of multi-pass welding
- Javadi Yashar, Sweeney Nina E, Mohseni Ehsan, MacLeod Charles N, Lines David, Vasilev Momchil, Qiu Zhen, Vithanage Randika KW, Mineo Carmelo, Stratoudaki Theodosia, Pierce Stephen G, Gachagan Anthony
- Materials and Design Vol 195 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108981
Professional activities
- Robotics Guest Lecture
- Speaker
- 5/2/2021
- Automating Non-Destructive Testingwith 6-axis manipulators
- Speaker
- 2021
- Sensors (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 8/2020
- Applied Sciences (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 19/7/2020
- Emerald (Publisher)
- Peer reviewer
- 2/7/2020
- IEEE international ultrasound symposium (IUS) 2019
- Contributor
- 6/10/2019
Projects
- Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) - New Organisation Engagement
- Mohseni, Ehsan (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Javadi, Yashar (Principal Investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Principal Investigator)
- Non-destructive evaluation and process optimization for inspection complex components
- 15-Jan-2022 - 15-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Gover, Harry
- Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator) Gover, Harry (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- BH As-Clad Bond Integrity V1
- MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Javadi, Yashar (Co-investigator) Lines, David (Co-investigator) Mohseni, Ehsan (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator)
- 02-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2022
Address
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Technology Innovation Centre