Professor Kandiah Arulanandan (2 August 1925 – 11 August 2004) was a Ceylon Tamil engineer and academic. Known as Professor Arul, he was a lecturer at the University of California, Davis.

Early life and family

Arulanandan was born on 2 August 1925. He was the son of V. Kandiah and Sivakolunthu from Achchuveli in northern

British Ceylon British Ceylon ( si, බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Britānya Laṃkāva; ta, பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Biritthāṉiya Ilaṅkai) was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between ...

. He was educated at the American Mission School in Achchuveli and Jaffna College,

Vaddukoddai Vaddukoddai (also spelt Vattukkottai, Vatukotai, Vattukotai) ( ta, வட்டுக்கோட்டை, si, වඩුකෝඩයි) is small but important town in the minority group, minority Sri Lankan Tamils, Sri Lankan Tamil dominated J ...

from where he passed the London matriculation in the First Division. After school he joined the University of Ceylon from where he graduated with degree in science. He then went to the University of Cambridge from where he obtained a Tripos degree in soil mechanics. Arulanandan married Rajeswary, daughter of P. Velauthapillai and Meenambikai. They had three children (Dr Chandranandan, Sivanandan and Rohini Solos).

Career

After graduation Arulanandan received training on road research in the UK. Then from 1953 to 1957 he worked as a senior materials engineer in the Gold Coast. Between 1957 and 1958 he worked at the University of Cambridge under Professor Roscoe. Arulanandan returned to Ghana in 1959 to work as a senior materials engineer. In 1963 he joined the University of California, Berkeley from where he graduated with a Ph.D. He was then appointed to engineering faculty at the University of California, Davis. Arulanandan went on to become professor of engineering and specialised in

geotechnical engineering Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It als ...

Death

Arulanandan died at the

Kaiser Permanente Hospital Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Pe ...

, Walnut Creek, California on 11 August 2004. He was 79.

References

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