A laboratory study of the flow over a bar with a single rip channel has been performed. First, the well-known pattern of a bar circulation cell with a strong offshore-directed current out through the rip channel and a ...

The research primarily was based on application of principles of GIS (Geographical Information System) technology in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. With the objectives being laid towards a model to be applied in ...

Stabilization of slopes that are unstable, or that do not possess a sufficient safety margin, is a major challenge faced by geotechnical engineers. Different techniques are adopted for the stabilization purpose. In central ...

Municipal solid waste has become a major problem in every country in terms of public health and environmental damage. As a developing country, Sri Lanka too faces the same challenge not only through public health and ...

Coffee is an important global product. In fact it ranks only second to oil in traded price volatile commodities of the world - a relatively unknown fact! In most countries where coffee is produced it is for external trade ...

Combustion inside a cooking stove is complicated to understand and describe. The process is highly dependant on the inlet conditions, fuel used and the geometry of the stove. It is very difficult to predict the distributions ...

Furniture manufacture during early days was a highly skilled craft where appearance and functions were innovatively designed, but the joints were done in the traditional manner. Though high quality timber was invariably ...

The selection of an optimal public transport route structure for a transit network is a combinatorial type optimization problem. Therefore finding a good solution would not be based on theoretical network analysis ...

The presence of infusible and insoluble strong three-dimensional chemical networks in waste and used vulcanized rubbers creates a major issue. The development of a suitable technology to reverse the vulcanization process ...

Energy audit was earned out with the objective of understanding the energy use pattern of the University of Moratuwa and quantifying the patterns of energy use by different sources. A study was carried out by zoning the ...