Abstract: Colombo is the largest economic and tourist attractive city in Sri Lanka, situated geographically at 127 degree 30’ E longitude and 37 degree 00’ N latitude. The city is spread over 37.3 km2 and its present ...

Abstract: To meet the growing shipbuilding needs in Indian subcontinent, L&T Shipbuilding has set-up a modern shipyard facility at Kattupalli near Chennai, India. As part of shipyard infrastructure, a state-of the art ...

Abstract:The planned Colombo Port City (CPC) development, shown in Figure 1, comprises 450 acres of reclaimed land, 3 km of offshore breakwater, two additional breakwater revetments and a central canal. In its final stage, ...

Roads form the lifeline of any country. It is considered to be an engineered structure and the pavement is expected to serve its designed life and meet the performance criteria for better economy. Various materials constitute ...

A Water Safety Plan (WSP) for Kondawatuwana Water Supply Scheme (KWWSS) was developed by National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB). Possible hazards were identified through field visits. The risks were assessed ...

Capillary Barriers (CB) which consist of coarse sand overlain by a low permeable fine soil are low cost alternatives used in capping system for controlling the infiltration in a Landfill. In wet region, the durability ...

Large sand-bed braiding rivers such as the Brahmaputra River form an enormous challenge to understand and to control. For efficient and sustainable management of these rivers, it is vital that we can predict the effects ...

In Sri Lanka, some amount of rice husk has been used as a fuel to fire bricks. However, rice husk ash (RHA) produced from the brick firing process has not yet been utilized effectively. Objective of this study is to ...

During the last decade, the rehabilitation and improvements of road networks in Sri Lanka exhibited a rapid development. As a result many of roads were undergone for new asphalt surfacing with hot mix asphalt, at least ...

Reef breakwater is a low crested, rubble mound breakwater without a conventional multilayered cross section. It has been identified that transmission coefficient is one of the main parameters to quantify the performance ...