Floods can be considered as one of the natural hazards which cause destructive effects on the existence of mankind. Most of the mortalities have taken place due to damages in masonry walls of unreinforced masonry structures. ...

Urban commercial development is an integral part of the urban land use that affects the trip generation pattern in the city. Lack of adequate parking facilities will impact the road network as it will lead to on-street ...

Masonry buildings are the most typical structural type which is commonly used for ancient historical structures and low to medium rise residential units from early days to present. However, increase in world population and ...

Transport planning and management are required to provide quality and reliable transport service. Collection of data required for this purpose has been always a challenge and obtaining reliable traffic information will ...

New designs for space structures such as solar sails and star shades are based on architectures that follow folding and packaging ofthin membranes. By leveraging recent advances in origami science, it is possible to design ...

The necessity of deployable mechanisms in the field of aerospace is inevitable due to volume limitations in the launch vehicles. Use of mechanical hinges with motors and springs for actuation make the structure heavy and ...

Construction workers are the basic unit of the construction industry. The behaviour of construction workers is considered variable, which impacts on worker productivity. Therefore, obtaining the highest levels of performance ...

Ultra thin woven composites are extensively used in deployable space structures, particularly on deployable booms which are responsible to deploy and hold key components in space missions. Due to high weight sensitivity ...

A unique characteristic of dry zone rainfall is its higher peak rainfall, even though the annual rainfall is relatively low. Jaffna peninsula is located in the northernmost part of Sri Lanka and faces these critical storm ...

This research focused on introducing a new mechanism to measure the effective earth pressure and total earth pressure in one degree of freedom sensor system. To identify the structural deformation with respect to the ...