There are more than 80 electroplating units in Sri Lanka, including household units. However, the level of electroplating technology in Sri Lanka is low, and several problems of electroplating facilities with regard to ...

Currently, the process of scheduling a tournament is hampered to a great extent because it is done manually. This leads to the inefficient use of resources (the most important of which is time) in the development of a ...

According to the statistics on energy consumption by source, fossil fuel is dominant; this will possibly result in environmental pollution causing certain hazards to all living matter. But there should be some way to get ...

Improper construction techniques, poor quality of materials and incorrect quantities of binder and aggregate used are the possible reasons for the inferior quality of surface dressings. Premature failure due to the first ...

Fillers playa major role in the rubber industry with respect to their effect on properties of vulcanised rubber and the compound's cost. For most applications rubber compounds are loaded with reinforcing carbon black fillers ...

A country must produce what its people want, or more, for it to develop or even to survive. Academic knowledge alone cannot produce any tangible product on its own. This when converted to practically useable knowledge, ...

In metal rolling and in calendaring operations, the raw material is squeezed through two horizontal cylindrical rollers rotating in opposite directions. The thickness of the sheet coming out of the two rollers must be kept ...

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart). Solms) is considered as a serious pest in many lakes, irrigation canals, stagnant ponds, waterways and semi-wet areas in Sri Lanka. Bolgoda Lake has been severely affected by ...

Dispatching of buses on a route is a vital element of a good bus service, whether the private sector or the government operates it. Buses could be dispatched according to two general criteria, i.e. economic and financial. ...

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 ...