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CERS - 2016
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[Conference-Full-text]In Sri Lanka, almost all people have either direct or indirect connection to the groundwater resources. Rapid urbanization, deforestation and land use changes have recently incurred adverse impacts on groundwater recharge, ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Construction industry is predominantly project based and quality is one of the main concerns of customer. Hence achieving quality is one of the major tasks of a contractor. Many contractors in Sri Lanka use ISO 9001 based ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Recently, quarry dust has been widely used as a ground improvement technique to replace the weak, incompetent soil under shallow foundations when there is a high groundwater table or weak soil. Practical approaches suggest ...
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Determination of permeability characteristics and SWCC of an unsaturated residual soils in Sri Lanka [Conference-Full-text]Sri Lankan residual soils are formed by weathering of the metamorphic parent rock. Failure in slopes made of such residual soils frequently occurs due to excessive rainfall. With the rain water infiltration, soil will ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Peat is a problematic geotechnical material, which could cause large settlements when subjected to loading because of the consolidation effect. Other than the well known factors which can have an impact on consolidation ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Early age thermal cracking due to temperature differential is one of the major issues related to mass concrete construction. Temperature differential is created due to heat of hydration of cement and heat loss from the ...
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[Conference-Full-text]This paper presents results of an experimental investigation carried out to study the influence of particle shape and fines content of crushed rock fines on workability and strength of cement mortar. Different types of ...
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[Conference-Full-text]The following work is based on a comparison of timber box beams with parallel chorded timber trusses. Box type built up box beams have been adopted based on past research conducted in the Sri Lankan context. Two types ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Use of stone columns is a ground improvement technique that can be applied when high embankments are to be constructed on thick layers of soft soils. Stone columns installed in an appropriate pattern, reinforce the soft ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Open graded friction course (OGFC) has been used by several countries since 1950. While many countries report good performance, some countries have stopped using OGFC due to unacceptable performance and/or lack of adequate ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Internal curing is an emerging technology in cement concrete industry to replace the conventional curing process by supplying excess water throughout the concrete mixture. Internally curing will outperform in road ...
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[Conference-Full-text]There are plenty of alternative building materials introduced to construction industry in order to save energy. Although typical materials are used for construction, there is a trend to use alternative materials as ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Reverse Osmosis (RO) units have been installed in areas where Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) prevails to provide good quality drinking water. At present, RO reject water is directly discharged onto the ...
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[Conference-Full-text]The core-cutter method can disturb a sensitive municipal solid waste (MSW) sample when measuring dry density of the soil. A mechanism has been developed to reduce this disturbance significantly, thus trying to obtain an ...
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[Conference-Full-text]In this study, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out on comparing thermal behavior of mud concrete panels with mud concrete blocks and other walling materials. For this, actual models with different walling materials ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Rapid development of the world has resulted in many problems in the construction industry as well as to the environment. Because of the rapid development, resources have become limited and thereby the cost of existing ...