Most developing countries Abstract: are confronted with acute housing shortage due to their over dependence on expensive, imported building materials. So there is an intense search for innovation of locally available, ...

Shallow foundations are Abstract: commonly used in Sri Lanka for communication towers, power transmission towers and towers for wind turbines. The design of these foundations is based on several assumptions and therefore, ...

Soil Liquefaction is a process, where granular soils below the ground water table temporary lose its strength and behaved as a viscous fluid rather than a solid. The porewater pressure is suddenly increased during an ...

A driving cycle is a speed time profile which represents the driving characteristics of a selected area. This can be of use to both legislative and non legislative purposes such as development of emission inventory, ...

The objective of this research is to analyze a failure of a DBST road section using a Mechanistic - Empirical method. For this analysis, failure of A15- Trincomalee-Batticaloe road was selected.This particular road section ...

Flash floods which are becoming a common occurrence due to poor planning in the ur an areas nee user friendly tools for land managers to arrive at suitable alternatives. These tools require incorporating spatially ...

This paper is an endeavour to highlight importance of realizing potential of research in "value addition' or "making" process of concrete. Authors, based upon their cement manufacturing and construction industry, presented ...

It is in the last five years that the stakeholders of concrete paving blocks (CPBs) are awakening to engineer the CPBs in Sri Lanka. Although large scale production of CPBs has already flourished in Sri Lanka, their ...

A masonry infill wall is a common cell in a concrete framed building. More importantly the bond between concrete and masonry has considerable effect to the performance of infill masonry walls and hence to the frame structure ...