If we accept that the only worthwhile building is building that is architecture, the title borrowed from Christopher Alexander (CA) contains within it as astounding amount of wisdom which keeps unravelling greater depths ...
The tradition is the opinion or belief or custom handed down from ancestors to posterity. The tradition is not static, it is the product of the functional demand adopted with the nature and environment, flavoured with ...
Sri Lanka is considered to be in an aseismic zone (zone 0) away from major plate boundaries or any active faults. However, the first Earthquake hazard recorded on 14th April 1615 in Colombo with about 2000 deaths and ...
It has been observed that the bending stiffness of thin composites made with
two ply plain-weave carbon fibre reinforced plastic are not accurately modelled by classical laminate theory. More accurate predictions can be ...
Low cycle fatigue is an important design consideration for large steel structures and metallic machine components. Accurate prediction of fatigue endurance is essential to design the elements subjected to fatigue. The ...
A deployable structure should mainly be adequately compact and should fit into any remaining space of the launch vehicle. The main factors which will determine these are the folding pattern, ease of deployment and stresses ...
In Sri Lanka, "mud wall construction" has an enormous history, which spans covering wide
range, however this was gradually rejecting, with the replacement of new building materials. Therefore, it is important to bring the ...
Tbe mcrease in mobile phone use and newer technologies, like wireless email and web access, has created virtual explosion in tower construction Even though, there are labour legislations in Sri T-anka regarding safety ...
The Mahaweli river commences from the central mountainous region
of the country at an elevation of about 8,000 ft. Due to its large mean
annual run-off and the drop in elevation, the Mahaweli river possesses
a considerable ...
In this era of globalisation and fierce competition amongst businesses, most companies around the world faces relentless pressure to reduce cost, add value and support business goals for sustainability. Hence, innovative ...
Tourism has been identified as a major growth area in post-conflict development in Sri Lanka and it was aimed to attract 2.5 million tourists by 2016. Consumer perceived value is a complex theoretical construct that can ...
Global warming is one of the major challenges that the current world is facing. Sri Lanka,
being a small island, is inevitably undergone by the adverse impacts of it. Hence, it is significant to implement strategies to ...
Construction is one of the booming industries in the present context. With the rapid
development in past couple of decades, it has become one of the driving industries of most the economies in the world. Telecommunication ...
Bilateral tele-operation involves realization of the law of action and reaction between the human and the environment. In this research, an embedded system based bilateral control was developed on a microcontroller based ...
Work related attitudes, such as perceived organizational support, turnover intention, job satisfaction, affective commitment, and job involvement, have received much attention by academics and practitioners for a number ...
Clusters identified as special type of agglomeration of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) activities in a specific geographical location with unique functional dimensions. Clusters give birth and legs to cluster ...
Successful accomplishment of a project requires effective management of its
performance. The performance of the most construction projects is tracked utilizing
planned cost vs. actual cost measures only. Earned Value ...
This case study research attempts to discover critical success factors (CSFs) for E-Business success in Sri Lanka with special reference to text books and stationery. The study was mainly carried out through a questionnaire ...
Named data networking or information centric networking is the newest networking paradigm that gives foremost place to the contents in identification and dissemination. On the other hand, the end to end networking paradigm ...