In a developing Country like Sri Lanka, it is very important to plan and manage its land development programmes to attract investments to develop land resources. In this context special emphasis should be given to urban ...

Basic technical education provided to fresh school leavers can be divided into four main categories according to the depths of subject matter taught and the skills involved: craft level, certificate level, diploma level ...

Traffic Incident Analysis is used for the analysis of bottlenecks or traffic incidents (such as road closure, accidents, and effect due to a slow moving vehicle etc.) which might significantly change normal / existing ...

In this paper, dynamical vehicle models and Time dependent State Space model have successfully been used to detect tire pressure losses(non observabilty). When the pressure is decreased in a tire, the corresponding wheel ...

As a solution to the environmental damage caused by the synthetic polymers in wasted materials, the use of biodegradable polymers has gained much attention during the last couple of years. The current research involved ...

Oil palm was introduced to Sri Lanka from Malaysia in late nineteen sixties. As of now it has spread over 10,000 acres of the southern part of the Island. However the country does have only one palm oil mill processing ...

The water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms.) plants in lakes and reservoirs have gained considerable attention in tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world due to its rapid growth. The amount of nutrients ...

This report presents the development of proto type of a Vibrating Sieve. The preliminary objective of this project is to design a prototype of a vibrating sieve to be used for clay refinery process, which can be easily ...

This report presents the development of a Foundation Design Software System. The preliminary objective of this project is to develop the correlation between soil profile and allowable bearing capacity for any type of ...

The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) of the soil found at Pussellawa landslide site is developed for a wide range of metric suction values, based on the results obtained from a series of laboratory triaxial tests ...