The inherent environmental friendliness of a chemical process plant is assessed quantitatively based on its short-term atmospheric impacts due to a catastrophic release of the entire inventory of chemicals. In a catastrophic ...

The increased concern for the security of the oil supply and the negative impact of fossil fuels on the environment, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, has put pressure on society to find renewable fuel alternatives. ...

Five full-size concrete replacement slabs were constructed and tested by a heavy vehicle simulator HVS at 6 h after concrete placement to study the early strength requirement of concrete for slab replacement. Stress ...

Maximum facade performance with minimum life cycle cost of cleaning. repair. replacement and downtime can be achieved at the 'optimum maintainability' of facade in spite of various Ii sk fac tors. A condition stuvey of 450 ...

This paper describes how some aspects of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy resonate strongly with an engineering outlook. He argued that practice was more “primordial” than theory, though preserving an important role for ...

Urbanisation leads to increased thermal stress in hot-humid climates due to increased surface and air temperatures and reduced wind speed. We examined the influence of urban morphology and sea breeze on the microclimate ...

Around 300 000 people were killed by the tsunami that followed the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake on Boxing Day 2004, making it one of the worst disasters in modern history. Up to 40 000 died in Sri Lanka alone, where around ...

This paper presents an analytic study of a singlemode linear reflection-transmission-grating (RTG)-based twodimensional- integrated-optic (2DIO) N × N wavelength router. To determine its performance, the optical field ...

A neural network (NN) adaptive model-based combined lateral and longitudinal vehicle control algorithm for highway applications is presented in this paper. The controller is synthesized using a proportional plus derivative ...

Preparing new accession lists is a conventional current awareness service in academic and other libraries of Sri Lanka. New accession list normally contains a list of bibliographic records of items added to the library ...