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Shear performance of SupaCee sections with openings: Numerical studies

Thirunavukkarasu, Kajaharan; Kanthasamy, Elilarasi; Poologanathan, Keerthan; Tsavdaridis, Konstantinos Daniel; Gatheeshgar, Perampalam; Hareindirasarma, Sivayokesvarasarma; McIntosh, Alex [Article-Full-text]

Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) sections provide many design and construction sophistications including lightweight and high strength-to-weight ratio. The SupaCee section was introduced to CFS industry due to its cost ...
Privacy-Preserving in-bed pose monitoring

Dayarathna, T; Muthukumarana, T; Rathnayaka, Y; Denman, S; de Silva, C; Pemasiri, A; Aristizabal, DA [Article-Full-text]

Background and objectives: Recently, in-bed human pose estimation has attracted the interest of researchers due to its relevance to a wide range of healthcare applications. Compared to the general problem of human pose ...
Fire performance of lightweight concrete-filled LSF wall panels

Upasiri, I.R.; Konthesigha, K.M.C.; Nanayakkara, SMA; Poologanathan, K.; Gatheeshgar, P.; Perera, D. [Article-Full-text]

Light Gauge Steel Frame (LSF) wall panels with cold-formed thin-walled steel-Lipped Channel Sections (LCS) and plasterboard linings are increasingly used in the construction industry due to their lightweight and constructability ...
Ontology based sentiment analysis for fake review detection

Vidanagama, D.U.; Silva, A.T.P.; Karunananda, A.S. [Article-Full-text]

Majority of customers and manufacturers who tend to purchase and trade via e-commerce websites primarily rely on reviews before making purchasing decisions and product improvements. Deceptive reviewers consider this ...
Collective diffusion of charged nanoparticles in microchannel under electric field

Wang, Zhichao; Yu, Hongping; Liyanage, Achini; Qiu, Junjie; Thushara, Dilantha; Bao, Bo; Zhao, Shuangliang [Article-Full-text]

Controllable manipulation of the diffusion of nanoparticles through adopting external fields plays an important role in both separation and delivery of nanoparticles. This work demonstrates that external electric field ...
Air pollutant dispersion around high-rise building cluster forms: the case of Port City, Colombo, Sri Lanka Malithie Vidanapathirana

Vidanapathirana, M; Perera, N; Emmanuel, R; Coorey, S [Article-Full-text]

Air quality in dense urban environments is a growing concern, especially in rapidly developing cities. In the face of growing traffic associated with urbanization, there is evidence for high levels of pollutant concentration ...
Oxidative torrefaction of microalga Nannochloropsis Oceanica activated by potassium carbonate for solid biofuel production

Zhang, Congyu; Li, Fanghua; Ho, Shih-Hsin; Chen, Wei-Hsin; Gunarathne, Duleeka Sandamali; Show, Pau Loke [Article-Full-text]

Oxidative torrefaction is a promising way for biomass upgrading and solid biofuel production. Alkali metals are considered to be efficient activators for enhancing biofuel upgrading during the thermal reaction process. ...
Sri Lanka journals online (SLJOL) as a platform for scholarly journal publications by state universities of Sri Lanka

Seneviratne, TM; Peiris, KPND [Article-Full-text]
Thermal sensitivity of CFRP/Steel bond exposed to prolonged water ingress

Perera, UNPD; Chandrathilaka, ERK; Kahandawa Arachchi, KADYT; Gamage, JCPH [Article-Full-text]

Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) strengthened steel outdoor and submerged structures could be often exposed to water at a range of temperatures. According to the authors’ knowledge, no study has identified the ...
Controllable preparation of two-dimensional oriented BaTiO3 polycrystals from K0.8Ti1.73Li0.27O4 crystals by a one-step solvothermal process

Li, Lijie; Yao, Minggang; Yang, Dandan; Wang, Yan; Miao, Lei; Pu, Xiaohua; Sewvandi, Galhenage A.; Fan, Mingjin; Feng, Qi; Hu, Dengwei [Article-Full-text]

Titanate precursors play an important role in obtaining oriented titanate materials via topochemical conversion. In this study, a two-dimensional (2D) K0.8Ti1.73Li0.27O4 (KTLO) crystal was successfully prepared by a ...
Performance based energy, ecological and financial costs of a sustainable alternative cement

Kulasuriya, Chandana; Vimonsatit, Vanissorn; Dias, W.P.S. [Article-Full-text]

This paper presents a comparison of the energy and ecological impacts and financial costs of Alkali Pozzolan Cement (APC), High Volume Fly Ash (HVFA) cement and Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) mixtures. The embodied energy, ...
A thin-walled vacuum actuator (ThinVAc) and the development of multi-filament actuators for soft robotic applications

Kulasekera, Asitha L.; Arumathanthri, Rancimal B.; Chathuranga, Damith S.; Gopura, R.A.R.C.; Lalitharatne, Thilina D. [Article-Full-text]

Most contemporary soft actuators tend to have a large cross-sectional area that prevents easy integration with wearable devices. Therefore, soft actuators ideal for wearable device integration should be capable of being ...
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets

Kreutzer, J.; Caswell, I; Wang, L; Wahab, A.; van Esch, D; Ulzii-Orshikh, N; Tapo, A; Subramani, N; Sokolov, A; Sikasote, C; Setyawan, M; Sarin, S.; Samb, S.; Sagot, B; Rivera, C.; Rios, A; Papadimitriou, I.; Osei, S.; Suarez, P. O; Adeyemi, M [Article-Full-text]

With the success of large-scale pre-training and multilingual modeling in Natural Language Processing (NLP), recent years have seen a proliferation of large, Web-mined text datasets covering hundreds of languages. We ...
Liquefied natural gas exports from Canada to China: An analysis of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMO)

Kotagodahetti, Ravihari; Hewage, Kasun; Karunathilake, Hirushie; Prabatha, Tharindu; Krishnan, Harish; Kasumu, Adebola S.; Bryant, Tyler; Sadiq, Rehan [Article-Full-text]

The ever-increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide make it quite challenging to meet country-specific Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets. Therefore, it is evident that the existing ...
Cyanobacteria pigment production in wastewater treated for heavy metal removal

Thevarajah, B; Nishshanka, GKSH; Premaratne, M; Wasath, WAJ; Nimarshana, PHV; Malik, A; Ariyadasa, TU [Article-Full-text]

Cyanobacterial pigments have an evolving market demand as natural colorants with numerous health benefits and diversified applications. Nevertheless, scaling up cyanobacterial pigment production to meet the market demand ...
Long-term feasibility of carbon capturing in community energy systems: A system dynamics-based evaluation

Kotagodahetti, Ravihari; Hewage, Kasun; Karunathilake, Hirushie; Sadiq, Rehan [Article-Full-text]

The global climate is being heavily affected by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the most significant of which is carbon dioxide (CO2). According to the Pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change, Canada has ...
Shear behaviour of doubly symmetric rectangular hollow flange beam with circular edge-stiffened openings

Kanthasamy, Elilarasi; Thirunavukkarasu, Kajaharan; Poologanathan, Keerthan; Gatheeshgar, Perampalam; Todhunter, Shaun; Suntharalingam, Thadshajini; Ishqy, Muhammadh Fareedh Muhammadh; Fareedh Muhammadh Ishqy, Muhammadh [Article-Full-text]

Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) sections are evolved through the last two decades compromising various aspects of construction needs. Doubly symmetric Rectangular Hollow Flange Beam (RHFB) is one of the innovative CFS sections, ...
Effect of a dark-colored substrate on the production of phycocyanin by the cyanobacterium Phormidium sp

Mastropetros, SG; Pispas, K; Zagklis, D; Tsigkou, K; Ali, SS; Ariyadasa, TU; Kornaros, M [Article-Full-text]

As the biotechnological production of valuable compounds has recently gathered research interest, more and more photosynthetic microorganisms are being examined for the synthesis of proteins, fatty acids, pigments, ...
Analysing wrinkle interaction behaviour with Z-fold crease pattern in thin-film planar membrane reflector

Kamaliya, Parth K.; Shukla, Ajitesh; Upadhyay, S.H.; Mallikarachchi, H.M.Y.C. [Article-Full-text]

Limited stowage volume of launch vehicles demands compact packaging of large deployable membrane structures. Employment of different folding approaches led to the unavoidable fold-lines(creases). Moreover, wrinkle reduction ...
Contribution of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms) grown under different nutrient conditions to Fe-removal mechanisms in constructed wetlands

Jayaweera, Mahesh W.; Kasturiarachchi, Jagath C.; Kularatne, Ranil K.A.; Wijeyekoon, Suren L.J. [Article-Full-text]

Severe contamination of water resources including groundwater with iron (Fe) due to various anthropogenic activities has been a major environmental problem in industrial areas of Sri Lanka. Hence, the use of the obnoxious ...

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