The world today has started facing bigger problems related to the concrete industry, especially with concrete becoming the most extensively used construction material in the world. At a time like this, where more ...

The present study determined the most applicable high-grade metamorphic rocks as the sources for manufactured sand and coarse aggregates production to apply in the construction industry. As the first stage of this study, ...

Code-mixing and code-switching are frequent features in online conversations. Classification of such text is challenging if one of the languages is low-resourced. Fine-tuning pre-trained multilingual language models is a ...

This study used explainable machine learning (XML), a new branch of Machine Learning (ML), to elucidate how ML models make predictions. Three tree-based regression models, Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), and Extreme ...

The modular construction industry often seeks cost-effective, high-performing, and longer-span members in buildings to ensure efficiency and quality. Accordingly, the idea of built-up sections was brought into gain numerous ...

Our research group previously proposed a simple two-dimensional (2D) constitutive model for rocks to simulate not only the axial stress–axial strain relationship, but also the axial stress–lateral strain relationship, with ...

The concepts of imageability and legibility are important aspects of urban design. Many scholars use the terms “imageability” and “legibility” interchangeably, usually examining one concept and applying the implications ...

Perry’s neighbourhood concept has been considered a substantial paradigm shift in neighbourhood planning since 1929 and has now been reaffirmed under new urbanism. Eventhough Sri Lanka has implemented several neighbourhood ...

Worldwide energy costs have grown in recent years due to the dwindling global fossil fuel resources and the increased reliance on them for global energy production. This is a common scenario in many nations, including Sri ...

The choice of proper procurement methods has an impact on the overall productivity and sustainability of construction projects. The current procurement methods have alerted the construction industry (CI) due to the ...