Vulnerable road users (VRUs), including pedestrians, cyclists, motor cyclists, and three-wheeler users, account for a significant proportion of global traffic fatalities, particularly in low-middle-income countries. In Sri ...
The Sri Lankan government allocates a significant amount of its yearly capital expenditure toward road infrastructure projects. Since the end of the war terror in 2009, the Road Development Authority (RDA) has invested ...
A structure would be more sustainable if maintenance problems and associated costs are minimized. Most of the concrete bridges have been constructed in Sri Lanka with expansion joints. It results in frequent maintenance ...
The use of CFRP for strengthening and retrofitting concrete structures has become famous throughout the world in the past few decades due to its advantages over conventional materials. However, the main drawback to use ...
Tree roots play a major role in ground and slope stabilization by increasing the strength and stiffness of the soil positively. When evaluating how vegetation affects ground improvement, tree roots are the primary factor ...
This research focuses on the assessment of train-induced ground vibrations through experimental analysis and the development of a Finite Element (FE) prediction model. The study aims to evaluate the ...
The goal of this study was to identify the key competencies of a client who is responsible for the success of a health sector project in Sri Lanka. A literature review was carried out to determine the client's competency ...
Sri Lankan construction industry is experiencing a boom. The lack of skilled labor in the construction sector causes numerous problems for projects. Many medium sized construction projects heavily rely on skilled labor to ...
Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including rising land and sea temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, more extreme weather events, and sea-level rise. Notably, climate change has been ...
Floods are frequent and devastating natural disasters, causing significant social and economic losses worldwide. Flood modelling plays a crucial role in predicting and mitigating the impacts of floods. In recent years, ...
Incorporating sustainability into university education enhances the knowledge of the students to practice sustainability concepts in their professional life.This research was conducted to determine how the university ...
Cavitation is a major source of damage to hydraulic structures and hydraulic machinery and leads to failure of function. In all forms of cavitation (fixed, travelling, vortex and vibratory) low ambient pressures and high ...
Structural health monitoring helps to protect infrastructure by guiding timely
interventions. Distributed Fibre Optic Sensing (DFOS) is one such monitoring
technique with significant advantages such as continuous measurement ...
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) strengthening technique had been shown
excellent performance in externally strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) elements
due to their superior properties compared to the alternative ...
Structural optimization of solids aims to find the optimal designs of structures by
minimizing a constrained objective function such as the material compliance within a
given problem domain. This constrained optimization ...
Design of large space structures is restricted due to the limited storage capacity of
launch vehicles. Deployable structures made with ultra-thin woven fibre composites
eliminates this bottleneck due to self-deploying ...
Steel structures such as steel bridges greatly contribute to the socio economic development of
the world. The current traffic demand has exhausted the service life of steel bridges paving the
way for failures without ...
Past records depict that both the intensity and frequency of climatic-related hazards are
increasing devastatingly. Although the number of deaths caused by these extreme events
has been comparatively less recently, the ...
Commuting by bicycle is a sustainable transport strategy and has advantages over other modes of transport, both for the commuter and for society. The social cohesion that can bring through recreational opportunities also ...
Sugarcane molasses-based ethanol industries in Sri Lanka generate large volumes of
high strength spent wash, causing severe environmental issues. The potential toxicity
of spent wash on biological systems and the possibility ...