Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering: Recent submissions

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A Tool to assess and improve the construction worker productivity

Karunarathna DMTGNM [Thesis-Full-text]

Construction workers are the basic unit of the construction industry. The behaviour of construction workers is considered variable, which impacts on worker productivity. Therefore, obtaining the highest levels of performance ...
Defluoridation of potable water in CKDu prevalent areas of Sri Lanka by functionalized modified-fly ash

Perera WDMC [Thesis-Full-text]

The last two decades marked a progressive increase in an epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown (‘u’) origin (CKDu) among the farming communities in Sri Lanka. In the presence of the combination of fluoride, with ...
An Assessment of wind loading and wind energy potential for Sri Lanka

Maduranga WLS [Thesis-Full-text]

It was more than 40 years ago that Sri Lanka last established a wind loading map after the severe cyclone that struck the country in 1978. It is strongly believed that statistical methods had not been used in developing ...
An Evaluation of critical risk factors in local condominium developments through analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

Ranasinghe ARMDNB [Thesis-Full-text]

Within the last few decades, the Sri Lankan construction industry is experiencing significant growth in high-rises, particularly the condominiums in Colombo and other highly urbanized areas in Sri Lanka. It is also evident ...
Reducing non-revenue water to improve pipe borne water supply in Panadura-Horana region

Nishanthi P [Thesis-Full-text]

Panadura -Horan water supply scheme is the second oldest water supply system in Sri Lanka and have many issues with old deteriorating pipes. Amongst them, Non-Revenue Water (NRW) is the most affecting problem as it shows ...
Development of a resilience measurement tool to evaluate the community resilience

Perera GMCA [Thesis-Full-text]

The frequency of disasters and emergencies has increased rapidly during the past few decades and it is necessary to conduct more research in this field to improve the knowledge levels and capacities of individuals/systems. ...
Predicting non - linear bending behaviour of ultra - thin woven fibre composites

Wijesuriya HS [Thesis-Full-text]

Ultra thin woven composites are extensively used in deployable space structures, particularly on deployable booms which are responsible to deploy and hold key components in space missions. Due to high weight sensitivity ...
A Study on applicable delay analysis techniques of the building construction industry in Sri Lanka

Gamage L [Thesis-Full-text]

The construction industry in Sri Lanka are being implemented various standards to complete the projects in time to achieve satisfaction of stakeholders and to face the competitiveness over getting contracts in order to ...
Ex-post environmental and social review of involuntary resettlement housing schemes in Sri Lanka

Abeysinghe UM [Thesis-Full-text]

Worst natural disaster recorded in the recent history of Sri Lanka was tsunami 2004. Two third of the Sri Lanka coastline was hit by tsunami wave and took over 40,000 lives and made millions dollars‘worth of property lost. ...
Development of criteria for forming and maintaining a sludge blanket in an upflow sludge blanket clarifier/pulsator

Illangasinghe IMWK [Thesis-Full-text]

Coagulation and flocculation is attained within a sludge (floc) blanket of an upward flow clarifier unit. In this study cohesivity of the floc blanket, measured by the indicator sludge cohesion coefficient (SCC) is used ...
A Case study on sustainable restoration approach for cascade pond systems in Jaffna municipal council area for effective flood management

Thilakarathne JASI [Thesis-Full-text]

A unique characteristic of dry zone rainfall is its higher peak rainfall, even though the annual rainfall is relatively low. Jaffna peninsula is located in the northernmost part of Sri Lanka and faces these critical storm ...
Investigation of creases in ultra - thin membranes

Dassanayake DMSP [Thesis-Full-text]

The use of thin membranes is widespread in a variety of applications in a range of industries owing to the lightweight nature and small packaged volume attainable by them. When facilitating the storage of large areas of ...
Development of a sensor system to investigate the arching action of soil

Bandara, AMDC [Thesis-Full-text]

This research focused on introducing a new mechanism to measure the effective earth pressure and total earth pressure in one degree of freedom sensor system. To identify the structural deformation with respect to the ...
To perform an economic analysis of microtunneling with special reference to the Colombo city

Kanakaratne UWVDS [Thesis-Full-text]

The city growth taken place with the economies, there had been a development of the infrastructure facilities such as water, electricity, sewer, storm water, gas, and telecommunication. Some of these services were in the ...
Identifying and analyzing factors that cause for turnover of construction tradesmen in military services Sri Lanka

Kollalpitiya KMDDB [Thesis-Full-text]

Human resource component of construction industry plays vital role in achieving project deliverable in time with expected quality and cost. Labour turnover is one of governing factors that contributes for project delays ...
Spatial and temporal analysis of rainfall and drought and development of a drought prediction model by using multi-model ensembled approach

Hendawitharana SU [Thesis-Full-text]

Drought is one of the major catastrophes faced by most of the countries in recent times. Studies have been carried out to find underlying patterns and to implement forecasting systems specified for a particular region. ...
Effectiveness of entrepreneurship education for engineering students of Sri Lankan universities

Hirimuthugodage K [Thesis-Full-text]

Entrepreneurship has been identified as a key factor for economic growth and social transformation. It plays an important role in providing economic development and new technologies as well as decreasing unemployment and ...
Inspection and assessment system of highway bridges in Sri Lanka

Indrajith WPR [Thesis-Full-text]

Highway Bridges play a key role in the road based transportation system. There are 4456 highway bridges in Class A, Class B and Class AB roads in Sri Lanka, as per the "Annual Report, Road Development Authority – 2015". ...
Basinwide analysis of water resources and pollute transport using a distributed parameter model

Dahanayake AC [Thesis-Full-text]

The Nachchaduwa sub-catchment (598.74 km2) of the Malwathu Oya basin is seasonally stressed in the dry periods and its downstream parts undergo intermittent floods during monsoon seasons while the fate and behaviour of ...
Application of dynamic and vibro compaction methods for densification of granular fill in reclaimed land in Sri Lanka

Samarasinghe AI [Thesis-Full-text]

In the recent past, Government of Sri Lanka executed a large-scale reclamation project in Sri Lanka to add a brand-new land of 267-hectare to the Capital, Colombo with strategy of converting Colombo as a commercial hub ...

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