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 ...

Bored and cast in situ bored piles are used to support the heavy super structure loads, while transferring them the hard rock layers. Because of that, in order to design single piles or group piles, it is very important ...

Engineers involved in infrastructure development projects in the hilly terrain of Sri Lanka encounter ancient landslides which could be triggered by rainfall or construction activities. One such landslide was encountered ...

‘Modulus of subgrade reaction’ is the ratio between the pressure applied on the soil and the corresponding settlement. There is no theoretical relationship found to obtain equivalent subgrade modulus of layered soil. Top ...

Instabilities and failures in rock slopes occur due to numerous factors such as unfavorable slope geometries, geological discontinuities, weak or weathered materials in the slopes, existing weather conditions and environmentally ...