Earthquake resistant structures are not mandatory in countries located away from earthquake prone zones such as Sri Lanka. However after the occurrence of 2004 Tsunami, and considering possible environmental changers and ...

In water supply schemes, concrete structures are used to store the required quantity of water for distribution for an area. In the case of design of these structures, a precise and accurate analysis is considered as a ...

Today people around the world wake up, eat, live and sleep with terrorism. It has become a global menace. As a citizen lives in a country hit by a civil war for over three decades gave me motive and courage to set off this ...

The National Road network of Sri Lanka consists of 4326 bridges. There are 365 bridges which Have the length more than 30m .Only 800 bridges are made of prestressed concrete superstructures and all others are with reinforced ...

Earthquake threat has been identified by many countries and analysis and design against seismic effects have therefore become almost a basic part of their structural design process. Sri Lanka has also identified the ...

Portal frame structures are very popular in industrial buildings due to their pleasing appearance and shorter construction period. In Sri Lanka too, steel construction is increasingly being used for single storey buildings. ...

The “intze” type water tanks are economical for storing large capacities of water. Therefore accurate analysis of these structures is essential. Modern trend is to use computer software for analysis and design of structures. ...

Transmission line towers were mainly used in electrification works in all over the world. Optimization of base width of the transmission towers becomes necessary in order to reduce the cost and to avoid public objection. ...

In present era,conventional Reinforced Concrete(RC) frame buildings are commonly used for the construction. The use of flat slab building provides many advantages over conventional RC frame building in terms of architectural ...

Concrete box structures are mainly used in railway and highway projects as culverts or frame bridges. Structural engineers prefer to do finite element method (FEM) analysis using shell or frame element models to obtain ...