There has been a significant growth in the residential apartment market in Sri Lanka during the last decade. The main reasons behind this upsurge include the growth of population, changes in living patterns and the soaring ...
A blast event lies within the social system and involves people. Hence vulnerability to blast loading can be considered a socio-technical or "soft" system, where our ability to model and hence predict bounds on behaviour ...
Estimates available to date in Sri Lanka shows that the transport sector is responsible for majority share of the most of the gaseous emissions to the environment with compared to any other sector such as industry, ...
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is characterized by high flowability and segregation
resistance. With the aid of these properties, SCC can be compacted into all corners of
a formwork without using an external source of ...
Electrodialysis is now recognized as a cleaner technology for reclaiming waste chemical solutions including industrial effluents contaminated with heavy metals. Compared with the conventional separation methods (chemical ...
Theories and formulations developed for the behaviour of unsaturated soils incorporate the behaviour of saturated soils as a special case, leading to a generalization of the theory on mechanics for soils. The net normal ...
Several major proposed infrastructure development are being planned over areas underlain by weak or soft soils. One such project is the Colombo-Katunayaka Expressway (CKE). This passes over the peaty soils of Muthurajawela ...
The importance of cost estimating is well recognized as it predicts the costs of construction and provides a basis for the contractor to submit a bid for a project. As each project is unique and no two are quite a like, ...
The study was particularly concentrated on identifying the causes of road deterioration, road defects and determining the most important parameters which could be used to predict the rate of deterioration particularly in ...
Over the last couple of decades there has been a growing concern regarding the marine pollution due to spill of oil from ship operations and accidents. This is because the oil spills have devastation and obnoxious effect ...
In this research study the longitudinal Splitting of concrete-steel composite structures has been investigated. Longitudinal Splitting can be identified as one of the common problem exist at serviceability limit state of ...
In many countries the transportation planning process is currently turning from the unlimited expansion of the infrastructure to the improvement of the efficiency of the existing systems. This demands the development of ...
Pedestrians are legitimate users of the transportation system and they should, therefore, be able to use this system safely and without unreasonable delay. Pedestrians have a right to cross roads safely, Planers and ...
Road traffic injuries are a critical public health problem in Sri Lanka. As social and financial costs of traffic injuries are colossal. There is an urgent need to inquire about the number of accidents. A significant number ...
Most products have service elements, just as most services have product elements. Thus client satisfaction is a formulation of both product and service quality. However, whilst reviewing literature pertaining to the ...