Vehicular transportation activities dominate the movement of passengers as well as freight In Sri Lanka. Road network improvements take place all over the country under development projects. Enormous funds have been allocated ...

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 ...

Highway infrastructure and good road network play important roles in the economic development of a country and their condition affects the economic returns. Traffic congestion is a critical problem due to poor road network ...

Rubber processing factories generate large amount of wastewater containing organic pollutants and various process chemicals. Rubber processing factory effluents exhibit high BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand), COD (Chemical ...

One of the major scourges accompanying water resource development in Sri Lanka is the explosive proliferation of water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes). A better sustainable solution to manage the infestations seems to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environment issues have played an important part in recent years at the public debates because the human family and environment faced a common challenge of surviving. Anew approach to environmental protection is now available ...