Main intention of Geophysical resistrvity surveying is to interpret the subsurface conditions for engineering applications. The earth exhibits a far from uniform structure and therefore the surface resistivity varies ...

The shear behaviour rock joints infilled with graphite, bentonite and clayey sand under eNS conditions were studied through a comprehensive laboratory testing programme to assess its influence on rock mass stability. A ...

Testing of bored piles is carried out to investigate the load-settlement behavior of the tested pile. The pile is loaded upto about l.5 times the working load to establish the loadsettlement behavior. The termination of ...

In the recent past kernel methods have been successfully applied to face recognition. We present a novel approach in frontal face recognition with informative vector machine, a sparse Gaussian process kernel classifier. ...

In industry the flow of mineral particles in silos playa very important role in the recovery of these particles into containers for bagging and transport. The silo design parameters and particulate properties are restricting ...

In recent years there was a noticeable developmental activity, especially in industrial as well as construction sectors such as roads, harbours, condominiums etc. This has enhanced and developed aggregate industry and ...

The Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project (SSCP) proposes to enable continuous shipping between the western and eastern coasts of India without circumnavigating Sri Lanka. India also believes that by having this channel the ...

Sri Lanka is predominantly a fossil fuel importing country with relatively high rainfall mainly in the central hilly region. This factor has led to the heavy dependence on hydropower to satisfy its power generation needs ...

Versatility of alkyd resins is due to its application in many different areas such as decorative paints, stoving paints (industrial paints), water dispersible alkyd paints and printing inks. Alkyd resins are also used to ...

With the increase in terrorism worldwide, blast loading has received considerable attention. In January 1996, a 400kg bomb exploded at the entrance of the Central Bank Building in Colombo causing extensive damage. Blasts ...