While most of industries in Industrial Zones are connected to the centralized wastewater treatment plants, a large number of scattered industries and business facilities are served by on-site (decentralized) wastewater ...

Getting dressed for work used to be pretty simple for administrative professionals and other office workers. Men used to wear a suit and a tie, and women would dress in a tailored dress or a skirt suit. In earlier days ...

This paper investigates the methods of improving the lateral stability of variable height truss type steel bridges that are used for pedestrian purposes in Sri Lanka. A bridge is a structure that provides passage without ...

6xxx series aluminum alloys have a combination of medium strength, good corrosion resistance, excellent formability, good weldability, easy recycling and especially good heat treatability. AA 6063 alloy is the most widely ...

Regular periodic calibration is important to ensure the accuracy of measurements of British pendulum test (BPT). The current standard calibration procedures of BS EN 13036 and ASTM E303 are widely adopted by pavement ...

The purpose of this study is to introduce an Improved Method for Sri Lankan apparel industry as a continuous tool for improving the labour productivity through analyzing the activities and motions of sewing sections’ ...

The maximum power of a PV module represents variations due to temperature, irradiation and load. In the conventional mode maximum power point tracking algorithms are applied to maximize efficiency, reliability by constantly ...

This paper proposes a novel method to segment video sequences which undergoes gradual changes into foreground and background layers. The background layer contains all objects which have been stationary since the beginning ...

An accurate understanding of power transformer high frequency behavior is very important to assess the impacts on power system due to transient over-voltage conditions. An improved method of modeling power transformer ...

Columns are one of the most critical structural components of any structure. Column strengthening requirements are risen due to many reasons in relation to rehabilitation and improvements of existing buildings. Additional ...