Footwear industry in Sri Lanka has survived for a long period of time and this industry has successfully catered the local market till the early 90's, but in the recent past, this industry has been seriously affected by ...

In this paper, dynamical vehicle models and Time dependent State Space model have successfully been used to detect tire pressure losses(non observabilty). When the pressure is decreased in a tire, the corresponding wheel ...

Oil palm was introduced to Sri Lanka from Malaysia in late nineteen sixties. As of now it has spread over 10,000 acres of the southern part of the Island. However the country does have only one palm oil mill processing ...

The soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) of the soil found at Pussellawa landslide site is developed for a wide range of metric suction values, based on the results obtained from a series of laboratory triaxial tests ...

Natural rubber processing factories generate large amount of wastewater containing organic pollutants and various process chemicals. The effluents exhibit high BOD, COD, NH4+-N and suspended solid concentrations. The ...

The Indian Ocean Tsunami de 'r-stated the- coastline of Sri Lanka. This paper sumrnarises the initial efforts in understanding the tsunami wave and its hydraulic impact on the Sri Lankan coastline. It focuses attention ...

There is an increasing need to implement a total business solution, which supports major functionalities of a business. ERP software is designed to meet this need, and has been adopted by many of the largescale organizations ...

Chromium is a highly soluble transition metal of vital industrial importance. It occurs in both trivalent and hexavalent forms. Due to many well identified adverse impacts of chromium to human health and natural ecosystems, ...

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

Multi-dimensional (2-D and 3-D) soil creep models are generalized from Bjerrum's I-D creep model (Bjerrum, 1967), which is based on field test data. This model is based on an expression for creep strain rate, and was ...