In Sri Lanka, almost all people have either direct or indirect connection to the groundwater resources. Rapid urbanization, deforestation and land use changes have recently incurred adverse impacts on groundwater recharge, ...

The following work is based on a comparison of timber box beams with parallel chorded timber trusses. Box type built up box beams have been adopted based on past research conducted in the Sri Lankan context. Two types ...

Sri Lankan residual soils are formed by weathering of the metamorphic parent rock. Failure in slopes made of such residual soils frequently occurs due to excessive rainfall. With the rain water infiltration, soil will ...

Internal curing is an emerging technology in cement concrete industry to replace the conventional curing process by supplying excess water throughout the concrete mixture. Internally curing will outperform in road ...

Peat is a problematic geotechnical material, which could cause large settlements when subjected to loading because of the consolidation effect. Other than the well known factors which can have an impact on consolidation ...

In this study, a sensitivity analysis has been carried out on comparing thermal behavior of mud concrete panels with mud concrete blocks and other walling materials. For this, actual models with different walling materials ...

Early age thermal cracking due to temperature differential is one of the major issues related to mass concrete construction. Temperature differential is created due to heat of hydration of cement and heat loss from the ...

Reverse Osmosis (RO) units have been installed in areas where Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) prevails to provide good quality drinking water. At present, RO reject water is directly discharged onto the ...