Low volume roads which are playing a pivotal role in community development, transport of people, goods, and services. Limited funding, inability to collect extensive data, subjective ad-hoc maintenance decision making has ...
Baptism is the act of ceremonial cleansing by which a person
becomes a member of a Christian church. Although baptism could
occur anywhere, the special place for baptism, either a freestanding
building or smaller font, ...
Abstract (150-300 words), covering: Para I - Introduction to and Significance of Research (50-100words), Para 2 - Objectives and Methodology (50-100 words), and Para 3 - Key results and conclusions (50-100 words) Jaya-Ganga ...
The flexural performance of heavily cracked reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with different carbon fibrereinforcedpolymer(CFRP) arrangements was investigated. In total twelve CFRP-strengthened and non-strengthened ...
Global warming and subsequent climate change have been identified as critical global issues which need urgent and close attention. Nevertheless, addressing this has become a problem due to the direct relationship between ...
The objectives of this research are to understand pedestrian’s behaviour at a disaster event, to find out pedestrian spriorities in a disaster event and to identify important pedestrian facilities for disaster events. The ...
The construction industry, being the largest industry, it generates massive quantities of
Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste. In order to eliminate C&D waste, the Zero waste
concept emerged as a potential solution. ...
Traditional Transport Models can under or overestimate the benefits when they try to model a rapidly changing economic surrounding. While looking into transport aspects, they cannot
account the changes., the transportation ...
It was more than 40 years ago that Sri Lanka last established a wind loading map after the severe cyclone that struck the country in 1978. It is strongly believed that statistical methods had not been used in developing ...
Though University libraries have positioned themselves as the main vehicles for the
organization, access, distribution and use of knowledge, current library services will
eventually be inadequate to keep pace with the ...
The role of passive solar buildings, which utilises the energy of the sun together with the
characteristics of the local climates through certain number of passive elements, is to
maintain the thermal comfort within the ...
Ethyl acetate is a solvent widely used in the chemical industry including paints, coatings,
ink production, adhesives, fragrances and pharmaceuticals. The most common strategy of
producing ethyl acetate consists in a ...
The urbanization process effects both structure and function of the cities. Therefore, the analysis
of morphological patterns of a particular urban area have evolved as a result of varying factors of
demographics, level ...
Viability of using off-grid micro hydro technology for rural electrification was first demonstrated
by the Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) in 1991. Following the
demonstration phase, ITDG carried out ...
This paper describes the development of a prototype Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA)
system. The main objective of the work was to design and implement a CDMA system, based on its fundamental
theoretical ...
Performances of pedestal and table fans were analysed through experimental measurements
of the induced flow field (velocity distribution) and the power consumption by three different
fan types (makes). A test rig was ...
Until recently timbers used for Structural purposes were limited to timber species that
had been “tried and tested” over a long period of time. Today, however, these timbers
are scarce and expensive, and it has become ...
Electricity which is the backbone of the industrial sector, plays the vital role in the development of a country. In Sri Lanka an adequate increase in the supply of electricity to meet the rising demand is unlikely to ...
Sri Lanka is presently facing a serious energy crisis due to continuous increase in energy demand
annually. One of the solutions for this is energy conservation for which houses are a good candidate.
The need for using ...