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  • Do bea methods fulfil needs of global sustainability initiatives? 
    Weerasinghe, UGD; Ruwanpura, JY [Conference-Full-text]
    The last two decades witnessed the notion of sustainable development making its way into growth of all facets of society, including the building industry, which makes a significant impact on the social, environmental and ...
  • Do steel transmission towers in Sri Lanka have an optimum base width? 
    Hettiarachchi, MTP; Baskaran, K; Ganeshwaran, R
    Structural engineers responsible for designing transmission towers optimize the cost of towers by minimizing the weight of a steel tower. However, with the escalating prices of land and increasing concern on environmental ...
  • Document analysis based automatic concept map generation for enterprises 
    Karannagoda, EL; Herath, HMTC; Fernando, KNJ; Karunarathne, MWID; De Silva, NHND; Perera, AS [Conference-Abstract]
    Ever growing knowledge bases of enterprises present the demanding challenge of proper organization of information that would enable fast retrieval of related and intended information. Document repositories of enterprises ...
  • Drastic impacts of 8th October earthquake in Kashmir and role of sustainable development 
    Ejaz, N; Dace, E; Naeem, UA; Tahir, MF [Conference-Full-text]
    The main environmental loses from the earthquake to the environment were the heavy landslides, destruction of residential and commercial structures, destruction and rerouting of water bodies, etc. Due to the lack of ...
  • Dress Fashions globalization of cultural heritage of Sri Lanka 
    Karunaratne, PVM [Conference-Abstract]
    Dress fashions considered as material cultural element as well as tangible heritage of society.Globalization in its literal sense is the process of making, transformation of some things or phenomena into global ones. It ...
  • Dress Fashions: Globalization of cultural heritage of Sri Lanka 
    Karunaratne, PVM [Conference-Abstract]
    Dress fashions considered as material cultural element as well as tangible heritage of society.Globalization in its literal sense is the process of making, transformation of some things or phenomena into global ones. It ...
  • Dress for Dance : costumes during Kotte period 
    Karunaratne, PVM [Conference-Abstract]
    Dress has always been a distinctive mark of a historical period. The aim of this article is to present a comprehensive study of dance costumes in use during the Kotte period. Two ivory caskets at present in the Munich ...
  • Driving factors for facade rainwater harvesting in high-rise buildings 
    Fernando, R; Waidyasekara, KGAS; Mallawaarachchi, H [Conference-Abstract]
    Water is the most vital natural resource for all life on earth and it affects people health and wellbeing, economy and the environment. However, millions of people throughout the world still donot have enough access to ...
  • Dry weather sewage spills impacts on river health 
    Swaminathan, T; Binu, TV [Conference-Full-text]
    The Yarra River is considered to be an important environmental and recreational asset by the Melbourne community in Australia. The upper reaches of the Yarra provide water for consumptive use including drinking water for ...
  • Drying characteristics of orthodox broken type tea 
    Raveendran, K; Amarasinghe, ADUS; Botheju, WS
    Drying characteristic of Orthodox broken type tea was examined using a laboratory-scale fluid bed tea dryer. Drying experiments were carried out at loading of 29 kg/m2 and moisture content of tea was reduced from 106% to ...
  • Dual layered multi agent system for intentional islanding operation of microgrids 
    Kulasekera, AL; Gopura, RARC; Hemapala, KTMU; Perera, N; Pallegedara, A [Conference-Abstract]
    The paper focuses on proposing a dual layered, multi agent based control system for distributed control of a microgrid aimed at intentional islanding. The architecture consists of two layers; primary layer and secondary ...
  • Dual layered multi agent system for load management during islanded operation of a microgrid 
    Kulasekera, AL; Hemapala, KTMU; Gopura, RARC [Conference-Abstract]
    This paper proposes a novel dual layered multi agent system (MAS) control architecture for distributed control of a microgrid. The proposed MAS controller provides islanding capabilities to a microgrid during disturbances ...
  • Dual layered multi agent system for load management during islanded operation of a microgrid 
    Kulasekera, AL; Hemapala, KTMU; Gopura, RARC [Conference-Abstract]
    This paper proposes a novel dual layered multi agent system (MAS) control architecture for distributed control of a microgrid. The proposed MAS controller provides islanding capabilities to a microgrid during disturbances ...
  • Dye - sensitized solar cells: using over 100 natural dyes as sensitizers 
    Attanayake, CIF; De Silva, C; Premachandra, BAJK; De Alwis, AAP; Senadheera, GKR [Conference-Abstract]
    Over 100 natural dyes extracted from fruits, leaves, flowers, stems, bark and roots of plants growing in Sri Lanka were used as sensitizers of to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC's). Preliminary investigations ...
  • Dye sensitized solar cell based on hydrothermally Synthesized titania nanotubes 
    Akilavasan, J; Chandrasekera, PR; Bandara, J [Conference-Full-text]
    Titania nanotubes were introduced into conventional Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) as an electron conducting medium as they provide straight pathway to electron transport. Titania nanotubes were synthesized via ...
  • Dynamic modelling and simulation of pilot scale anaerobic digestion plant treating source separated food waste and effect of recycling sludge 
    Rathnasiri, PG [Conference-Abstract]
    This study investigates the effect of recycling sludge and stability of pilot scale anaerobic digestion plant treating organic fraction of source separated food waste. Pilot plant comprises of pre-treatment, anaerobic ...
  • Dynamic partitional clustering using multi-agent technology 
    Dehideniya, DMMB; Karunananda, AS [Conference-Abstract]
    Most of the well established clustering algorithms assume that the underlying clustering structure of dataset does not change over the time. Hence, those algorithms fail to identify underlying cluster structures in currently ...
  • A dynamic resource management scheme for two-tier LTE femtocell networks 
    Wickramasinghe, CL; Wavegedara, CB [Conference-Abstract]
    Recently, the femtocell concept has received considerable attention both in academic and industry as a promising solution for the deep indoor coverage problem as well as the increasing data demand of mobile devices. Large ...
  • Dynamic Response of RC Bridges due to Heavy Vehicles 
    Sooriyaarachchi, TM; Aththanayaka, WAMTCW; De Silva, S; De Silva, S [Article-Full-text]
    As a South Asian country, Sri Lanka is having a promising development in infrastructures in the country. Amidst of them, concrete bridges that are constructed in highways and expressways have substantial effect on ...
  • Dynamic simulation and full-scale testing of a pre-fabricated straw-bale house 
    Shea, A; Beadle, K; Walker, P [Conference-Full-text]
    Straw is an agricultural by-product and, after accounting for use in animal bedding, the mushroom sector, and Biomass power stations, there is an annual overall net straw surplus in Great Britain of approximately 5.5 million ...