Bio-inspired and biomimetic surface modifications are identified as one of the fascinating areas of research. In this study, nature’s way of cooling elephants’ body temperature using mud bathing was mimicked to create ...

This work attempts to address the issue of managing risk to the safety of the public posed by Major Accident Hazards (MAH) from the Chemical Process Industry (CPI) in Sri Lanka. The research essentially focuses on the ...

The aim of this research is to model the moving grate combustion process by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method by OpenFOAM software. Kinetic data for heterogeneous reactions, specific to local fuel types is essential. ...

Enzymes are widely used to accelerate the biochemical reactions in biological wastewater treatment processes. Commercially developed enzymes such as amylases, proteases and lipases improve microbial biodegradation by ...

Resilient solid tires are used for industrial vehicles. Three-layer resilient tire composed of heel, middle and tread layers; the integrity of layers is empirical throughout the service life. This thesis investigated ...

Solid tire industry is a rapidly growing industry all over the world with a very high demand for different kinds of material handling equipment manufacturing companies. In this case, resilient tires are playing a major ...

Improving properties of cement-based skim coat through controlling water absorption using a Vinyl Acetate-Ethylene copolymer This study aims to describe and complement the existing knowledge on the effect of re-dispersible ...

Water is the most vital natural resource that sustains all living organisms on the earth and access to safe and clean water has become a crisis due to intense water pollution by anthropogenic activities, over-pumping of ...

As the depreciation of the fossil fuels in the world, it is obligatory to discover new fuels to the highly industrialized society. With increasing requirements of the energy, it is globally focused on the use of renewable ...

In the rubber industry, curing is very important parameter. There are many methodologies are used industrially in order to predict the optimum curing time of rubber product. The methodologies are mainly two types as practical ...