All over the world, sustainability has been given immense attention, thus novel stateof-the-art materials and building systems are emerging as alternatives. With those different alternatives, comparison and the selection ...

Steel structures such as steel bridges greatly contribute to the socio economic development of the world. The current traffic demand has exhausted the service life of steel bridges paving the way for failures without ...

Mahaweli river is the longest river in Sri Lanka which flows through all the climatological regions with vast diversities in precipitations, environmental conditions, water usages, and livelihoods. The hydrology of the ...

World population is rising day by day. Due to the increment of population, the demand for all the needs including foods, clothes, shelter etc. are also being increased. Therefore, escalating the production of various sectors ...

The Box Culverts are drainage structures that allow to cross, small to medium scale water paths. They generally founded in soil where scouring is not an issue. The advantage of the box culvert is that it can be rested ...

Design of large space structures is restricted due to the limited storage capacity of launch vehicles. Deployable structures made with ultra-thin woven fibre composites eliminates this bottleneck due to self-deploying ...

Low-rise structures are not often subjected to rigorous structural analysis, despite their omnipresence. Estimating wind loads on low buildings is moderately complicated compared to high-rise structures due to the effect ...

The use of thin membranes is widespread in a variety of applications in a range of industries owing to the lightweight nature and small packaged volume attainable by them. When facilitating the storage of large areas of ...

Past records depict that both the intensity and frequency of climatic-related hazards are increasing devastatingly. Although the number of deaths caused by these extreme events has been comparatively less recently, the ...

The Construction industry is one of the largest industries in Sri Lanka. The skilled labor shortage is one of the main challenges that the industry is suffering. Although this is an important area of study, only a few ...