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An Analysis of issues pertaining to infrastructure for establishing BPO zones in Sri Lanka

Premakumara, KMW [Thesis-Abstract]

Sri Lankshas the potential to develop further its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry as it has a greater low cost advantage than other South Asian countries. The availability of highly educated and easily trainable ...

Applicability of suspension bridges for transportation in rural areas in Sri Lanka

Thrimavithana, RSK [Thesis-Abstract]

For the rapid economic development of rural villages in Sri Lanka the transportation facilities should be upgraded. In this context, one of the bottlenecks is the need of large number of bridges which is a costly item. ...

Application of project management concept on road and bridge construction claims

Gopallawa, T [Thesis-Full-text]

Road Development Authority of Sri Lanka (RDA) is the client organization for the National Roads administration operating under the supervision of the Ministry of Highways. Since 1986 up to end of 2003 most of the road and ...

Application of unsaturated shear strength properties in slope stability analysis

Hapangama, MTCP [Thesis-Full-text]

It is very important to study applications of unsaturated soil properties in slope stability analysis due to the additional shear strength an unsaturated soil possesses. Shear strength of an unsaturated soil is strongly ...

Assessing Tsunami hazard and mitigation measures

Karunathilaka, AVAU [Thesis-Abstract]

The Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 caused widespread damage in the coastal regions of Sri Lanka. The extent of inundation and the associated damage varied significantly with the local near shore wave height, topography and ...

Assessment of Tsunami and storm surge impact mitigation by coastal vegetation

Manawasekara, RBCD [Thesis-Abstract]

The devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and subsequent tsunami alerts in 2005 and 2007 as well as the historical records of possible tsunamis in the past have highlighted the vulnerability of the country ...

Attitudes of site personnel towards waste management of building construction projects in Sri Lanka

Jayaweerarathna, JPKN [Thesis-Abstract]

Waste management is a very widely known subject and it has served with many aspects of research areas already carried out to avoid waste in construction industry. But the problem still remains as this is very severe problem ...

Behaviour of Sri Lankan peaty soils under surcharging and vacuum loading

Thavakumar, T [Thesis-Abstract]

The composition of natural deposits of peaty soil may vary considerably among different sites, as do their engineering properties. Peaty soils have distinctive properties of low shear strength, high compressibility, high ...

Capacity estimation of piles using dynamic methods

Jayaweera, MSR [Thesis-Abstract]

The foundation is the most important part of any type of structure. Pile foundations are used to transfer very high loads from supper structure to the ground. Therefore, design and construction of piles must be carried out ...

Cement stabilized rammed earth for load bearing walls in two story house

Kandamby, GWTC [Thesis-Abstract]

Use of cement stabilized rammed earth (CSRE) walls is one of the popular method which has been introduced as an alternative walling material for single storey houses. These walls are made with mixture of laterite soil and ...

The Cement stabilized soil as a road base material for Sri Lankan roads

Bandara, WW [Thesis-Full-text]

Soils that can be stabilized are Granular, Sandy, Salty and Clayey materials. In Sri Lanka, lower quality coarse–grained and sandy materials are available which give higher elastic modulus than fine–grained material (Salty ...

Cleaner production options for skim rubber industry - a case study

Yasaratna, PDTN [Thesis-Abstract]

Rubber processing factories generate large amount of wastewater containing organic pollutants and various process chemicals. Rubber processing factory effluents exhibit high BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand), COD (Chemical ...

Coastal and environmental impacts arising from major coastal infrastructure development projects

Soysa, VAN [Thesis-Abstract]

Sri Lanka being an island state, strategically located in the Indian Ocean, has a high potential for the developments of its economy in the coastal zone. During the reason past, there have been major development projects ...

Comparative analysis o n simply supported pre- stressed box beams in Sri Lankan highway bridges

Jabbar, MARMA [Thesis-Abstract]

The National Road network of Sri Lanka consists of 4326 bridges. There are 365 bridges which Have the length more than 30m .Only 800 bridges are made of prestressed concrete superstructures and all others are with reinforced ...

Comparative study on code based analysis of steel moment resisting connections

Kodikara, KANT [Thesis-Abstract]

Moment resisting connections are usually designed as simple or continuous although the actual behavior is known to fall between these two extreme cases. The use of semi- continuous connection results substantial savings ...

Comparative study on simply supported pre-stressed box girders and double T beams for Two lane highway bridges

Wijendra, WSN [Thesis-Abstract]

There are about 3800 bridges on National Road Network with length varying from 3.0 m to 300.0m.These bridges have varying widths about 3.0m to 20.0m and some of these have been constructed more than 50 to 100 years back. ...

Comparison of portal frames of UB sections with the lattice girder portal frames

Jayasinghe, S [Thesis-Abstract]

Portal frame structures are very popular in industrial buildings due to their pleasing appearance and shorter construction period. In Sri Lanka too, steel construction is increasingly being used for single storey buildings. ...

Comparison study of rural bus transport subsidy schemes

Athukorala, SD [Thesis-Full-text]

Sri Lanka has a public transport system that dates back to the 1860s. Buses entered the service in 1907 and have become the most widely used mode of transport. The penetration level of buses is 1 bus per 1000 population. ...

Compensation system for road traffic accident victims

Piyasekara, ARR [Thesis-Full-text]

Worldwide over 1.3 million Persons killed, 50 millions injured in 2007 due to road traffic accidents. In 2004,Road Traffic injuries was the ninth leading cause of death.By,2030 it is estimated the fifth leading cause of ...

Computerized optimization of the base width of transmission towers in Sri Lanka

Ganeshwaran, R [Thesis-Abstract]

Transmission line towers were mainly used in electrification works in all over the world. Optimization of base width of the transmission towers becomes necessary in order to reduce the cost and to avoid public objection. ...

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