Colombo city is the main commercial and administrative hub of Sri Lanka. The city is frequently subjected to flooding during rainy seasons which disturb day to day routines. The existing drainage system is not sufficient ...

Timber is unique among construction materials in that it is a renewable resource. It has an added advantage that the manufacture of timber from the tree consumes less energy and causes less pollution when compared to ...

Experimental investigations on nailed built up timber box beams of different cross sectional profiles in which the flanges and webs are both entirely of timber are carried out with the objective of understanding the behaviour ...

Steel towers are widely used in the telecommunication and power transmission sectors. Failure of these towers causes direct and indirect losses and disruption to the services provided by those towers. As a result, industries ...

Use of stone columns is a ground improvement technique that can be applied when high embankments are to be constructed on thick layers of soft soils. Stone columns installed in an appropriate pattern, reinforce the soft ...

The majority of steel bridges in Sri Lanka have been built more than 100 years ago. Most bridges have been subjected to changes such as deterioration due to corrosion, mechanical damage due to fatigue and repair due to ...

The use of limestone in the construction industry has been increasing due to its potential as aggregate. Some of the benefits of limestone include good strength, low possibility of alkali-silica reaction and the decrease ...

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 ...

This report describes the project on Developing Design Guidelines for Economical Greenfield Self Supporting Telecommunication Towers funded by the Senate Research Committee of the University of Moratuwa. The report ...

The core-cutter method can disturb a sensitive municipal solid waste (MSW) sample when measuring dry density of the soil. A mechanism has been developed to reduce this disturbance significantly, thus trying to obtain an ...