With the aim of promoting sustainable construction, several building materials with lower life cycle cost have been developed. This in turn would limit the over exploitation of natural resources used to produce conventional ...
A unique characteristic of dry zone rainfall is its higher peak rainfall, even though the annual rainfall is relatively low. Jaffna peninsula is located in the northernmost part of Sri Lanka and faces these critical storm ...
Deployable structures play a vital role in a variety of applications such as aerospace
structures, rapid development civil engineering projects, medical devices,
reconfigurable robotics and many other engineering ...
With the effects of climate change, natural disasters are becoming more severe and more frequent, resulting in loss of lives and an impact on a country’s economy. Disaster resistant structures play a vital role in preventing ...
Landfilling has now become a prime concern all around the world, not only
because it squanders usable land, it causes major environmental issues such
as contamination of soil, water, and air, as well as an impact on ...
The inevitable ageing and degradation of buildings and the structural failures that follow, have ignited a need for early prognosis of probable structural failures so that proactive measures can be undertaken. Hence, one ...
Increasing noise pollution has severally effected the urban areas where noise generated by traffic is considered as the major noise polluter. As a solution to the noise problem using noise barriers is an approach proven ...
Transport demand models assess impacts of transport policies and transport infrastructure. In recent times transport modellers have been moving towards disaggregate activity based models from widely used aggregate trip/tour ...
The civil engineering industry is moving towards more greener and sustainable means of construction materials today. Improving the thermal comfort in buildings while conserving the natural resources is essential to maintain ...
Pavement management system is a decision support system that is used by highway agencies to maintain its road networks, extending their useful life within the available budget and resource constraints. Methodology of ...
The frequency of disasters and emergencies has increased rapidly during the past few decades and it is necessary to conduct more research in this field to improve the knowledge levels and capacities of individuals/systems. ...
This research focused on introducing a new mechanism to measure the effective earth
pressure and total earth pressure in one degree of freedom sensor system. To identify
the structural deformation with respect to the ...
Traditional Transport Models can under or overestimate the benefits when they try to model a rapidly changing economic surrounding. While looking in to transport aspects, they cannot account the changes, the transportation ...
Sustainability is a universal concept applied in all industries and services to instigate a base of responsibility in an individual and collective manner. The need to promote the concept and hold stakeholders responsible ...
The energy used to maintain the thermal comfort of building greatly contributes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming. This study developed a sustainable cost-effective rice husk ash (RHA) based mortar for ...
Over the last few decades number of tall buildings has seen an exponential increase. At present tallest ever building under construction measures 1000m vertically, and the height of future buildings is likely to be even ...
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 ...
Travel time estimation is an important parameter in effective transport planning, quality maintenance, and traffic management. Even though several models are available worldwide for travel time estimation from simple road ...
There are many small islands all over the world, which face scarcity of drinking water due to low rainfall, high evaporation rate, absence of surface water and salinity in groundwater. Island width, amount of recharge, ...