This research paper focuses on creep movements of rainfall-induced landslides with their groundwater level fluctuation, to understand the pore water pressure development in saturated/ unsaturated soil layers in relation ...

Skin friction is a major component in any pile foundation’s load bearing capacity. In terms of a floating pile, almost entire bearing capacity depends on the skin friction. Skin friction may depend on the soil type and ...

Soil nailing has been used in Sri Lanka lately, in a wide range of infrastructure projects, as a cost-effective stabilization technique that can be implemented quickly. However, detailed designs with rigor, for nailhead/ ...

Undrained shear strength is one of the essential parameters in most of the applications of geotechnical engineering. Unconsolidated undrained (UU) triaxial test is the most commonly practiced method of determining the ...

Slope instability, triggered by excessive rainfall, is one of the common geo –hazards that geotechnical engineers are challenged with in tropical countries such as Sri Lanka. Typically, these slope failures are initiated ...

Landfill slope failure became one of the hot topics in Sri Lanka as the infamous Meethotamulla waste fill collapsed, claiming lives of people and infrastructure. Every year all around Sri Lanka, millions of tons of Municipal ...

Instabilities and failures in rock slopes occur due to numerous factors such as unfavorable slope geometries, geological discontinuities, weak or weathered materials in the slopes, existing weather conditions and environmentally ...

Cement Stabilized Soil Blocks are now considerably popular in the construction industry as an alternative building material to burnt bricks and cement sand blocks. It provides a timely solution for the over exploitation ...

Due to rapid development and population growth, construction industry has emerged with few new problems. The major problem faced by the industry is the scarcity of construction material and disposal of construction waste ...

‘Modulus of subgrade reaction’ is the ratio between the pressure applied on the soil and the corresponding settlement. There is no theoretical relationship found to obtain equivalent subgrade modulus of layered soil. Top ...