The natural phenomena 'earthquakes' can not be prevented but the damage caused by earthquakes can be minimised mainly by having structures to resist earthquakes. The seismic performance of bridge is important as bridges ...

Earthquakes are one of nature’s greatest hazards to life. Sri Lanka is considered to be in an aseismic zone away from major plate boundaries or any active faults. However, the first Earthquake hazard recorded on 14th ...

The majority of building structures in Sri Lanka, are of reinforced concrete. Often it is required to estimate structural member sizes at the initial stage of a building construction project for load evaluation, cost ...

Main types of reinforced concrete structures such as buildings, bridges, transmission poles which were built specially in the last century, are reaching end of their life span and need strength assessment for their continuous ...

One of the applications of prestressed concrete is in continuous bridges. These can be either double tee or box girders. The longitudinal shape can be prismatic, semi-prismatic or non- prismatic. The design of these bridges ...

This research was done as a case study, to highlight some basic conceptual changes needed in pile designing and philosophy adopted in Sri Lanka. Even though the results are based on single case study similar trends are ...

At present, there is little published literature for estimating the requirements of material, and cost of construction of elevated water tanks. The author has carried out a detailed analysis of costs and the requirements ...

Sandwich wall panel technology is a new system introduced to Sri Lanka. Thermal insulation, sound insulation, light weight and reduction in natural resources like sand have lead to its popularity in Sri Lanka. The system ...

The Colombo-Matara express highway also known as the Southern Lanka Express Highways or simply the Southern Expressway is a highway currently under construction in Sri Lanka. The 126 km long highway will link the Sri Lankan ...

The simplest definition of built up timber is the formation of structural members by connecting smaller dimension timber by nailing or gluing. Built up timber sections are used as columns, beams and slabs. The commonly ...