The objectives of this research are to understand pedestrian’s behaviour at a disaster event, to find out pedestrian spriorities in a disaster event and to identify important pedestrian facilities for disaster events. The ...

Title of the Publication "Mitigation of Tsunami inundation by costal vegetation"

Cement stabilized earth (CSE) bricks and blocks are gradually gaining popularity in many countries with lateritic soils. CSE Bricks can be manufactured to standard size of a burnt clay brick. CSE Blocks are bigger in ...

Abstract (150-300 words), covering: Para I - Introduction to and Significance of Research (50-100words), Para 2 - Objectives and Methodology (50-100 words), and Para 3 - Key results and conclusions (50-100 words) Jaya-Ganga ...

The flexural performance of heavily cracked reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with different carbon fibrereinforcedpolymer(CFRP) arrangements was investigated. In total twelve CFRP-strengthened and non-strengthened ...

This invention relates to a method of sensing positions in application such as mobile robotic applications. The main objective of this invention is to overcome certain issues related to position detection mechanisms available ...

Rice is the staple diet in Sri Lanka where parboiled rice is becoming fast popular. The parboiling process involves three main steps namely soaking, steaming and drying which improves various characteristics of rice. A ...

Currently in Sri Lanka, coconut water is a waste from Desiccated Coconut (DC) industry apart from the small quantity used to produce beverage and vinegar. BOD and COD value of coconut found to be 13,000-15,000 mg/1 and ...

Parboiling is a process used to improve the milling characteristics of paddy. The wastewater generated from soaking operation in parboiling process has pollutant levels higher than the discharge standards. Lab scale ...