Structural Health Monitoring has drawn more attention from bridge engineers since the tragic collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge. In health monitoring of bridges, visual inspection has been the principal technique, ...

Invisible damages in bridges, such as corrosion of rebar, may not be detected by periodic visual inspection that is the principal method in bridge maintenance. A possible non-destructive technique which has been investigated ...

Identification of system parameters of a small DC motor is a complex and challenging task. This research proposes a disturbance observer (DOB) based novel Change of Inertia Observer (CIOB) to estimate the moment of ...

Minor irrigation reservoirs, commonly known as village tanks in Sri Lanka, play a vital role in the economic and social spheres of the rural village population, especially in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. A major issue of ...

The major objective of the study is to find a useful results on the deck stiffness selection in long span cable stayed bridges at the conceptual stage of design. Decision making involving deck stiffness selection and the ...

The usage of steel as a structural material has been gaining popularity in the recent years in Sri Lanka. Since the construction with reinforced concrete is of relatively lower cost in Sri Lanka, steel can become competitive ...

The terms “green” and “green technology” are used to highlight environmental conservation or minimal adverse impact on the environment. In this context, a green building could be defined as one, which has been designed, ...

Microgrid is a small scale power system consisting of distributed small power facilities such as solar power, wind power and micro-turbines. The microgrid has been researched and encouraged actively in many countries, ...

Maintaining proper light intensity level inside of an operation theatre is a critical factor for a surgery to be perform successfully. The focusing location and the intensity level is controlled by manually in currently ...