Reinforced concrete structures often have to face modification and improvement of their performance during their service life. The main contributing factors are change in their use, new design standards, design errors, ...

Online learning is a support tool for educators as well as a medium of delivery of any-time, any-where delivery of a content to a dispersed learner community. Web-based learning environments are a relatively new medium ...

Fast fashion apparel industry is having a significant growth in international markets. Frequent fluctuation of customer demand with smaller batch quantities and, short lead-times, are the key characteristics of fast fashion ...

It has been identified that the incorporation of vegetation in built-environments is a sustainable solution for reducing the energy demand for thermal comfort and air quality in tropical climate and reducing building related ...

Sri Lanka is famous for ‘Clay Cooking Pots’ from the historical days. Earthenware clay cooking pots have been used in each and every household as the main cooking utensil. However with the time these clay products became ...

A novel framework named Dempster-Shafer Information Filtering for in- formation processing in Distributed Sensor Networks (DSNs) is presented. More- over, distributed algorithms to implement spatio-temporal ltering ...

Since their discovery in 1991 by Iijima, carbon nanotubes have been of great interest. The key advantages of these structures are their electronic, mechanical, optical and chemical characteristics, which open a way to a ...

Risk is an inescapable dimension of construction projects, particularly in road construction, which makes effective risk management crucial in the achievement of project goals with risk identification, analysis and ...

Building occupants seek to be comfortable and productive in their workplace. Occupants with local control over their environment generally have an improvement in their work effort and productivity. However, work productivity ...