The building wall is our third skin. Edifice the third skin out of earth has been practiced since prehistoric era, because of the availability of soil as a raw material. Merely soil have many weakness including its geo ...

Airport city becomes a trend to many airports in 21st century. Airport city concept is a novel concept to the world. This research is focused on to identify how airport cities emerge in the world and its usefulness to any ...

Determination of packing density of a particulate mixture is still an open problem for researchers and scientists. The complex and random nature of particle behavior in a mixture and effect of various external factors have ...

Koslanda, in Sri Lanka is an area that remains in the memories of people due to frequently occurring landslides as the area is made vulnerable by both climatic and geomorphological settings. Additionally, the aftermath of ...

Global Warming is proven to be one of the biggest issues that the current world is facing. Greenhouse gas emission due to the extensive energy usage has been identified as the primary cause for that. Hence, the world is ...

The housing requirement in Sri Lanka is rising due to the growth of population and urbanisation. This rising demand has to be met in an environment of rapidly rising prices of conventional building materials. Over exploitation ...

Masonry is the most commonly used building material for construction of low rise buildings and even for infill-walls of some high-rise buildings in Sri Lanka. Propagation of cracks in masonry walls is one of the main ...

Probable maximum precipitation (PMP) is widely used as an input in rainfall-runoff modelling to estimate probable maximum flood (PMF), which is required for the design of spillways of large dams. Two methods for estimating ...

The premise of this research is that unless stakeholders are able to engage in educated (technically, economically, environmentally informed) trade-offs between the different uses/issues of a common resource, the stakeholder ...

The history of urban travel demand studies spreads over a period of more than fifty years. Most of them are recorded from developed countries, with just a handful from developing countries. The scarcity of reliable and ...