Worldwide, more than 1.2 million people die annually from road accidents and now it is the 8th leading cause of death in the world. In the context of Sri Lanka, road traffic injury is also a leading cause of mortality and ...
Natural hazards were recognized globally as the most pressing risk in terms of impact and probability of occurrence. This context presses the need for strong, effective risk management mechanisms in the field of disaster ...
Flood forecasting is a powerful tool for flood management and early warning, where the
anticipated flow values are determined by incorporating basin attributes and climatic factors.
In the field, data-driven models offer ...
The study aims to improve land clearance processes in Urban Development Authority (UDA) with the support of Geographic Information Systems. The objective is realized through the conduct of geographical analysis, query, and ...
With the evolvement of Information Technology, the simulation of physical theories on real matter in order to envisage the behavior of man-made structures and its impact on earth resources have “spread its wings” from ...
Auto-Tuning Multi Tiered Applications for Performance With the widespread use of cluster-based environments, getting the maximum possible performance from multi-tiered web applications becomes an important task. The large ...
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is being used as a retrofitting material for
different structures such as, concrete and steel. Glass transition temperature (Tg) of the
bond between CFRP and steel influences on the ...
All over the world, sustainability has been given immense attention, thus novel stateof-the-art
materials and building systems are emerging as alternatives. With those
different alternatives, comparison and the selection ...
With the aim of promoting sustainable construction, several building materials with lower life cycle cost have been developed. This in turn would limit the over exploitation of natural resources used to produce conventional ...
Office buildings are one of the main categories of buildings which possess a rapid
growth rate in the context of urbanization. They contribute to a major part of energy
consumption in commercial building sector. Even ...
A unique characteristic of dry zone rainfall is its higher peak rainfall, even though the annual rainfall is relatively low. Jaffna peninsula is located in the northernmost part of Sri Lanka and faces these critical storm ...
Deployable structures play a vital role in a variety of applications such as aerospace
structures, rapid development civil engineering projects, medical devices,
reconfigurable robotics and many other engineering ...
With the effects of climate change, natural disasters are becoming more severe and more frequent, resulting in loss of lives and an impact on a country’s economy. Disaster resistant structures play a vital role in preventing ...
Landfilling has now become a prime concern all around the world, not only
because it squanders usable land, it causes major environmental issues such
as contamination of soil, water, and air, as well as an impact on ...
The inevitable ageing and degradation of buildings and the structural failures that follow, have ignited a need for early prognosis of probable structural failures so that proactive measures can be undertaken. Hence, one ...
Increasing noise pollution has severally effected the urban areas where noise generated by traffic is considered as the major noise polluter. As a solution to the noise problem using noise barriers is an approach proven ...
Transport demand models assess impacts of transport policies and transport infrastructure. In recent times transport modellers have been moving towards disaggregate activity based models from widely used aggregate trip/tour ...
The civil engineering industry is moving towards more greener and sustainable means of construction materials today. Improving the thermal comfort in buildings while conserving the natural resources is essential to maintain ...
Pavement management system is a decision support system that is used by highway agencies to maintain its road networks, extending their useful life within the available budget and resource constraints. Methodology of ...
The frequency of disasters and emergencies has increased rapidly during the past few decades and it is necessary to conduct more research in this field to improve the knowledge levels and capacities of individuals/systems. ...