Testing of piles using high strain dynamic load testing using Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) has become very popular among Sri Lankan geotechnical engineers. In the high strain dynamic pile load testing, a pile instrumented ...

Fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) pipes, particularly fibre glass in resin, is in use in chemical industry, potable water supply and related applications for some time now due to their advantage of chemical inertness. Use ...

The objective of an environment impact assessment (EIA) is to ensure that the development options under consideration are environmentally sound and sustainable and environmental consequences are recognized and taken in ...

Academic institutions in Sri Lanka are seeking quality improvements for their activities, and therefore subjected to change their processes with the aid of Information Technology. This has led the universities to deploy ...

Polymers made of petroleum by products have come into wide use throughout the world. With an increase of their applications, the treatment of waste polymers has become a serious environmental problem because of the ...

Use of grounds with soft compressible layers at shallow depths for development projects requires the use of pile foundations to support the structural loads. Piles installed through soft compressible soil layers are subjected ...

During the past decades Sri Lanka has not satisfactorily processed agricultural products which were a major burden to the national economy. Realizing the importance of value addition, the relevant processing of agricultural ...

The future of "green transport" is of great concern to rational planners and politicians who want to find solutions to the many environmental problems caused by the extreme popularity of the automobiles. Therefore, a ...

Design and construction of a machine to desalinate and sieve sea sand is discussed. Initially, a full scale machine was designed according to the requirement. Then, the device was modelled using Pro/Engineer to depict the ...