This paper reports the feasibility of using bottom ash which is a waste product of coal-fired power plants, for producing cellular lightweight concrete blocks. Experimental investigation was carried by varying the ...

Supercapacitors are capable of holding electrical charges that are much larger than conventional dielectric capacitors. A supercapacitor was constructed using active carbon electrodes, deposited on metal current collectors ...

Hospitals are known as one of the most important types of infrastructure systems as they are expected to provide health care services continuously, irrespective of the hazardous conditions. Therefore, a framework should ...

Sri Lanka’s first research project conducted utilizing fe-safe software by SIMULIA, in the interest area of fatigue life prediction. The field of Metallurgical Engineering associated with the fatigue life of atmospherically ...

Designing a quality software product adhering to all the functional and non-functional requirements is a challenging task in software architecture designing. Selecting the best designs to apply in the project will be ...

Nowadays, the increasing amount of municipal solid waste generation in Sri Lanka, has become a national concern. In this study, the main objective was to investigate the feasibility of application of torrefaction process ...

Smartphones have become an essential companion in most of the communities. Yet, we may not be quite aware of the capabilities and services that these devices could provide. As a result, features such as location services ...

This study develops a lateral deviation based framework for identifying potential veer off risks at different turn off speeds, locations and turn off configurations of high speed exits. With introduction of newer air ...

MDI based polyurethanes have vast variety of applications. Its applications will be broaden with an understanding of the microstructural changes in the polymer matrix due to UV exposure. In this study the fluorescence ...

This paper presents temperature control of a reactor with high thermal inertia. The reactor chamber temperature is required to be critically controlled at 300°C. A non-linear thermodynamic model was developed, and ...