Village tanks contribute significantly to the irrigation sector of Sri Lanka as a large number of rural population depends on them for their livelihoods. However, these systems are vulnerable to water scarcities during ...

Bottlenecks in road networks are the main contributing factor in terms of traffic congestion in urban areas and thus, identification of bottlenecks and introduction of relevant remedies are important in easing the traffic ...

For English, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is more or less a solved problem. However, for low-resourced and morphologically rich languages such as Sinhala, minimal research has been done. In this paper, we present a ...

Development of transport sector is a timely need for a developing country such as Sri Lanka. Especially the public transport sector. Mass transit systems serve as the backbone transport systems while feeder modes enable ...

Pavement design is a vital part of the highway industry. In recognition of the potential of analyzing pavements and predicting their performance, it is encouraged to adapt mechanistic-empirical methods over traditional ...

Low volume roads provide the connectivity between residential, agricultural areas and the national road network. Those are especially critical in rural areas to provide accessibility for the community to fulfill their ...

More than 65% of the entire road network of Sri Lanka consists of low volume roads with AADT of 1000 vpd or less. The provision of better surfacing for these roads has become one of the main needs nowadays and traditional ...

With the rapid growth of wearable electronics, smart textiles and nanotechnology, there has been great interest on research leading to wearer friendly conductive nanofibres. In this study, electrospun cellulose nanofibres ...

Building construction can be considered as one of the indispensable industries in the world. Even though the necessity of the industry is evident, its current practices are not environmentally friendly. Some of the main ...

This research work is done to produce an environmentally friendly alternative to be used in the manufacturing of wetsuit and other similar products and to assess thermal, mechanical and sustainable aspects in comparison ...