Due to their superior qualities in contrast with the alternatives, Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) strengthening techniques have proven great performance in externally strengthening Reinforced Concrete (RC) elements. ...
Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) strengthening techniques have gained
popularity compared to other retrofitting methods due to its superior performance.
While ample research had been done regarding retrofitting of ...
Over three thousand people die annually on the roads of Sri Lanka due to traffic crashes. This
is a massive socio and economic problem faced by the country. Road crashes globally cause
more than 1.3 million fatalities ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thin Asphalt surfacing (TAS) is an innovative idea that has the potential to lower
construction and maintenance costs of road construction in Sri Lanka. Laboratory based
studies conducted in Sri Lanka have shown that the ...
The Box Culverts are drainage structures that allow to cross, small to medium scale water paths.
They generally founded in soil where scouring is not an issue. The advantage of the box culvert
is that it can be rested ...
Hydrological modelling plays a vital role in understanding the hydrological system of
any watershed and providing reliable data to manage the water resources of the relevant
watershed in a sustainable manner. Among the ...
Watershed, Sri Lanka
An accurate representation of spatial precipitation is significant for hydrological studies.
Spatial precipitation is also the basic input for distributed hydrological models and the
accuracy of ...
Streamflow variability is important in basin water resources management to analyze and plan
for the present and future hazards and vulnerabilities affecting effective water management.
The unique feature of soil to hold ...
Drought is an creeping hazard that is least understood and the most complex of all-natural
hazards. The drought study requires large historical climatological and meteorological datasets
and their complex inter-relationships. ...
Drought is a natural phenomenon that occurs because of climate change. Droughts are
localized events influenced by climatic variables such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, and
temperature. As a result, the characteristics ...
Population growth raises demand and competition for water resources and food stocks while
it changes the landuse types by anthropogenic activities to adopt applicable measures for
supplying water for domestic, agricultural, ...
Climate change, population increase, and economic development will all have an impact on
future water availability for drinking water supply, agriculture, and recreation activities, with
different effects in different ...
Floods are getting severe due to climate change and anthropogenic activities which neeimmediate response to lower the risk and decrease the human and financial losses. Floodinundation mapping for flood risk preparedness ...
Floods are a frequent major disaster throughout the world, usually resulting in fatalities andmassive economic and environmental damage. Seasonal and localized flooding is one of theextremely common natural disasters in ...
Kalu Ganga basin is one of the main waterway basins in Sri Lanka which gets exceptionally
high rainfalls with higher discharges. This report is about how the different zones, having a
higher likelihood of a flood in 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 ...
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 structural efficiency of tall buildings significantly relies on the lateral stiffness of
building and its resistance capacity against lateral loads. However, when the structure
becomes taller and slender, the building ...