Worldwide, increasing demand for drinking water to cater to the increasing urban population has led to the use of lakes and reservoirs with unprotected catchments as sources of public water supplies. These water bodies ...

Industrial wastewaters are complex in nature, having soluble, insoluble and/or potentially insoluble compounds, which may be biodegradable or not and which may give rise to foaming or scaling. Industrial wastewaters with ...

In Sri Lanka, Engineered landfills are not being used and only very few controlled landfills are available. The usual procedure is to cover the waste with a good cover soil without providing gas venting facilities. This ...

The Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 caused widespread damage in the coastal regions of Sri Lanka. The extent of inundation and the associated damage varied significantly with the local near shore wave height, topography and ...

Gusiakov has compiled a comprehensive database compiled that gives data such as earthquake intensity, geographical location, resulting tsunami intensity etc. There have been various relationships proposed between earthquake ...

Increased river sand mining in the west of Sri Lanka has led to coastal erosion over the last few decades. Erosion has been particularly severe along the coast north of the Maha Oya. The CRMP project, which included ...

There has been an intensive process of urbanization which has brought about need for rapid construction of roads and related infrastructure during the end of the last century. Therefore development of economical road ...

Intersections, pedestrian crossings and their approaches are more susceptible to cause distresses due to often decelerating and accelerating effects of vehicles. Frequent maintenance of asphalt concrete pavements at ...

Large structures are widely used in the modem construction industry for infra-structure facilities development. Among these, long span structures with cables are becoming increasingly popular. In this category of structures ...

In Sri Lanka, nearshore wave climate is influenced by the simultaneous occurrence of swell waves approaching from a more or less southerly direction and sea waves mainly influenced by monsoonal weather pattern. Some nearshore ...