The objectives of this research are to understand pedestrian’s behaviour at a disaster event, to find out pedestrian spriorities in a disaster event and to identify important pedestrian facilities for disaster events. The ...

Traditional Transport Models can under or overestimate the benefits when they try to model a rapidly changing economic surrounding. While looking into transport aspects, they cannot account the changes., the transportation ...

Though University libraries have positioned themselves as the main vehicles for the organization, access, distribution and use of knowledge, current library services will eventually be inadequate to keep pace with the ...

Thermal power generating plants, service stations and oil refineries generate oily wastewaters which are recognized to be a severe threat to aquatic environments. Electrocoagulation has received considerable attention ...

The urbanization process effects both structure and function of the cities. Therefore, the analysis of morphological patterns of a particular urban area have evolved as a result of varying factors of demographics, level ...

Performances of pedestal and table fans were analysed through experimental measurements of the induced flow field (velocity distribution) and the power consumption by three different fan types (makes). A test rig was ...

Prof. R.A. Attalage and Dr.W.M.S.R.Weerasinghe of University of Moratuwa organized our group under the module ME420, with the goal of designing and modeling a Stirling engine that could be used to generate power for small ...

The increasing population and the ever-changing life style of the public have begun to add to the growing solid waste problem in Sri Lanka. As a solution, Local Authorities, NGOs, researchers and environmentalists have ...

Starch solutions are said to be pseudo thermoplastic in nature. Hydrolysis & gelatinization could add an adhesion character to such pseudo thermoplastic starch emulsions making them widely used in the adhesive industry. ...

According to Ceylon Electricity Board, the total energy demand of Sri Lanka is increasing at an annual average rate of 10%, and it is forecast that the present electricity demand will quadruple during the next 15 ...