A deployable structure should mainly be adequately compact and should fit into any remaining space of the launch vehicle. The main factors which will determine these are the folding pattern, ease of deployment and stresses ...

In this era of globalisation and fierce competition amongst businesses, most companies around the world faces relentless pressure to reduce cost, add value and support business goals for sustainability. Hence, innovative ...

Tourism has been identified as a major growth area in post-conflict development in Sri Lanka and it was aimed to attract 2.5 million tourists by 2016. Consumer perceived value is a complex theoretical construct that can ...

Construction is one of the booming industries in the present context. With the rapid development in past couple of decades, it has become one of the driving industries of most the economies in the world. Telecommunication ...

Telecommunication towers are common sight even in very remote areas of Sri Lanka with the revolutionary development in this sector during last few decades. These towers play a vital role especially in wireless communication. ...

Mobile communication is feeing an exponential growth and thousands of telecommunication towers have been constructed in Sri Lanka to accommodate the current demand. Failure of communication tower in a disaster like an ...

Aging of reinforced concrete structures is of major concern, and strengthening these structures, using externally bonded Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) is a promising method. Prediction of behaviour of CFRP ...

The global attention and the awareness is now gradually focusing on much more environmental friendly and sustainable development process. The green concepts have been now identifying as the right element to connect both ...

This study investigates the effect of non-work related Internet usage on stimulating employee creativity in the software industry. Drawing from past literature this research proposes six dimensions for measuring creativity ...

The concept of “Green Building” became the most prominent among new building designs, which was set up with the “Sustainable Built Environment5’, to safeguard the natural environment. With boom of this new concept of ...