ABSTRACT In the recent past, high-rise buildings have become very popular in Sri Lanka. It is pertinent to mention that 25 years back, our tallest building would not have more than 14 storey’s. Today the Colombo skyline ...

Spillway is a critical component in a storage reservoir or in a diversion dam. Many failures of dams have been caused by improperly designed spillways or by spillways of insufficient capacity. There have been numerous ...

Portal frame structures are very popular in industrial buildings due to their pleasing appearance and shorter construction period. In Sri Lanka too, steel construction is increasingly being used for single storey buildings. ...

There are about 3800 bridges on National Road Network with length varying from 3.0 m to 300.0m.These bridges have varying widths about 3.0m to 20.0m and some of these have been constructed more than 50 to 100 years back. ...

With the development of mathematics and ability to process symbols as opposed to numbers in computer technology, the artificial intelligence applications developed rapidly. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Case Based ...