This paper investigates the shielding effect within piles in a group adjacent to deep unbraced and braced excavations. Numerical simulations based on the finite element method are performed on free-head and capped-head ...

In urban areas, excavations for cut-and-cover tunnels and basement construction cause detrimental effects on adjacent piles. This paper presents a case study of a deep excavation carried out adjacent to a group of piles ...

This paper presents the impact of excavation induced ground movements on adjacent pile groups. Numerical simulations are performed on free-head and capped piles with different pile configurations. The piles, pile cap and ...

In the sense of the developing world, foreign debts are earned in order to meet the expenses of the government. Consequently, the research aims to assess the effect of foreign debt on economic growth in Sri Lanka ...

The economic growth of a country is a dominant factor in determining how prosperous a nation is. Finance is an important element of economic growth. Stock market is also playing a vital role in promoting the industry ...

Micro finance serves as a vital role for women entrepreneurship development in the developing countries as well as in Sri Lanka. As a result of 30 years conflict situation, women lost their male relatives in struggle, ...

This paper presents the QUT speaker recognition system, as a competing system in the Speakers In The Wild (SITW) speaker recognition challenge. Our proposed system achieved an overall ranking of second place, in the main ...

Parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) is one of the Asteraceae family's most vicious herbaceous weeds. It emerged as the most significant invasive weed of the planet and has invaded 98 countries representing all the ...

Aflatoxin is a poisonous contaminant of food crops from Aspergillus fungi. It causes not only deleterious issues in humans and livestock, but also inflicts severe economic loss in agriculture production by the quality ...

Diabetes mellitus is becoming a metabolic disease that is defined by the level of hyperglycemia. Nowadays, it has a serious threat to public healthiness in throughout the world. Constituents and extracts isolated ...