The Department is actively involved in computational and experimental research in various fields of Civil Engineering, which is sponsored by a variety of government and private agencies. Following are the topics of sponsored research undertaken by the faculties of the Department between 2015-2021:

Environmental Engineering

• Real-Time Source Apportionment and Forecasting for Advance Air Pollution Management in Delhi
• Centre for Ganga River Basin Management
• National Carbonaceous Aerosols Program (NCAP) Working Group-III Project
• CGRBMS at IIT Kanpur
• Streaming Analytics over Temporal Variables from Air Quality Monitoring (SATVAM)
• Studies on Aerosol Behaviour under severe accident conditions In the context of Indian Nuclear Reactor by setting up of National Aerosol Facility
• Unlocking Wastewater Treatment Water Re-Use and Resource Recovery Opportunities for Urban and Peri-Urban Areas In India
• Design & Retro fitment for development of Methanol Fueled Large Bore Engine (EMD 710: 4500 hp) for Locomotive Marine & Power Generation Application
• Changing the Fate of the Hindon River by Evaluating the Impact of Agriculture on the Water Balance Developing a Template for a Cleaner Ganga River
• Streaming Analytics over Temporal Variables from Air Quality Monitoring (SATVAM)
• Ultra-Clean Emissions DME Fuelled Tractor Engine Prototype Development for Agricultural Applications
• Deployment of Zero Waste Toilets and Waterless Urinals in Magh Mela Allahabad
• Development of a Smartphone Camera-Based Sensor for Detection and Remediation of Chromium Pollution in Water (Imprint No. 6840)
• Periscope- Pollution Monitoring, Emissions Control, and Remediation Methods to Safeguard Irrigation Schemes using Treated Wastewater in Changing Climate for Peri-Urban Agriculture
• Indo-UK Joint Project: Towards an Integrated Approach for assessing the Impact of Climatic Stresses on Agriculture and the Exchange of Green House Gas on the IGP
• Air Quality Monitoring of Twelve Notified Air Pollutants
• "Dust or Soot? Tracing the Primary Drivers of increased Glacial Melt of The Himalayan Glaciers"
• Highly Efficient, Low Emission Gasoline Compression Ignition Engine Prototype Development
• Studies on Aerosol Behaviour under severe accident conditions in the context of Indian Nuclear Reactors by Setting up of National Aerosol Facility
• Geochemical Processes governing in situ remediation of Fluoride bearing Groundwater using suitable chemical amendments
• Investigation of Combustion and Soot Process in a Compression Ignition Engine Fuelled with Biodiesel
• Ganga River Health in the Middle Stretch
• Study on Impact of Bio- Aerosols, Particulate based Organics and Metals on the Health of Exposed Population Residing at a Major Site within the Indo-Gangetic Plain
• Crowdsourcing Water Quality: Using Mobile Technology and Rapid Microbiological Test to assess Drinking Water Risks in Rural India.
• Thermal Infrared Technologies for Supporting Environmental Assessment and Decision Making in the Ganges Basin (Part-B)
• Megacity Delhi Atmospheric Emission Quantification
• Review of National Air Quality Standards
• Printing and Circulation of GRBMP
• Characterization and Monitoring of Containment Plume Migration from Waste Dump Sites in Shallow Aquifers using Time- Lapse Geophysical Studies Coupled with Geochemical Analyses and Associated Hydrogeology
• C-Ganga Service Centre
• Chemical Characterization of Organic Aerosols Under Difference Environmental Conditions
• Designing of a Novel, Off- Centric Nozzle Impaction Based Automatic PM 2.5 Air Sampler
• Operation and Maintenance of 07 Nos of Mobile Zero Discharge Toilet Systems during Magh Mela-2015
• Delhi Air Quality Experiment: A Paradigm Shift in Source Apportionment; IIT-M and Hisar Part
• Understanding the Physical Mechanisms of Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Compound Drought and Heat Wave Events in India
• Black and Brown Carbon Influence on Climate Change in India -From Local to Regional Scale
• Air Quality Sampling and Source Apportionment in NCR (Outside Delhi)

Geoinformatics

• National Centre of Excellence in Geodesy
• Fist Program
• Generation and Labelling of Lidar Point Cloud for Automatic Classification through CNN Approach
• SPARC: Part-II: Advanced Parking Information and Management for Indian Traffic
• SPARC: Development of Precise Gravimetric Geoid Model for India using Terrestrial, Airborne and Satellite Gravity Data
• Constructing a consistent Climate Record of Surface Soil Moisture for the Ganga Basin using Space-Geodetic Sensors
• Multi Sensor Approach for Land Slide Monitoring
• Information Fusion of Hyperspectral and other Data Sets for Modeling of Snow Hydrological Potential
• A Multi-Sensor Approach to Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Unstructured Environments
• SPIRIT: A Post-Processing System for Navic Signals for High- Precision Applications
• GIS and Soft Computing based Land Consolidation System
• Integration of Spectral and Spatial Information for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Geotechnical Engineering

• Damage Mitigation Strategies for Buried Structures in different Geological Media under Propagation of Blast Waves from Near Field Explosion
• A Study of Time Effects on Behaviour of Pile-Raft Foundations
• Micro-Pore-Mechanical Modelling of Shale Anisotropy and Permeability
• Strain Dependent Static and Cyclic Behavior of Bio-Enzyme Stabilized Expansive Soil
• Permeability Evolution in Deep- Reservoir Rocks: An Experimental and Numerical Study
• Hydro-Mechanical Behavior of Compacted Soils under varied Stress State and Saturation Conditions
• Seismic Performance Assessment of Ash-Filled MSE Walls
• Low-Cost Vibration Screening Technique for Machine Excitation in Built-Up area using Bamboos
• Development of Design Guidelines/Charts for Quick Estimation of Caverns Behavior & Support Layout including Openings based on 3D FEM Analysis
• An Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Indian Crushable Sands under Cyclic Loading
• Field Validation 0f Stabilized Material for Subgrade Pavement
• Design of Micro piles to Stabilize Railway Embankment
• Fist Program
• Multi Sensor Approach for Land Slide Monitoring

Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering

• Fist Program
• Continuous Discharge Measurement in Small Open Channel by using Ultrasonic Tomography. (Imprint No. 7535)
• Short and Long-Term Fog Predictions Using Data Science
• Establishing a Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) in the Ganga Basin: Focus on Water Balance, Water Quality, and Hydrometeorological Information System
• Temporal Variability of Soil Hydraulic properties in Agricultural Fields
• Partitioning Evatranspiration into Evaporation and Transpiration Fluxes using Isotopes of Oxygen and Hydrogen
• Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Water Movement under Heterogeneous Conditions in Unsaturated Soils
• Estimation of Effective Hydraulic Properties of Macropores in Soils using Surface Soil Moisture Observations
• Macroscopic Hydraulic Modelling of Urban Flood Inundation
• Characterization of Dispersive Mixing in Buoyancy Driven Flows in Porous Media
• Onset of a Flood Warning System: An Experiment and Computational Model
• Statistical Downscaling for Hydro-Climatic Projections with Cmip5 Simulation to assess Impact of Climate Change
• Establishing the Reference Condition on the Ganga River with Corona Archival Imagery
• Experimental Investigation of Pressure Flow Deck Scour
• Unravelling Shringverpura: Ancient Technology for Harvesting Water
• Characterization and Monitoring of Containment Plume Migration from Waste Dump Sites in Shallow Aquifers using Time- Lapse Geophysical Studies Coupled with Geochemical Analyses and Associated Hydrogeology

Structural Engineering

• Fist Program
• Continuous Monitoring of Sampreeti Setu (New Jubilee Bridge): Instrumentation, Design And Health Assessment
• Instrumentation for Real-Time Measurement of various Parameters on the Elevated Track over Viaduct at Rohtak
• Regional Hub and Technical Centre (Technology Submission of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, MHUPA)
• Real-Time Hybrid Simulation: Implementation, Validation and Application to Multi-Hazard Performance Assessment of Buildings Outfitted with a Novel Damping Device
• Structural Identification from Incomplete and Uncertain Information: Identifiability, Optimal Experiment Design and Probabilistic Condition Assessment
• Study of Structural Integrity of Submerged Intake Structures with Variation in Tehri Reservoir Water Head with Particular Reference to the Construction and Lift Joints
• Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring for Superior Information Extraction
• Design of Nonlinear Spring as A Re-Centering Mechanism in Flat Sliding Base Isolation System
• Development of Super Elastic Friction Damper (SFD) for Vibration Control of Pipelines
• Development of Draft Protocol for testing of Structural Components and Systems for use in projects under Housing for All (Urban)
• Detectability of Critical Delamination in Composite Space Components: Vibration Based Approach
• Study on the Nonlinear Mechanics of Bi-Stable Composite Shells and Development of A Generalized Semi-Analytical Model using Pb2 Rayleigh-Ritz Framework for assessing their usages in Civil Infrastructure
• Stress Concentration Factors in Curved Plates for Space Applications
• Women in Undergraduate Engineering in India: A Study of Gender in Academic Environment
• Construction Safety and Quality Control Studies
• Beneficial Utilization of Sustainable Industrial Waste for the development of Self- Compacting Cement Based Precast Panels
• Specialized Test and Investigations (Research Mode) on Prestressed Concrete Sleepers
• Structural Control Using Tuned Liquid Dampers: An Investigation Through Real-Time Hybrid Simulation
• Bridge Instrumentation System Design for Bridge of various types, spans, and age: Damage Assessment in Standardized Railway Bridge Truss
• Development of a Sliding Bearing for Earthquake Protection of Structures
• Finite Element Modelling for Seismic Analysis Of Non-Structural Plaster Board Suspended Ceiling Systems

Transportation Engineering

• Investing the Role of Changes in Physicochemical Properties of Cementitious Materials on Long Term Performance of Stabilized Layers
• Characterization, Evaluation and Modelling of Passing Behaviour on Two-Lane Highways using Naturalistic Driving Data in Disordered Traffic
• Computer Vision Based Smart Traffic Intersection Monitoring in Unstructured Environment
• Joint Research Study between Aalto University & IIT Kanpur on Recycling of Asphalt Materials in Road Construction