Major Research Areas:
The major research areas under this specialization include air quality modeling in urban transport and industrial environment, environmental noise modeling, water quality modeling, biodegradation of industrial wastewater, removal of heavy metals from wastewater, sludge treatment by physicochemical and biological process.
The major research areas under this specialization include soil behavior, shallow and deep foundations, reinforced soil structures, landslides, constitutive modeling, soil dynamics, analysis and design of machine foundations, engineering seismology, wave propagation, seismic site characterization, seismic soil-structure interaction, seismic stability of slopes and retaining walls, design of offshore foundations, field instrumentation and testing, ground improvement techniques, geo-environmental engineering.
The major research areas under this specialization include structural dynamics, bridge engineering, wind induced vibration & control, non destructive techniques, passive and semi-active control of buildings, performance based seismic design, system identification & structural health monitoring, seismic damage assessment, finite element mesh generation, optimization, retrofitting of structures, spectral finite element methods, structural reliability, fluid-structure interaction, seismic analysis of concrete dam, , cost effective housing.
The major research areas under this specialization include characterization of pavement materials, pre-cast concrete block pavement, cast-in-situ concrete block pavement, pavement design, structural and functional evaluation of pavements, traffic engineering and issues related to road safety.
Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering
The major research areas under this specialization include meso-scale distributed hydrological modeling, satellite remote sensing and GIS for water resources management, computational river hydraulics and its applications, watershed and irrigation management, flow through porous media, stochastic sub-surface hydrology, rainfall modeling, modeling & simulation in free surface flow, heuristic method in reservoir optimization, GIS based watershed modeling, Dam Break Analysis.