Current Sponsored Projects

Project Title : Bridge scour estimation, measurement and protection and use of various time systems like TDR, TTS and SA
Principal Investigator : Subhasish Dey
Sponsor : RDSO
Project Title : Probabilistic estimation of soil moisture from RISAT1 data along with uncertainty quantification
Principal Investigator : Dr. Rajib Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : SAC, ISRO, Ahmedabad
Project Title : Strengthening the Research & Postgraduate Teaching in the Areas of Structural, Geotechnical, Environmental & Transportation Engg.
Principal Investigator : Prof. S.K. Bhattacharya
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S.K. Barai & Prof. A. Sengupta
Sponsor : Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi
Project Title : Artificial intelligence for societal needs: knowledge discovery and intelligent decision making for solving problems in Indian context related to ener
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. Sarkar and Prof. P. Dasgupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. P. P. Chakrabarty, Dr. P. Mitra, Dr. Bhargab Maitra, Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay and others
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Assessment of various strategies of seating arrangements for Indian Rail coaches from the viewpoint of Occupant safety
Principal Investigator : Sudeshna Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nilanjan Mitra
Sponsor : Research Design and Standards Organization, Ministry of Rail, India (RDSO)
Project Title : Virtual Lab - Soft Computing Tools in Engineering
Principal Investigator : Sudhirkumar Barai
Co-Principal-Investigators : -
Sponsor : MHRD, New Delhi
Project Title : Development of Microbial Fuel Cell for Direct Electricity Recovery During Wastewater Treatment
Principal Investigator : M.M. Ghangrekar
Co-Principal-Investigators : A. Pal
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi
Project Title : Pilot Phase of the National Mission Project on Pedagogic Development for the course Hydraulics
Principal Investigator : Dr. V. R. Desai
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. A. Dhar
Sponsor : National Mission Project on Education through ICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI
Project Title : Damage assessment of composite structures using swarm based optimization technique from changes of vibration response
Principal Investigator : Dr. D. K. Maiti
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. D. Maity
Sponsor : Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO
Project Title : Development & Dissemination of Appropriate Tech. for Small Scale Grain Storage for Value Addition, Improving Marketability & Income of Farm Families
Principal Investigator : Dr. S. C. Mahapatra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. D. Maity
Sponsor : Department of Agriculture MW & C Branch, Government of West Bengal Marketing
Project Title : Damage assessment of aircraft structures from limited vibration data
Principal Investigator : Dr. D. Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. D. K. maiti
Sponsor : Aeronautical Research & Development Board
Project Title : Sensor network and web-enablement for geospatial technology based tools development and disaster management: a pilot study
Principal Investigator : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Saswat Chakraborty
Sponsor : Department of Science and Technology
Project Title : Efficiency Study of Damodar Left Bank Irrigation System and Strategies for Integrated Command Area Water Management
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Dhar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. D Sen, Dr. S.J. Hossain
Sponsor : MoWR, INDIA
Project Title : Advanced Research Laboratory on Safety and Uncertainty Analyses of Infrastructure Systems
Principal Investigator : Baidurya Bhattacharya
Co-Principal-Investigators : Rajib Mall, Sunando Dasgupta, S. K. Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay
Sponsor : BARC, Mumbai
Project Title : Development of durable water repellent jute geotextile
Principal Investigator : D Roy
Co-Principal-Investigators : B Adhikari, RK Sen
Sponsor : Jute Manufacturers Development Council
Project Title : Seismic hazard assessment, microzonation, and evaluation of vulnerability, risk and socio-economic impacts for the city of Kolkata
Principal Investigator : SK Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : P Sengupta, D Roy, N Dhang, D Das (WBSCST), RK Majumdar (Jadavpur Univ), BC Chattopadhyay (BESU), an
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
Project Title : Bridge scour measurement and protection and use of various real time monitoring systems like TDR, TTS, SMC & SA
Principal Investigator : Dr Subhasish Dey
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr H Prashanth Reddy
Sponsor : RDSO Lucknow
Project Title : Development of a web course on Probability methods for Civil Engineering
Principal Investigator : Dr. Rajib Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India
Project Title : Production of Ligonocellulosic Fuels: from Lab to Pilot Scale (PLF)
Principal Investigator : Prof. Rintu Banerjee
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. Chakraborty, Prof. S. Ray
Sponsor : DBT
Project Title : Aerosol Chemical and Optical characteristics over an urban coastal city in the Ganges Delta
Principal Investigator : S. Verma
Sponsor : SRIC
Project Title : Creep and warping (including gauge widening) analysis of hot running loco wheels towards development of design guidelines against gauge widening
Principal Investigator : Vikranth Racherla
Co-Principal-Investigators : Arghya Deb
Sponsor : RDSO
Project Title : Mathematical and Physical Modeling of Arsenic Transport Through Porous Media
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Dhar
Sponsor : SRIC, IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Smater water resources management, Disaster Mitigation & Diabatic Retinopathy (WDD)
Principal Investigator : Prof. D J Sen, Prof. Chandan Chakraborty
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Rajib Maity, Dr. Anirban Dhar, Dr. M Mandal
Sponsor : IBM India Private Limited
Project Title : Managing change in Soil Moisture and Agricultural Productivity under a Global Warming scenario using a Catchment Scale Climate Change Assessment Frame
Principal Investigator : Prof. D Nagesh Kumar, IISc, Bangalore
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Rajib Maity, IIT Kharagpur, Dr. V V Srinivas, IISc, Bangalore
Sponsor : Australia-India Strategic Research Funds (AISRF)
Project Title : Characterization of Ballistic Performance of Ceramic-Metal Composite Armour against Armour Piercing (AP) Projectile
Principal Investigator : Amit Shaw
Sponsor : SRIC
Project Title : Improving mechanical performance and delamination resistance in sandwich composite panels
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Sponsor : Department of Science and Technology (DST/SERC), India
Project Title : Upgradation of laboratory and library facilities for renewable energy programme (ULR)
Principal Investigator : Prof. R. Banerjee
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. Chakraborty
Sponsor : Ministry of New and Renuable Energy, Govt. of India.
Project Title : Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on the Stability and Chaotic Behavior of Non-Smooth Flexible, Curved and Twisted Pipe subjected to Followe
Principal Investigator : S J Hossain
Sponsor : IIT- Kharagpur (ISIRD-SRIC Scheme)
Project Title : Trip Makersâ€™ Perception towards Hard and Soft Factors of Bus Service and the Impact of these Factors on Bus Ridership in Urban areas
Principal Investigator : Bhargab Maitra
Sponsor : Human Settlement Management Institute, HUDCO, Govt. of India
Project Title : Arresting delamination propagation of sandwich composite panels with initial face/core debond subjected to inplane compression load
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Sponsor : SRIC-ISIRD
Project Title : Pilot Phase of the National Mission Project on Pedagogic Development for the course â€˜Solid Mechanicsâ€™
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Amit Shaw
Sponsor : National Mission Project on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Future of Cities
Principal Investigator : Dr. Bhargab Maitra and Dr. Joy Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Several Faculty of IIT Kharagpur
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Urban - design, planning & urban engineering exploration of Varanasi
Principal Investigator : Prof. P. P. Chakrabarty and Prof. Joy Se
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Bhargab Maitra, Dr. P. Dasgupta, Dr. P. Patnaik, Dr. H. Banerjee, and Dr. A. Mukherjee
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Determination of leishmanicidial potential of metal nanoparticles and their conjugates
Principal Investigator : Dr. A. Siddhanta
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Anjali Pal
Sponsor : Calcutta University
Project Title : Synthesis and characterization of mono and bimetallic nanoparticles on supported systems and their application for the degradation of organic pollutan
Principal Investigator : Dr. Anjali Pal
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : IIT Kharagpur (under ISIRD)
Project Title : Ganga River Basin - Environment Management Plan
Principal Investigator : Prof. V Tare, IITK
Co-Principal-Investigators : S Goel: Team leader for Emerging contaminants
Sponsor : MoEF
Project Title : Efficiency study of Damodar left bank irrigation system
Principal Investigator : Dr. Anirban Dhar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sen
Sponsor : Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India
Project Title : Application of geocell reinforcement for performance improvement of anchored foundations under uplift
Principal Investigator : Sujit Kumar Dash
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : SRIC, IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Probabilistic simulation and future estimation of soil moisture distribution over India using Hydroclimatic data
Principal Investigator : Dr. Rajib Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Optimization of rib pattern in steel rebars to achieve enhanced fatigue life and good bond strength
Principal Investigator : Arghya Deb
Sponsor : Tata Steel
Project Title : GANGA RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN
Principal Investigator : Dr A K Gupta and Dr S Goel
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr M M Ghangrekar
Sponsor : MoEF, New Delhi
Project Title : Underwater non-contact explosive response of marine grade sandwich composite panels
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Amit Shaw, Sk. Jahangir Hussain, Anirban Dhar
Sponsor : Naval Research Board (NRB/DRDO), India [ NRB-226/HYD/10-11 ]
Project Title : Development of microbial fuel cell for direct electricity recovery during waste water treatment
Principal Investigator : Dr. M. M. Ghangrekar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Anjali Pal
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Guidelines for Bicycle Infrastructure Design and Policy
Principal Investigator : Sudeshna Mitra
Sponsor : HSMI, HUDCO
Project Title : Seismic Hazard Assessment, Microzonation and Evaluation of Vernerability, Risk & Socio-Economic Impacts for the City of Kolkata
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. K. Nath
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. P. Sengupta, Dr. D. Roy, Prof. N. Dhang
Sponsor : Minstry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi
Project Title : A creative economic & urban redisign based pilot project of Gariahat Area (In Association with Kolkata Museum of modern arts)
Principal Investigator : Prof. Joy Sen and Prof. K. Patil
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Bhargab Maitra, Dr. H. Banerjee, and Dr. P. Mishra
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Submicron aerosols in east India: sources, chemical characteristics, climate impacts
Principal Investigator : S. Verma
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Preparation of Ganga River Basin Management Plan
Principal Investigator : Joint Project of 7 IITs
Sponsor : National River Conservation Directorate, MOEF, INDIA
Project Title : Electrocoagulation in continuous-flow systems for removal of drinking water contaminants
Principal Investigator : SUDHA GOEL
Co-Principal-Investigators : NA
Sponsor : DST-WTI
Project Title : Developing suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in e-Learning
Principal Investigator : Prof. A Ray, Prof. B. Battacharya
Co-Principal-Investigators : Course developer: S Goel
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Supporting consolidation, replication and up-scaling of sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse technologies for India (SARASWATI).
Principal Investigator : M.M. Ghangrekar
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi
Project Title : Future of Cities
Principal Investigator : Prof. Bhargav Moitra and Prof. Joy Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Rajib Maity and 21 others
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India
Project Title : Hydrologic sensitivity to Cryosphere-Aerosol interaction in Mountain Processes
Principal Investigator : S. Verma, M. Sharma, J. F. Burkhart
Sponsor : DST, India; RCN, Norway
Project Title : Future of cities - Pilot plant study for solid waste treatment for IIT Kharagpur
Principal Investigator : Prof. B. Maitra and Prof. J.Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Sudha Goel
Sponsor : MHRD
Project Title : Attribution of inter-seasonal aerosol radiative effects of climate to aerosol constituents and emission sources: Integration of Measurements and Model
Principal Investigator : S. Verma
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Assessment of Various Strategies of Seating Arrangements for Indian Rail Coaches from the view point of Occupantâ€™s Safety
Principal Investigator : Sudeshna Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nilanjan Mitra
Sponsor : RDSO through Center for Railway Research
Project Title : Pilot Phase of the National Mission Project on Pedagogic Development for the course Hydraulics
Principal Investigator : Prof. V. R. Desai, Civ. Engg.
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. A. Dhar, Civ. Engg.
Sponsor : National Mission Project on Education through ICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI
Project Title : Underwater non-contact explosive response of marine grade sandwich composite panels (EMS)
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : S J Hossain, A Shaw, A Dhar
Sponsor : NRB/DRDO
Project Title : Development of Design Methodology for Chemically Treated Bamboo Reinforced Concrete members for Low Cost Housing
Principal Investigator : Dr. D. Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. K. Bhattacharyya and Prof. B. Adhikari
Sponsor : BMTPC, GOI
Project Title : Underwater non-contact explosive response of marine grade sandwich composite panels
Principal Investigator : Nilanjan Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : Anirban Dhar, Amit Shaw, SJ Hossain
Sponsor : Naval Research Board (NRB/DRDO), India
Project Title : Developing a Suitable Methodology for Identifying Accident Prone Sites in the Presence of Limited Data
Principal Investigator : Sudeshna Mitra
Co-Principal-Investigators : None
Sponsor : ISIRD, IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Strengthening the Research and Postgraduate teaching in areas of Structural, geotechnical, environmental and Transportation Engg- FIST program
Principal Investigator : HOD, Civil Engineering
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr.M.A. Reddy, Prof. S.K. Barai, Dr.Sudha Goel, Dr.A. Sengupta
Sponsor : DST New Delhi
Project Title : Experimental & Numerical Studies on Deep Excavation under Static & Seismic Conditions
Principal Investigator : Aniruddha Sengupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : Kousik Deb
Sponsor : SERB, DST, New Delhi
Project Title : HYDRODRIL (WP5)
Principal Investigator : A. Sengupta
Sponsor : European Union (Prof. Wei Wu, Coordinator)
Project Title : Energy efficiency, community based water and waste water treatment systems for development in India
Principal Investigator : Subhasish Dey
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi
Project Title : Development of Provisions for Design of Steel Concrete Railway Bridge for normal speed and special provision for high speed passenger traffic
Principal Investigator : Nirjhar Dhang
Co-Principal-Investigators : Sushanta Chakraborty, Arghya Deb
Sponsor : RDSO
Project Title : Assessing the current & future creative economic regeneration scope of traditional river -based heritage & eco-tourism networks in KMA, Bengal
Principal Investigator : Prof. Joyu Sen and Prof. S. K. Paul
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. Sen, Dr. B. Maitra, Dr. H. Banerjee and Dr. P. Mishra
Sponsor : MHRD, Govt. of India
Project Title : Award of Fellowship under national renewable fellowships
Principal Investigator : Prof. R. Banerjee
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Chakraborty.
Sponsor : Ministry of New and Renuable Energy, Govt. of India
Project Title : â€œP K Sinha Centre Project
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. Chakraborty,
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. R. Banerjee and Prof. M.M. Ghangrekar
Sponsor : Dr. Prabhakant Sinha for enhancing research activities on Bioenergy.
Project Title : Ganga River Basin Environmental Management Plan
Principal Investigator : Prof. D.J. Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : M.M. Ghangrekar, Dr. A.K. Gupta, Dr. S. Goel.
Sponsor : Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi.
Project Title : Standard Specifications and Design Practices for Asphalt-Rubber Gap-Graded (AR-Gap) Mixtures
Principal Investigator : Dr. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri
Sponsor : SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Project Title : Development of Crack Propagation Criteria for Asphalt Mixtures
Principal Investigator : Dr. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri
Sponsor : Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development (ISIRD), IIT Kharagpur
Project Title : Experimental modelling of flow characteristics in and around emergent vegetation patches
Principal Investigator : H Prashanth Reddy
Sponsor : SRIC
Project Title : Development of provisions for design of steel concrete Railway bridges for normal speed and special provision for high speed passenger traffic
Principal Investigator : Prof. N Dhang
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. S Chakraborty, Dr. A. Deb, Dr. D. Roy
Sponsor : Ministry of Railways, RDSO, Lucknow
Project Title : Development of railway bridge health monitoring system with wireless sensor network
Principal Investigator : Prof. Raja Data
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. S. Sen, Prof. N. Dhang, Prof. P. K. Biswas, Prof. D. Datta
Sponsor : Ministry of Railways, RDSO, Lucknow
Project Title : Development of Pervious Concrete Mix Designs and Specifications for Pavement Applications
Principal Investigator : Dr. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Kusam Sudhakar Reddy
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Project Title : Size Effect in unconfined and weakly confined cylindrical concrete columns
Principal Investigator : Arghya Deb
Co-Principal-Investigators : Sushanta Chakraborty
Sponsor : DST
Project Title : Modelling of Soil Moisture in a Changing Climate using the Potential of Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Approach
Principal Investigator : Prof. Rajib Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : Ministry of Earth Science (MoES), Government of India
Project Title : Effect of Climate Change on local sea level rise and its Impact on Coastal Areas: Kolkata Region as a Pilot Study
Principal Investigator : Prof. Rajib Maity
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. P K Bhaskaran
Sponsor : MHRD (As a part of Future of Cities, mentioned above)
Project Title : Investigation on the performance of geogrid-reinforced soil slopes under strip loading
Principal Investigator : Dr. Debarghya Chakraborty
Co-Principal-Investigators : Nil
Sponsor : SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Project Title : Investigation of the Use of Recycled Asphalt Pavements (RAP): Development of Design Specifications and Practices
Principal Investigator : Dr. Kusam Sudhakar Reddy
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri, Dr. M. Amarantha Reddy
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Project Title : Estimation of settlements for design of facilities to be constructed over MSW landfills
Principal Investigator : Dr. Debasis Roy
Co-Principal-Investigators : Dr. Debarghya Chakraborty, Dr. Deepankar Choudhury, Dr.-Ing. B. V. S. Viswanadham
Sponsor : Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Project Title : Force identification in existing structures
Principal Investigator : Dr. B Radhika
Sponsor : DST, New Delhi, India