IIT Madras Hydro

Can you tell me about the research topics other than Hydro-informatics in Department of Civil Engineering in IITM (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)?

[pawan]

The research topics in Department of Civil Engineering in IITM (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) are as follows:

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering
- Water recycling and reuse, Rural water supply
- Domestic and industrial wastewater treatment
- Bioremediation, Environmental biotechnology, Arsenic removal
- Indoor/Outdoor Air pollution monitoring and modelling
- Ground water modelling, Contaminant transport in porous media
- Environmental & water resource systems analysis & design
- Irrigation water management, Integrated water quality modelling
- Hydraulic modelling and Environmental hydraulics
- Regionalisation of hydrologic information
- Climate change, Flood and drought assessment
- Hydro-informatics (GIS, remote sensing and hydrologic modelling)

Building Technology & Construction Management
- Concrete technology & high performance concrete
- Corrosion & chemical attack on concrete
- Light weight concrete
- High performance masonry
- Advanced methods of construction project management
- Repair and restoration of monuments
- Building physics, acoustics and noise control
- Infrastructure management
- Sustainable construction and development
- Automation, Information, and communication technologies in urban infrastructure

Geotechnical Engineering
- Geosynthetics and reinforced soil structures
- Disposal and utilization of fly ash
- Seismic site characterization and non-linear ground response analysis
- Seismic microzonation and risk studies
- Cyclic and dynamic lateral response of pile groups
- Liquefaction mitigation by passive remediation techniques
- Ground improvement techniques
- Stochastic FEM analysis of reinforced soil structures
- Deep excavation and tunnelling
- Reliability analysis of pile raft foundations

Structural Engineering
- Reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
- Steel and steel-concrete composite structures
- Bridge engineering
- Structural and computational mechanics
- Deterministic and probabilistic structural dynamics
- Earthquake resistant design, retrofitting and testing
- Fracture mechanics
- FRP composite structures
- Structural reliability and optimisation
- Wind engineering

Transportation Engineering
- Travel demand modeling and forecasting
- Traffic simulation of heterogeneous traffic
- Highway capacity and level-of-service (LoS) studies
- Traffic flow modelling of Indian traffic
- Analysis of uncontrolled and signalized intersections
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Traffic congestion, accident and road safety analysis
- Transit systems operation and fleet management
- Transport network optimization
- Flexible and rigid pavement design
- Pavement maintenance management
- Performance based evaluation of pavement materials
- Constitutive modeling of bitumen bound granular materials
- Characterization of straight-run and modified asphalt