IIT Madras Civil Projects

Give me details about the research projects of the Department of Civil Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Madras?

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The Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras annually undertake sponsored research projects worth over 100 lakhs Rupees and consultancy projects worth over 200 lakhs Rupees.

Some of the on-going research topics in the department are listed below.

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

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)

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

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Contact Details:
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Beside Adyar Cancer Institute, Opposite to C.L.R.I
Sardar Patel Rd
Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036