Civil Engineering | IIT Kanpur

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The Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur is producing since 1961, high quality technical manpower needed by industry, R&D organizations, and academic institutions.
The Department offers B. Tech., B. Tech. - M. Tech. Dual degree in Civil Engineering, and M.Tech degree in Civil Engineering with seven specializations, i.e., Environmental Engineering, Geoinformatics, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics ... - Read More

-Prof. Priyanka Ghosh

Head, Department of Civil Engineering

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Recent Publications

Spot admissions to PhD program for B.Tech. students^New
e-Masters Program
Webinar for prospective faculty candidates ^New
Prof. S. N. Tripathi has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Medal 2025 of the European Geophysical Union
Prof. Salil Goel has been selected for the INAE Young Associates 2024
Prof. S. N. Tripathi has been selected for the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Chair
Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has been selected for the Arjun Dev Joneja Faculty Chair
Prof. K. V. Harish has been promoted to Associate Professor position.
Congratulations to the Current Graduating Batch of 2024
Prof. Gourabananda Pahar has been selected for the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Research Fellowship
PG admissions July 2024 now open
Devendra Shukla Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar was organized on 10th April, 2024 with Mr Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Executive Vice Chairman of Afcons Infrastructure Limited as the Distinguished Speaker
Sankalan, a national level CE Conclave, organized by the Society of Civil Engineers IIT Kanpur, will be held from 27-28th January, 2024
Prof. S. N. Tripathi has been awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize 2023 in ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE by Infosys Science Foundation.
Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, as an Associate Editor.
IITK CE alumni (M. Tech/PhD student) Prof. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo has been awarded the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2022
Applications invited for a Masters by Research (MSR) position in the area of Environmental Engineering in Walk-In mode
Ms Akanksha, PhD student of Prof. S.N. Tripathi, has got the second position in the poster competition held in ICAS 2023, Bangalore
Seminar on Offshore Geomechanics by Dr. Anamitra Roy, University of Melbourne, 30/08/2023
Prof. Abhas Singh and Prof. Sudib K Mishra have been awarded Excellence-in-Teaching Award 2023
Dr. Suparno Mukhopadhyay has been selected as the prestigious Professor R.N. Biswas Young Faculty Fellowship in Teaching Excellence.
e-Masters Program
Abhilasha Tripathi, PhD student of Prof. P. Bose has received Science innovation award at the International Conference on Agriculture and Rural development, held at Bhubaneswar.
**Surya Sujathan (PhD student) and Prof. Abhas Singh published an article titled, "Investigation of Potential Drivers of Elevated Uranium Prevalence in Indian Groundwaters with a Unified Speciation Model" in the top journal Environmental Science and Technology **
Patent Granted to Dr. Tarun Gupta and Mr. Anand Kumar (student) || Patent No.- 418343 || Title: MULTIPLE SLIT NOZZLE-BASED HIGH VOLUME PM2.5 IMPACTOR ASSEMBLY || IPA No.- 2088/DEL/2014
New technology for retrofitting non-earthquake-resistant buildings can prevent major damage in old settlements
STRENGTH MAGAZINE FOR THE YEAR 2022
Dr. K.K. Bajpai, Scientific Officer, has been promoted to the post of Chief Scientific Officer at IIT Kanpur in the department of Civil Engineering.
M.Tech student Anshul Rawat, Prof. Mukesh Sharma and Prof. Anubha Goyal granted a patent for developing technology for growing fresh veggies in high-altitude areas.
Congratulation to all the Awardees (Batch 2022)
Congratulations to Current Graduating Batch 2022.
MSR student Tavishi Mishra has received the best oral presentation award at the ICESE 2022 conference organized at IIT Bombay.
Prof. Tarun Gupta, current occupant of Prof. N.C. Nigam Memorial Chair
B. Tech student Shivansh Tripathi has been awarded Prof. ASR Sai Memorial Medal and General Proficiency Medal at the 54th Convocation – 2021.
M. Tech student Patel Ajay Kumar Dahyalal has been awarded Prof. ASR Sai Gold Medal at 54th Convocation – 2021.
PhD student Gyanesh Kumar Singh has been awarded Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award at the 54th Convocation – 2021.
PhD student Behera Prasanna Kumar has been awarded Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award at the 54th Convocation - 2021.
Prof. Gaurav Tiwari's publication has been awarded IGS-Roorkee Chapter YGE Award 2021(Best Paper published in the area of Rock Mechanics).
Prof. Durgesh C. Rai has been awarded the 2021 John B. Scalzi Research Award during The Masonry Society’s Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee
Prof. Sachchida N. Tripathi has been invited to join the Advisory Board of Journal, Environmental Science: Atmospheres, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Prof. Mukesh Sharma has been appointed as an honorary non-remunerative member of the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health - Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG).
PhD student Mr Akshat Verma received a certificate of merit from American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020 virtual meeting.
Prof. Sachchidanand Tripathi has received the prestigious J.C. Bose Fellowship from SERB, DST.
New programme DIIT program in three broad areas: (i) Geodesy (ii) Navigation and Mapping and (iii) Remote Sensing and GIS.
Prof. Sachchidanand Tripathi has been elected as the Fellow of Indian National Science Academy.
Prof. Partha Chakroborty has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2020.
Prof. Rajesh Srivastava has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2020.
Prof. Sachchida Tripathi has been appointed as a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
Dr. Pranamesh Chakraborty is serving as one of the guest editors in the Special Issue "Deep Learning in Transportation" in the BDAT journal.
Mr. Vishwajeet Khan (Ph.D. Student) has been awarded IGS-Bangalore Chapter Young Geotechnical Engineer Award for the year 2019 (Best Paper published in the area of Environmental Geotechnology).
Dr. Gaurav Tiwari has been awarded IGS-Prof. Leonard’s Annual Award for the year 2018 for his Ph.D Thesis.
PG admission notice 2019-20, 2nd Semester
Prof. B. Nagarajan has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2019.
Prof. P. Bose has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2019.
Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patra has been invited as a member of Editorial Board of Indian Geotechnical Journal (2019).
Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has been invited as a member of Editorial Board of Indian Geotechnical Journal (2019)
Mr. Sunil Nishad received Merit Award - 2018 for his relentless service to the users of the Hydraulics Laboratory.
Dr. Salil Goel has been selected for the Young Geospatial Scientist 2018 award and the Rachapudi Kamakshi Memorial Gold Medal.
PG admission notice 2018-19, 2nd Semester and 2019-20, 1st semester.
STudent Enrichment Program (STEP) – An initiative to facilitate students’ travel
Mr. Saifi Izhar (PhD student) has been awarded with Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the international conference AJM 2018 Xian.
Dr. Tarun Gupta, has been selected for the INAE Innovator Entrepreneur Award 2018.
Presentation: Welcome to New PG students 2018-19.
Prof. SachchidaNand Tripathi awarded 2018 UP Ratna Award, Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Prof. Salil Goel Awarded Best Paper Award for the paper titled " An Indoor Outdoor Cooperative Localization Framework for UAVs" at International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) Conference 2018 held in Sydney, Australia from February 7-9, 2018.
Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has become the member of Editorial Review Board in International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2018).
Dr. Sudib Kumar Mishra (CE), has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award of 2016
Prof. Sachchida Nand Tripathi (Civil Engg.) awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences.
Visit PG admission section to see the list of selected M.Tech. and M.S.R. candidates in the last round of admissions.
Dr. S.N. Tripathi is fundedresearch project entitled "Building a Novel System for Soot: Measurement, Toxicity Assessment and Source Identification" funded by MHRD, India.
Dr. Bharat Lohani delivered lecture talk entitled "LiDAR Remote Sensing and Its Application Potential" in IIRS User Interaction Meet 2014, Dehradun on February 20, 2014.
Dr. D.C. Rai delivered lecture talk entitled "Masonry Research at IIT Kanpur" at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati on March 21, 2014.
Dr. S.N. Tripathi delivered lecture talk entitled "Observations and Monitoring Needs" and "Scientific Basis for Knowledge to Action" in Policy Conclave on Reducing Vehicular Emissions to Improve Air Quality, New Delhi on February 4, 2014.
Dr. S.N. Tripathi delivered lecture talk entitled "Atmospheric Aerosol Measurements: India Perspective" in National Space Science Symposium, Dibrugargh on February 1, 2014
Dr. Tarun Gupta delivered lecture talk entitled "Measurement Instrumentation for Radiatively Active Constituents"in 1st Climate Science and Policy Workshop, Mumbai on March 7, 2014.

Ganesh, R., & Sahoo, J. P. (2023). Kinematic horizontal slice method for uplift capacity analysis of plate anchors in nonhomogeneous soils with a nonlinear failure criterion. In Computers and Geotechnics (Vol. 159, p. 105407). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105407
Parik, P., & Patra, N. R. (2023). Applicability of Clay Soil Stabilized with Red Mud, Bioenzyme, and Red Mud–Bioenzyme as a Subgrade Material in Pavement. In Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (Vol. 27, Issue 2). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). https://doi.org/10.1061/jhtrbp.hzeng-1182
Cai, X., Leng, Z., Kumar Ashish, P., Yang, J., & Gong, M. (2023). Quantitative analysis of the role of temperature in the mesoscale damage process of semi flexible pavement composite through finite element method. In Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (Vol. 124, p. 103742). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2022.103742
Majumder, R., Chakraborty, S., & Mishra, S. K. (2023). Reliability analysis and design of randomly imperfect thin cylindrical shells against post-critical drops. In Thin-Walled Structures (Vol. 185, p. 110576). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2023.110576
Mufti, S., & Das, A. (2023). Multiscale pore network construction for two phase flow simulations in granular soils. In Advances in Water Resources (Vol. 173, p. 104386). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104386
Huang, T., Chakraborty, P., & Sharma, A. (2023). Deep convolutional generative adversarial networks for traffic data imputation encoding time series as images. In International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 1–18). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtst.2021.10.007
Gupta, S., & Nair, S. (2023). A review of the emerging role of UAVs in construction site safety monitoring. In Materials Today: Proceedings. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.03.135
Singh, G. K., Qadri, A. M., Paul, D., Gupta, T., Mukherjee, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Investigation of sources and atmospheric transformation of carbonaceous aerosols from Shyamnagar, eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: Insights from δ13C and carbon fractions. In Chemosphere (Vol. 326, p. 138422). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138422
Xie, S.-C., Kolay, C., Feng, D.-C., & Ricles, J. M. (2023). Nonlinear static analysis of extreme structural behavior: Overcoming convergence issues via an unconditionally stable explicit dynamic approach. In Structures (Vol. 49, pp. 58–69). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2023.01.086
Sahu, C. K., & Neufeld, J. A. (2023). Experimental insights into gravity-driven flows and mixing in layered porous media. In Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Vol. 956). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.1082
Malik, R., Singh, G., Dikshit, O., & Yamaguchi, Y. (2023). General Five-Component Scattering Power Decomposition with Unitary Transformation (G5U) of Coherency Matrix. In Remote Sensing (Vol. 15, Issue 5, p. 1332). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051332
Sujathan, S., & Singh, A. (2023). Investigation of Potential Drivers of Elevated Uranium Prevalence in Indian Groundwaters with a Unified Speciation Model. In Environmental Science & Technology (Vol. 57, Issue 5, pp. 1970–1986). American Chemical Society (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08524
Barbhaya, D., Tran, J., Khetan, A., Hejjaji, V., Jain, S., Chan, C., & Goel, A. (2023). Rationale and Design of a Study to Test the Effect of Personal Protective Aids on Hypertension and Diabetes in People Living With High Levels of Air Pollution—Study Protocol. In Heart, Lung and Circulation (Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp. 124–130). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2022.11.001
Kumar, S., Tiwari, G., & Das, A. (2023). Experimental assessment of dynamic loading response of grouted non-persistent jointed rock. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 1124, Issue 1, p. 012055). IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1124/1/012055
Bagchi, A., & Raychowdhury, P. (2023). Sensitivity Study of the Pressure-Dependent Soil Model Based on the Abutment-Backfill Pushover Behaviour. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 129–139). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6998-0_13
Das, G., & Ghosh, P. (2023). Effect of Footing Size on the Dynamic Behaviour of Cohesionless Soil-Foundation System. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 505–513). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6998-0_43
Pandey, B. K., Rajesh, S., & Chandra, S. (2022). A State-of-the-Art Review on Electro-osmotic Treatment for Stabilization of Soft Soils. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 225–234). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6727-6_20
Latha, L., Ray-Chaudhuri, S., Mukhopadhyay, S., & Bajpai, K. K. (2022). Seismic Performance Enhancement of Unreinforced Brick Masonry Buildings by Retrofitting with Reinforced Concrete Bands: Full Scale Experiments. In Journal of Structural Engineering (Vol. 148, Issue 12). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)st.1943-541x.0003460
Latha, L., Ray-Chaudhuri, S., Mukhopadhyay, S., & Bajpai, K. K. (2022). Seismic Performance Enhancement of Unreinforced Brick Masonry Buildings by Retrofitting with Reinforced Concrete Bands: Full Scale Experiments. In Journal of Structural Engineering (Vol. 148, Issue 12). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)st.1943-541x.0003460
Gurjar, S. K., Shrivastava, S., Suryavanshi, S., & Tare, V. (2022). Assessment of the natural flow regime and its variability in a tributary of Ganga River: Impact of land use and land cover change. In Environmental Development (Vol. 44, p. 100756). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2022.100756
Chaudhary, A., & Akhtar, A. (2022). Template for Evaluating Cradle-to-Site Environmental Life Cycle Impacts of Buildings in India. In ACS Environmental Au (Vol. 3, Issue 2, pp. 94–104). American Chemical Society (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.2c00035
Chhabra, J. P. S., & Rai, D. C. (2022). Experimental testing of aluminum‐core buckling restrained knee braced Truss moment frames for earthquake resistance. In Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics (Vol. 52, Issue 3, pp. 660–680). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3780
Prakasam, C., Aravinth, R., Kanwar, V. S., & Nagarajan, B. (2022). Soil erosion risk assessment and its impact on landslides – A study on parts of Himalayan Region, India. In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH: ICAMSER-2021. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH: ICAMSER-2021. AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095256
Balakrishna Madayala, A., Jain, A., & Lohani, B. (2022). Development of a Physics-Guided Neural Network Model for Effective Urban Flood Management. In Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (Vol. 27, Issue 9). American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0002196
Mahata, B. K., Chang, S., & Bose, P. (2022). Bio-Inspired phosphate adsorption by Copper-Decorated weak base anion exchanger. In Separation and Purification Technology (Vol. 296, p. 121339). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2022.121339
Khan, S., Ashish, P. K., Kannelli, V., Hossain, K., Nagabhushana, M. N., & Tiwari, D. (2022). Potential application of over-burnt brick and fly ash for sustainable inverted pavement structure. In Construction and Building Materials (Vol. 345, p. 128298). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.128298
Vishwakarma, B. D., Ramsankaran, R., Azam, Mohd. F., Bolch, T., Mandal, A., Srivastava, S., Kumar, P., Sahu, R., Navinkumar, P. J., Tanniru, S. R., Javed, A., Soheb, M., Dimri, A. P., Yadav, M., Devaraju, B., Chinnasamy, P., Reddy, M. J., Murugesan, G. P., Arora, M., … Bamber, J. (2022). Challenges in Understanding the Variability of the Cryosphere in the Himalaya and Its Impact on Regional Water Resources. In Frontiers in Water (Vol. 4). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.909246
Gupta, B. K. (2022). Dynamic pile-head stiffness of laterally loaded end-bearing pile in linear viscoelastic soil − A comparative study. In Computers and Geotechnics (Vol. 145, p. 104654). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.104654
Chauhan, P., Kanagaraj, V., & Asaithambi, G. (2022). Understanding the mechanism of lane changing process and dynamics using microscopic traffic data. In Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (Vol. 593, p. 126981). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2022.126981
Bhat, N. U. H., & Pahar, G. (2022). Depth-averaged coupling of submerged granular deformation with fluid flow: An augmented HLL scheme. In Journal of Hydrology (Vol. 606, p. 127364). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127364
Soni, P., Tripathi, S., & Srivastava, R. (2022). Impact of renewed solar dimming on streamflow generation in monsoon dominated tropical river basins. In Journal of Hydro-environment Research (Vol. 41, pp. 12–24). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jher.2022.02.002
Soni, P., Tripathi, S., & Srivastava, R. (2022). Impact of renewed solar dimming on streamflow generation in monsoon dominated tropical river basins. In Journal of Hydro-environment Research (Vol. 41, pp. 12–24). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jher.2022.02.002
Vikram, D., Mittal, S., & Chakroborty, P. (2022). Stabilized finite element computations with a two-dimensional continuum model for disorderly traffic flow. In Computers & Fluids (Vol. 232, p. 105205). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2021.105205