Research & LABS AT CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, VNIT NAGPUR

The Civil Engineering Department is the oldest department in this institute right from the establishment of Government College of Engineering in Nagpur 1956.  The department strives to develop students into capable civil engineering graduates by imparting appropriate high-quality education in Civil Engineering so that they could be readily adapted by the service sector to meet the challenges faced by the Nation. The program strives for excellence in engineering education and is actively involved in research and consultancy. The faculty of the department are engaged in state-of-the art research and provide technical support through various R&D projects and consultancy to various organizations.

Laboratory Facilities

The Department has 17 well-equipped laboratories dedicated for carrying out teaching, research and consultancy in various disciplines of Civil Engineering. 

  1. Construction Technology and Management Laboratories
  2. Traffic & Transportation Engineering Laboratories
  3. Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories
  4. Water Resources Engineering Laboratories
  5. Environmental Engineering Laboratories

Construction Technology and Management

  1. Building materials
  2. Concrete technology
  3. Construction management
  4. Infrastructure project management

Research Highlights

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Environmental Engineering

  1. Fuzzy Analysis
  2. Reliability analysis and Surge analysis
  3. Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks
  4. Water and Wastewater Treatment
  5. Risk analysis
  6. Energy and Environment
  7. Air pollution 
  8. Solid waste management
  9. Bio-cementation
  10. Remote Sensing and GIS applications
  11. Resource recovery and reuse. 

Research Highlights

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  1. Tunnelling and Rock Mechanics
  2. Soil dynamics
  3. Deep Excavation
  4. Physical and Numerical modeling of geotechnical systems
  5. Characterization of geo-materials
  6. Coalescence of shallow foundations and anchor systems
  7. Simplified analytical solutions for foundation problems.
  8. Ground improvement using soil stabilization
  9. Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering
  10. Soft clay Ground Improvement
  11. Lightweight geomaterials
  12. Stone Columns
  13. Application of Geosynthetics in Civil Engineering
  14. Soil Dynamics, Soil amplification and Design Codes 
  15. Soil-Structure Interaction
  16. Performance Based Seismic Design 
  17. Machine Foundation

Transportation Engineering

  1. Traffic Engineering
  2. Capacity Studies
  3. Road Safety
  4. Surrogate Safety
  5. Pedestrian Safety
  6. Transport Infrastructure
  7. Transport Planning
  8. Intelligent Transport Systems
  9. Pavement Engineering
  10. Pavement Material Characterization
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WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING

  1. Open channel Hydraulics/Free surface Flow
  2. Ground water modelling and analysis
  3. Surface water management
  4. GIS and RS applications to water resources
  5. Water resources Management and techniques
  6. Reservoir operation and optimization
  7. Water Distribution Network studies
  8. Hydraulic Structures

Research Highlights

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Remote Sensing and GIS

  1. Seismotectonic framework analysis
  2. Remote Sensing and GIS applications in surface and groundwater water resources management,
  3.  Environment impacts
  4. Disaster and urban planning
  5. Global climate change

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