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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.

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Latest News & Announcements


  • 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.
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi delivered lecture talk entitled "Atmospheric Aerosol Measurements: India Perspective" in National Space Science Symposium, Dibrugargh on February 1, 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. D.C. Rai delivered lecture talk entitled "Masonry Research at IIT Kanpur" at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati on March 21, 2014.
  • 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. S.N. Tripathi is fundedresearch project entitled "Building a Novel System for Soot: Measurement, Toxicity Assessment and Source Identification" funded by MHRD, India.
  • Visit PG admission section to see the list of selected M.Tech. and M.S.R. candidates in the last round of admissions.
  • Prof. Sachchida Nand Tripathi (Civil Engg.) awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences.
  • Dr. Sudib Kumar Mishra (CE), has been selected for the INAE Young Engineer Award of 2016
  • Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has become the member of Editorial Review Board in International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2018).
  • 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. SachchidaNand Tripathi awarded 2018 UP Ratna Award, Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Presentation: Welcome to New PG students 2018-19.
  • Dr. Tarun Gupta, has been selected for the INAE Innovator Entrepreneur Award 2018.
  • Mr. Saifi Izhar (PhD student) has been awarded with Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the international conference AJM 2018 Xian.
  • STudent Enrichment Program (STEP) – An initiative to facilitate students’ travel
  • PG admission notice 2018-19, 2nd Semester and 2019-20, 1st semester.
  • Dr. Salil Goel has been selected for the Young Geospatial Scientist 2018 award and the Rachapudi Kamakshi Memorial Gold Medal.
  • Mr. Sunil Nishad received Merit Award - 2018 for his relentless service to the users of the Hydraulics Laboratory.
  • Prof. Priyanka Ghosh has been invited as a member of Editorial Board of Indian Geotechnical Journal (2019)
  • Prof. Nihar Ranjan Patra has been invited as a member of Editorial Board of Indian Geotechnical Journal (2019).
  • Prof. P. Bose has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2019.
  • Prof. B. Nagarajan has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2019.
  • PG admission notice 2019-20, 2nd Semester
  • Dr. Gaurav Tiwari has been awarded IGS-Prof. Leonard’s Annual Award for the year 2018 for his Ph.D Thesis.
  • 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. Pranamesh Chakraborty is serving as one of the guest editors in the Special Issue "Deep Learning in Transportation" in the BDAT journal.
  • Prof. Sachchida Tripathi has been appointed as a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Science and Technology Letters.
  • Prof. Rajesh Srivastava has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2020.
  • Prof. Partha Chakroborty has been chosen as the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2020.
  • Prof. Sachchidanand Tripathi has been elected as the Fellow of Indian National Science Academy.
  • New programme DIIT program in three broad areas: (i) Geodesy (ii) Navigation and Mapping and (iii) Remote Sensing and GIS.
  • Prof. Sachchidanand Tripathi has received the prestigious J.C. Bose Fellowship from SERB, DST.
  • PhD student Mr Akshat Verma received a certificate of merit from American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020 virtual meeting.

Recent Publications


  • Drs. Tarun Gupta and S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Source Apportionment for Water Soluble Organic Matter of Submicron Aerosol: A Comparison between Foggy and Nonfoggy Episodes" published in Aerosol and Air Quality Research, doi: 10.4209/aaqr. 2013.10.0319..
  • Dr. Sarvesh Chandra and co-workers have published the paper "New Approach to the Design of Tunnels in Squeezing Ground" published in International Journal Of Geomechanics, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 110-117, 2014.
  • Dr. Saumyen Guha and co-workers have published the paper "Kinetics of Biotransformation of Chlorpyrifos in Aqueous and Soil Slurry Environments" published in Water Research, Vol. 51, pp. 73-85, 2014).
  • Dr. Bharat Lohani and co-workers have published the paper "Development and Comparison of Aerial Photograph Aided Visualization Pipelines for LiDAR Datasets" published in International Journal of Digital Earth, doi: 10.1080/17538947.2014.897386
  • Dr. S.K. Mishra and co-workers have published the paper "Simulation of Chemical Reactions Induced by Droplet in a Phase Separating Media Using Lattice Boltzmann-Kinetic Monte-Carlo Framework" published in Computers & Fluids, Vol. 89, pp. 133-142, 2014.
  • Dr. S.K. Mishra and co-workers have published the paper "Performance Assessment of Buildings Isolated by Shape-Memory -Alloy Rubber Bearing: Comparison with Elastomeric Bearing under Near-Fault Earthquakes" published in Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 449-465, 2014.
  • Dr. Samit Ray Chaudhuri and co-workers have published the paper "Finite Element Model Development, Validation, and Probabilistic Seismic Performance Evaluation of Vincent Thomas Suspension Bridge" published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, doi: 10.1080/15732479.2013.863360).
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Primary and Secondary Aerosols from an Urban Site (Kanpur) in the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impact on CCN, CN Concentrations and Optical Properties" published in Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 89, pp. 655-663, 2014.
  • Dr. Rajesh Sathiyamoorthy and co-workers have published the paper "Numerical Simulation of Geogrid-Reinforced Soil Barriers Subjected toDifferential Settlements" published in ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000405.
  • Dr. S.K. Chakrabarti and co-workers have published the paper "A Study on the Structural Response of a PSC Inner Containment Dome
  • Dr. S.K. Mishra and co-workers have published the paper "Robust Optimum Design of Base Isolation System in Seismic Vibration Control of Structures under Uncertain Bounded System Parameters" published in Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 786-800, 2014.
  • Dr. D.C. Rai and co-workers have published the paper "Suitability of Half-Scale Burnt Clay Bricks for Shake Table Tests on Masonry Walls" published in ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 644-657, 2014.
  • Dr. Samit Ray Chaudhuri and co-workers have published the paper "Seismic Vulnerability of Skew Bridges under Bi-directional Ground Motions" published in Engineering Structures, Vol. 71, pp. 150-160, 2014.
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Latitudinal Variation of Aerosol Properties from Indo-Gangetic Plain to Central Himalayan Foothills during TIGERZ campaign" published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 119, No. 8, pp. 4750-4769, 2014.
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Effect of Water Vapour on the Determination of Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect Based on the AERONET Fluxes" published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 6103-6110, 2014.
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Sub-Micron Particle Number Size Distributions Characteristics at an Urban Location, Kanpur, in the Indo-Gangetic Plain" published in Atmospheric Research, Vol. 147-148, pp. 121-132, 2014.
  • Dr. S.N. Tripathi and co-workers have published the paper "Note: Revisited Modeling of Titan's Middle Atmosphere Electrical Conductivity" published in Icarus, Vol. 238, pp. 230-234, 2014).
  • Dr. Vinod Vasudevan and co-workers have published the paper "Impacts of Energy Regulations and Vehicular Technologies on Fuel Tax Revenues" published in ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000184).
  • C. Chaudhuri, and R. Srivastava (2017). A novel approach for statistical downscaling of future precipitation over the Indo-Gangetic Basin, Journal of Hydrology, 547, 21-38
  • Chakraborty, S. and S. Ray-Chaudhuri, (2017), "Energy Transfer to High Frequency Modes of a Building due to Sudden Change In Stiffness at its Base", ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics (Accepted).
  • Gur, Sourav, George N. Frantziskonis, and Sudib K. Mishra. "Thermally modulated shape memory alloy friction pendulum (tmSMA‐FP) for substantial near‐fault earthquake structure protection." Structural Control and Health Monitoring 24.11 (2017): e2021.
  • S. Goel, A. Kealy, Gikas, V., G. Retscher, C. Toth, D. Brzezinska, and B. Lohani, Cooperative Localization of UAVs using GNSS, MEMS Inertial and UWB Sensors, ASCE Journal of Surveying Engineering, vol 143, Issue 4, 2017.
  • Izhar, Saifi, Prashant Rajput, and Tarun Gupta. "Variation of particle number and mass concentration and associated mass deposition during Diwali festival." Urban climate 24 (2018): 1027-1036.
  • Vijayasri, T., Raychowdhury, P., and Patra, N. R. (2018). " Dynamic Behavior of a Geotextile-Reinforced Pond Ash Embankment", Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2018.1483848.
  • Nainegali, L. S., Basudhar, P. K. and Ghosh, P. (2018) "Interference of strip footings resting on non-linearly elastic foundation bed: a finite element analysis". Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp 77-82.
  • Sisodiya, M., and Das, A. (2018). “Influence of Lode angle-dependent failure criteria on shear localization analysis in sand.” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 42(8), 979–998.
  • Singh, P. R. and Rai, D. C. (2018). “Effect of piped water cooling on thermal stress in mass concrete at early ages,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ,ASCE, vol. 144, no. 3, 04017183.
  • Trent, M, R. Dreibelbis, A. Bir, S.N. Tripathi et al., 2018, Access to household water quality information leads to safer water: a cluster randomized controlled trial in India, Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00035, 2018.
  • Pahar, G. and Dhar, A. "On Modelling of MPS-based Multiphase Fluid Flow with Low Density Ratios" International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 87(10), 529-542, 2018.
  • Kolay, C., Ricles, J. M., Marullo, T. M., Al-Subaihawi, S., and Quiel, S. E. “Computational Challenges in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of Tall Buildings under Multiple Natural Hazards”. In: Key Engineering Materials 763 (2018), pp. 566–575
  • Esna Ashari, S., A. Das, and G. Buscarnera. "Model-Based Assessment of the Effect of Surface Area Growth on the Permeability of Granular Rocks." Journal of Engineering Mechanics 144.5 (2018): 04018023.
  • Rajesh, S. and Khan, V. 2018. Characterisation of water sortion and retention behaviour of partially saturated GCLs using vapor equilibrium and filter paper methods, 157, 177-188. Applied Clay Science.
  • Goel, S., Kealy, A. and Lohani, B. 2018. Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Low-Cost Cooperative UAV Localization Network Prototype, 7(4), 42. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. DOI: 10.3390/jsan7040042
  • Pandey D. K., and Mishra S. K., 2019. Moving orifice Circular Liquid Column Damper for Controlling Torsionally Coupled Vibrations, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 82,357-374.
  • Willett, W., ... Chaudhary, A. et al., 2019. Our food in the Anthropocene: The EAT-Lancet commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Lancet.
  • Soni, P., Srivastava, R., and Tripathi, S. 2019. Implication of data uncertainty in the detection of surface radiation trends and observational evidence of renewed solar dimming over India. Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
  • Das, S.K. and Das, A., 2019. Influence of quasi-static loading rates on crushable granular materials: A DEM analysis, Powder Technology, 344, 393-403.
  • Siyu, Z, S.N. Tripathi et al., 2019. Intensive allochthonous inputs along the Ganges River and their effect on microbial community composition and dynamics, Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports, 21(1), 182-196.
  • Pandey, B.K., and Rajesh, S. 2019. Enhanced engineering characteristics of soils by electro-osmotic treatment: An overview. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Springer, 37(6), 4649-4673.
  • Ganesh, R., and Rajesh, S. 2020. Analytical solution to estimate the point of application of resultant passive earth thrust against unsaturated retaining structures. Geomechanics and Geoengineering, Taylor and Francis (online)
  • Roy, S. and Rajesh, S. 2020. Simplified model to predict features of soil water retention curve accounting for stress state conditions. International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, 20(3), 04019191.
  • Roy, S. and Rajesh, S. 2020. The coupled effect of suction and net stress on the air permeability of compacted soils. Geotechnique Letters, ICE Publishers, 10(1), 1-7.
  • Kokane, A., Sawant, V. A., and Sahoo, J. P. (2020). “Seismic stability analysis of nailed vertical cut using modified pseudo-dynamic method.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 137, 106294, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2020.106294.
  • Ganesh, R., and Sahoo, J. P. (2020). “Coupled bearing capacity factor for strip foundations on cohesive-frictional soil slopes under static and seismic conditions.” International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, 20(11): 04020202, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001851.
  • Ganesh, R., and Sahoo, J. P. (2020). “Seismic stability of obliquely loaded circular plate anchors.” Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, 217(1): 107856 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107856.

Events/Seminar Corner


Featured Alumni


  • Mr. Ram Prawesh Thakur (BT/CE/1983)

  • Mr. Kailash Chandra Joshi (BT/CE/1990)

  • Dr. Abdul Qayum (BT/CE/2008)

  • Mr. Ajai Sulekh (BT/CE/1988)

  • Mr. Vipin Pathak (BT/CE/2006)

  • Mr. Saroj Kumar Jha (BT/CE/86)

  • Mr. Yadupati Singhania (BT/CE/1977)

  • Dr. Devendra Shukla (BT/CE/1967)

  • Mr. Prabhat Singh (BT/CE/1980)

  • Late Mr. Satyendra Kumar Dubey (BT/CE/1994)

  • Dr. Udai Pratap Singh (BT/CE/1972)

  • Mr. Pawan Kumar (BT/CE/69)

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