Research and Development

Research Thrust Areas

S. No.
Thrust Area Faculty Description

1.

Ground Improvement and Slope Stability

  • Prof. (Dr.) Ashok Kumar Gupta
  • Mr. Niraj Parihar
  • Soil Nailing and Helical Soil Nailing.
  • Slope Stability Analysis and Mitigation
  • Stone Columns for Ground Improvement
  • Soil Stabilization using Leather Waste

2.

Municipal Solid Waste Management and Air Quality Monitoring

  • Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Kumar
  • Dr. Rishi Rana
  • Renewable Energy Sources
  • Assessment of Methane Potential from different types of Biodegradable Waste
  • Environmental Monitoring and Pollution

3.

Construction Materials and Structural Dynamics

  • Dr. Saurav
  • Dr. Tanmay Gupta
  • Dr. Amardeep
  • Enhancing the Strength Properties of Recycled Aggregate Concrete
  • Innovative Solution to Prevent the Dampness in Concrete Structure
  • Analysis of Special Geometrical Layout for Bridges
  • Seismic Behaviour of Concrete Bridges
  • Low–Cost Material Utilization in Construction Blocks
Research Projects/Grants (Ongoing and Completed)
S. No. Project Coordinator/ Principal Investigator(s) Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Grant (in Lakhs)

1.

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta (PI) ,  Dr. Tanmay Gupta (C0-PI), Dr. Saurabh Rawat (Co-PI)

Geological Hazards Mitigation using Stone Concrete Block Retaining Wall and Helical Soil Nailing

District Disaster Management Authority, Solan, H.P

2021-ongoing

25

2.

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta (PI) & Prof. Vivek Sehgal (CO-PI)

Intelligent Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Structures

Directorate of Innovation, Research and Development (DRID)

2021-ongoing

38

3.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar (PI)

Dr Garlapati Vijay Kumar (Co-PI)

Dr. Ashish Kumar (Co-PI)

Production and Phyco-upgradation of Biogas from pine straw co-digested with food waste.

Directorate of Innovation, Research and Development (DRID)

2023-ongoing

0.5

4.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar (PI)

Dr. Ashish Kumar (Co-PI)

Pine Needles conversion to Biofuels for Rural Empowerment

Directorate of Innovation, Research and Development (DRID)

2022 24

7

5

Dr. Sudhir Kumar (PI)

Dr. Ashish Kumar (Co-PI)

Biogas Production for Sustainable Energy Generation in Rural HP using one Stage Portable Digester

H.P. Council for Science, Technology and Environment, HIMCOSTE

2016-2018

7.87

6

Dr. Ashish Kumar (Nodal Officer)

Chief Minister’s Startup/Innovation Projects/New Industries Scheme

Department of Industries, H.P.

2017- ongoing

87.53

7

Dr. Ashish Kumar (PI)

Effect of Steam–wise Spacing of Circular Bridge Piers on Flow characteristics and local scour

Department of Science and Technology (DST)

2013-2016

9.9

8

Dr. Sudhir Kumar (PI)

Dr. Ashish Kumar (Co-PI)

Bioconversion of JUIT Mess Waste to Biogas for the Purpose of Lighting and Power Generation

Jaypee Research Fund

2010-2011

0.95

 

Patents
S No Patent No. and Date of Grant Application No. Title Department and Inventors

1.

Granted:

12.01.23

124895/319983-001

CBR No.: 14079

Movable Biogas Reactor

Civil Engineering; Biotechnology& Bioinformatics

Inventors

Mr Karam Dass, Ankur Choudhary, Dr. Ashish Kumar, Dr. Sudhir Kumar

2.

Published:

18-04-2023

202311028088

An Apparatus for testing of a helical soil nail 

Civil Engineering

Inventors

Dr. Saurabh Rawat, Dr.  Ashok Kumar Gupta, Dr. Pankaj Sharma

3.

Published:

07.06.2023

202311038969

Landslide Prediction System Using IOT and Machine Learning

Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering

Inventors

Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta, Dr. Vivek Kumar Sehgal, Dr. Tanmay Gupta and Mr. Arush Kaushal

4.

Published:

26.05.2023

202311029769

Use of waste plastic glass as an anti – glare component to avoid road accidents

Civil Engineering, CSE, ECE and BT/BI

Inventors

Archit Kaushal, Shruti Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Aman Sharma, Saurabh Rawat

5.

Published:

06.09.2024

202311014587

Microfine slag amended blue leather waste ash as a novel material of treating expansive soils

Civil Engineering

Inventors

Dr.  Niraj Singh Parihar, Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta

6.

Published:

09.01.2026

202511115531

A System and a Method to removeWater Vapour from Biogas inLow-cost Reactors

Civil Engineering; Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
Inventors

Mr Karam Dass, Dr. Ashish Kumar, Dr. Sudhir Kumar

7.

Published:

28-02-2025

202511013466

A System and a method to Predict Soil Liquefaction Risk using Large Language Model

Civil Engineering

Inventors

Achyut Tiwari, Ashok Kumar Gupta, Saurabh Rawat

8.

Published:

29-12-2023

202311079226

Unified Pavement Condition Assessment System

Civil Engineering

Inventors

Ashok Kumar Gupta, Achyut Tiwari

9.

Published:

10-05-2024

202411032279

Utilization of Biogas Spent Slurry as binder for Pine Needles Biofuel briquettes/Pellets

Civil Engineering; Biotechnology& Bioinformatics

Inventors

Anup Kumar Sinha, Ashish Kumar, Sudhir Kumar

9

Granted: 24-02-2026

202311029769

 

Grant No 581461

Method of fabrication and arrangement of anti-glare glass for avoiding accidents of road

Civil Engineering; Biotechnology& Bioinformatics: Computer Science and Engineering: ECE

Inventors

Archit Kaushal, Shruti Jain, Sudhir Kumar, Aman Sharma, Saurabh Rawat

 

Ph.D. STUDENT DETAILS

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING,

JUIT Waknaghat

 

S.No. Enrollment No. Name of Scholars Broad Research Area Supervisor Status

COMPLETED

1

126602

Saurabh Rawat

Testing and Modelling of Soil Nailed Slopes

Prof Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

2

146601

Rishi Rana

Municipal Solid Waste Characterization and Analysis in Tri-City

Prof. Rajiv Ganguly & Prof.

Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

3

126601

Saurav

Experimental Studies of Strength and Durability Analysis of Concrete Incorporating Ultrafine Slag

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

 

4

 

166604

 

Anchal Sharma

Municipal solid waste characterization and analysis in Himachal Pradesh

Prof. Rajiv Ganguly & Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

 

Awarded

 

5

 

166605

 

Aakash Gupta

Prioritization of maintenance management decisions for rural road network in HimachalPradesh

Prof. Ashok Kumar

Gupta & Prof. Ashish Kumar

 

Awarded

6

166603

Disha Thakur

Characterization and settlement analysis of Municipal

Solid waste

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

&Prof.

Rajiv Ganguly

Awarded

7

176605

Ankur Choudhary

Bio-gas production for sustainable energy generation in rural Himachal Pradesh using one-stage portable digester

Prof. Ashish Kumar & Prof. Sudhir Kumar

Awarded

8

166610

Aditya Kumar Tiwary

Post fire exposure behaviorof circular concrete field steel tube column under axial loading

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

9

166606

Ankit Thakur

Ground improvement using encased stone columns

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta& Dr. Saurabh Rawat

Awarded

10

176606

Pankaj Sharma

Behavior of Helical Soil Nails: An experimental and theoretical study

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta & Dr. Saurabh Rawat

Awarded

11

186605

Prachi Vasistha

Water quality determination and modelling of natural lakes

Prof. Rajiv Ganguly

Awarded

12

166607

Niraj Singh Parihar

Stabilization of expansive soil using leather industry waste ash

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

13

186602

Sudheer Kumar Jala

Performance of  Hybrid confined Stone columns in loose ash fills; Experimental and numerical Investigation

Dr. Saurabh Rawat &Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

 

14

176602

PreetpalSingh Rihal

Use of MSW soil in pavement construction

Dr.Amardeep&Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

Awarded

15

176603

Amanpreet Tangri

Use of flexible facing for soil nail walls

Dr.Saurabh Rawat

Awarded

ON-GOING

 

16

 

196603

 

Abhishek Thakur

Structural Health Monitoring by Using Carbon Nano tubes

 

Dr.Saurav

 

Thesis Submitted

(Part-time)

17

206601

Akash Bhardwaj

Assessing tourism sustainability for Shimla using sustainable tourism benchmarking tool and ARCGIS

Prof.Ashok Kumar Gupta

On-going

(Part-time, Internal)

18

206602

Aishwarya Thakur

Corrosion protection in RCC

Dr.Saurav

On-going

(Part-time)

19

206610

Pradeep Kuhar

Utilization of different additives in construction of cool pavements

Dr. Amardeep

On-going

(Part-time)

20

206611

Manoj Kumar Poonia

Sustainable construction of green highways

Dr. Amardeep

On-going

(Part-time)

21

216602

Rohit Sharma

Experimental investigation of stone concrete block

Dr. Tanmay Gupta & Prof. Ashish Kumar

On–going

(Part-time)

22

216607

Chandra Pal Gautam

Structural Health Monitoring Using

AI and ML

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta

On–going

(Part-time, Internal)

23

226603

Akshat Sharma

Computer Application in Identification of Pot Holes and Characterization of Modified Bitumen Having Different Addictives

Dr.Amardeep& Dr. Yugal Kumar

On–going

(Full-time)

24

226604

Nikita Raheja

Soil stabilization through lime and applications of AL and ML in soil

Prof. Ashok Kumar Gupta & Dr. Kushal Kunwar

On–going

(Part-time)

25

236602

Manish

Performance measurement of structure system after natural disaster

Dr. Tanmay Gupta & Dr. Vikas Bhagel

On–going

(Full-time)

26

246601

Amreen Khatun

Effectiveness of structural walls in non-planar orientation on earthquake resistance of residential buildings

Dr. Sugandha Singh, Dr. Nishant Jain, Prof Ashish and Dr Neelkanth

On–going

(Full-time)

27

246602

Manisha Thakur

Development of technology for continous prediction of methane using lignocellulosic biomass

Prof. Ashish Kumar & Prof. Sudhir Kumar

On–going

(Full-time)

28

246603

Kannan Thakur

Biostabilization of slopes

Dr. Niraj Singh Parihar & Prof. Hemant Sood

On–going

(Full-time)

29

246604

Richa Sharma

Removal of emerging pollutants from various waste water sources using Bio-remediation.

Dr. Rishi Rana & Dr. Raj Kumar

On–going

(Full-time)

30

256601

Gokarna Awasthi

Development and Performance Evaluation of Pine Needle Biochar

Modified Recycled Aggregate Concrete.

Dr. Kauhsal Kumar & Dr. Ashok Kumar Nadda

On–going

(Full-time)

             

 

MTECH PROJECTS

S.No Roll No Name Title Supervisor(s)

1

245024001

 

Aditya Sharma

Non-linear static analysis of cable-stayed bridge using Staad Pro

Dr Tanmay Gupta

2

245024002

Anshul Sharma

Experimental and Numerical study of Continuously Reinforcement Concrete Pavement

Dr Saurav

3

245024003

 

Piyush Chauhan

A study on the carbon negative biochar  integration in cement & concrete

Mr. Chandra Pal Gautam and Dr. Ashok Kumar Gupta

4

245022001

Sushant Sharma

Shear lag analysis in simply supported composite Bridge girder during construction stages

Dr. Kaushal Kumar and Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Kumar 

5

245023001

Ashutosh Vohra

Assessment of climate change effect on Power Management and Sediment Management in Himalayan Run-of-River Projects

Dr. Kaushal Kumar, Dr. Saurav and Dr. Sibatosh Debnath (External)

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