Principal investigator/Leader for Major Research Projects/Missions:
* Nanotechnology for developing sustainable materials (CSIR Young scientist
Follow-up project) 2011-2016
* Engineering Sustainable Materials and Structures Action Plan II: Sustainability
through Nano-Technology and Bio-Mimetics (eNano-Tics) [XII Five Year Plan
Project with Budget: Rs 28 Crores] 2012-2017
* Coordinator for Mission Mode project on Development of fast, durable and energy
efficient mass housing schemes [Project with Budget: Rs 40 Crores] 2018-2020
(till September 2018)
* Coordinator for Mission Mode project on Technologies for Robust Structural Health
Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures and Conservations of Heritage Structures
[Project with Budget: Rs 50 Crores] 2018-2020 (from October 2018 -2020)
▪ Coordinator (R&D) – Niche Creating Project on Engineering of Large Floating
Offshore Structures for Renewable Energy Farming [Cost: Rs 19.8 Crores], 2020-
2023
▪ One of the coordinators for- establishing and in-charge of- the ‘National Facility for
Materials, Mechanics and Sensors’ (NaFaMMS) at CSIR-SERC
▪ Principal Investigator (Numerical)- Evaluation and management of longitudinal
force on substructure of railway bridges, Nationally important project for RDSO –
Indian Railways [Rs 7.8 Crores], 2018-2023
▪ Principal Investigator – Evaluation of capacity and performance of rock anchor bolt
for an underground defense project -L&T Infrastructure [Cost: 35 Lakhs], 2018-
2019
▪ Principal Investigator – Assessment of structural adequacy of selected spans of
major steel-concrete composite Bridges BR 210 and BR 231 in Dhanbad Division
of East Central Railway – Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. [Cost: 50 Lakhs], 2022-23
▪ Principal Investigator – Assessment of structural adequacy of selected superstructure
spans of RDSO Standard Composite Bridges – IRCON International Ltd.
[Cost: 60 Lakhs], 2022-23
▪ Principal Investigator – Health Assessment of identified spans of Kosi Bridge
through field investigations and numerical simulations- East Central Railway [Cost:
1.24 Crores], 2023-24
▪ Principal Investigator – Establishment of a Centre of Innovation & Manufacturing
Eco-system for Sensors (CIMES) in industrial IoT – Vertical-3: Smart Structure and
Structural Health Monitoring – Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
(MeiTY), Govt of India [Cost 58 Crorers], 2022-2027
▪ Principal Investigator – Health assessment of steel-concrete composite bridges
under futuristic loading in Kawta Division of Eastern Railway – [Cost: 200 Lakhs],
2024-25
▪ Principal Investigator – Integrity assessment of the pre-stressed Trunnion beams
of the spillway structure of Polavaram dam project through Acoustic Emission (AE)
and advanced non-destructive evaluation (NDE) Techniques -Central Water
Commission [Cost: 8 Lakhs], 2021-2022