

Welcome to the Department of Civil Engineering. Established in 1959, it is one of the oldest departments in the country. Over the years the department has nurtured young minds to produce bright able civil engineers. The department has expertise in almost the entire spectrum of civil engineering. The department is very active in teaching, research, conducting conferences, workshops, short term seminars etc. The department has been constantly involved in a range of consultancy projects.
Programmes offered:
1. B.E. Civil Engineering
2. 2+2 ‘dual degree’ programme: B.E. Civil by BITS Pilani and B.E. (Civil and Infrastructure) (Honours) by RMIT
3. M.E. Civil – Water Resource Engineering.
4. M.E. Civil – Specialization in Infrastructure Engineering and Management
5. M.E. Civil – Specialization in Structural Engineering
6. M.E. Civil – Specialization in Transportation Engineering
7. Ph.D.

Ph.D. Topic - Civil Engineering
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manoj Kumar,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - The Study of Postbuckling Response, Failure and Strength of Natural Fiber Based Functionally Graded Composite Plates
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - CONCRETE (ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CEMENT COMPOSITES)
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Subhasis Pradhan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Assessment of resource recovery potential from faecal sludge and its sustainable management using a multi-criteria approach
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Ajit Pratap Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Investigating the Efficacy of Moist and Compound Curing on Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Inclusive Concrete
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Vijay Kakade,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Sarah Mariam Abraham,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Potential of Using Sandstone Waste as a Precursor for Geopolymerization.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Dipendu Bhunia,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Sayantan Chakraborty,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - PInvestigation on the Seismic Behaviour of Masonry Infill Walls Strengthened With Textile Reinforced Concrete
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Dipendu Bhunia,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Assessment of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), Modelling and Simulation
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shibani Khanra Jha,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Vijay Kakade,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Automatic detection of cracks and vegetation in the canal system using machine learning and assessment of canal water quality
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Singhal,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Rahul Dev Garg
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Study of Structural Behavior and Failure Characteristics of FRP-Concrete Composite Beams
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Structural Behavior of Concrete-Filled Double-Skin FRP-Steel Tubular Columns under Axial Compression
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Static and dynamic behaviour of shallow footing resting on waste tire chip reinforced soil
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Ravi Kant Mittal,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Nishant Roy,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Qualitative Gradation and Extraction of heavy metal from MSW City Compost of Indian cities using biodegradable chelating agents.
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Singhal,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Srinivas Rallapalli,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Buckling and Postbuckling Study of the CNT Reinforced Hybrid Laminated Composite Stiffened Shell Panels Subjected to Non-uniform In-Plane loading
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. S.N. Patel,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Rajesh Kumar,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Size-dependent Vibration, Response and Stability analyses of Microplates under Localized Mechanical and Thermal loads
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Rajesh Kumar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Dipendu Bhunia,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Subhasis Pradhan,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - State of the Art for Integrating the Infrastructure Management Techniques & Tools for its Application in Sustainable Urban Water Management System
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Rajiv Gupta,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Spatial Flood Dynamics Using Artificial Intelligence Based Image Classification for Integrated Urban Water Management System
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Rajiv Gupta,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Investigating the potential of corundum-blended engineered cementitious composites for pavement application
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. G Muthukumar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Experimental Investigation of Light Transmitting Self Compacting Concrete blocks
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Dipendu Bhunia,
Co. Supervisor -
Dr. Subhasis Pradhan,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Investigations on Behavior of Concrete Filled Stainless Steel Tubular (CFSST) Piles under the Integral Abutment Bridges
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Manoj Kumar,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Fabrication and Failure Characterization of Functionally-Graded Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for High Strain Rates and Elevated Temperatures
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Studies on mechanical performance of sintered flyash lightweight aggregate in concrete
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Sudhirkumar Barai,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Design Framework for Face Reinforced Tunnels in Difficult Ground Conditions
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Nishant Roy,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Construction materials
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Singhal,
Co. Supervisor -
Prof. Dipendu Bhunia,
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Mukund Lahoti,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Investigation of thermal performance of high volume fly ash and steel slag based hybrid fibre reinforced cementitious composite
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Mukund Lahoti,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Subhasis Pradhan,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - An Investigation on the Effects of Marble Dust in Concrete
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anshuman,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Artificial Intelligence Enabled Decision Support for Impact Assessment of Urbanization on Bengaluru lakes
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. Anupam Singhal,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Nonlinear Dynamic Instability and Dynamic Response of Composite Laminated Stiffened Plates Subjected to In-plane Harmonic Loadings
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Prof. S.N. Patel,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Topic - Mechanical and Thermal Performance of Electric Arc Furnace Slag-Fly Ash Blended alkali activated material
Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Mukund Lahoti,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

Ph.D. Supervisor -
Dr. Sayantan Chakraborty,
Co. Supervisor -
Ph.D. Status - Ongoing

ADVANCED STRUCTURAL ENGG.

HORIZONTAL ACTUATOR - 250 kN

CTM

UTM

ASCELARETED CARBONATION CHAMBER

AQUATER

DYNAMIC UTM

Hydrometer

SPT Apparatus

Casagrande Apparatus

CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY

Conrete LAB-2

Concrete LAB-3

Concrete LAB-1

TENSILE TESTING MACHINE

AUTOCLAVE

CTM

FREEZE THRAW CHAMBER

ACCELERATED CURING TANK

RCPT TEST

BRICK MAKING MACHINE

CTM machine 3000kn

Muffle furnace

Environmental Chamber

FLEXURE TESTING MACHINE

HUMIDITY CHAMBER

HOT AIR OVEN

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGG. LAB

Hot Air Oven

COD

IMHOFF CONE

PH METER

SPECTROPHOTOMETER

TURBIDITY METER _ BALANCE

FLUME HOOD

Rapid Sand filtration Process

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Digitla DO/pH Meter

Centrifuge

GEOTECHNICAL ENGG LAB

DIGITAL TRIXIAL TEST APP.

SIEVE SHAKER

DIRECT SHEAR TEST

DIGITAL DIREST SHEAR TEST

PERMEABILITY TEST

GETECHNICAL ENGG. LAB VIEW-2

MODEL FOOTING PLATE LOAD TEST

CONSOLIDATION TEST

TRIXIAL TEST APP.

DIRECT SHEAR TEST APP.

RELATIVE DENSITY APP.

UNCONFINED COMPRESSION TESTING APP

GIS LAB

GIS LAB-2

GIS LAB -3

HYD ENGG LAB

OPEN FLOW CHANNEL

TILTING FLUME APP.

HYDRAULIC JUMP

HYDRAULIC ENGGINEERING LAB -II

PIPE FRICTION APP.

Heleshaw Apparatus

V- NOTCH APP.

REYNOLDS NUMBER APP.

BASIC HYDRAULIC BENCH

OPEN FLOW CHANNEL VIEW -2

STOCKS LAW APP.

ORIFICE _ MOUTH PIECES APP.

FLOW THROUGH ORIFICE APP.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS LAB VIEW -2

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS LAB

PORTAL FRAME APP.

DEFLECTION OF TRUSS APP.

THREE HINGED ARCH

ULTRASONIC HOMOGENIZER

SHAKE TABLE

Umsymmetrical Bending Apparatus

SURVEYING- LAB

DGPS

ELECTRONIC THEODOLITE

THEODOLITE

TOTAL STATION

Tilting Level

Digital Planimeter

Prismatic compass

Levelling staff

Handheld GPS

Aluminium Tripod

Metric Chain (30 m length)

Metric Chain (20 m length)

Ranging Rod

Fibre Tape (100 m)

Arrow

Peg

Cross-staff

Optical square

TRANSPORTATION ENGG LAB

TRANSPORTATION ENGG.

T.P LAB

TRANSPORTATION ENGG LAB -II

TRANSPORTATION ENGG -II

IMPACT TEST

WATER BATH

DUCTILITY TEST

MARSHALL APP.

BITUMEN MIXING APP.

CBR TEST

CORE CUTTING DRILING MACHINE

MERLIN ROAD ROUGHNESS TEST APP.

BUMP INDICATOR

CBR APP.

AUTOMETIC STANDRAD PENETOMETER

RING _ BALL APP.

CENTRIFUGE EXTRACTOR

ASHFALT MIXER DENSITY METER

SKID RESISTOMETER

VISCOSITY BATH

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WHEEL TRACKING TESTER

🎉 Happy to Share Our Latest Publication! 🎉

🎉 🎓🚀 🎉 Warm Welcome to Dr. HimaBindu Maripini! 👩🏫✨🌏 🎉

🌊 Call for Junior Research Fellow (JRF) —Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus 🌿

Admission to the Ph.D Programme (Full-time and Part-time) in Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad Campuses of BITS Pilani for Second Semester, Academic Year 2025-26 is now open.

🎉 🎓🚀 BITS Pilani Launches Certification Course on Revit & CUBE with Techture🌏 🎉

🎉 🎓Certification Course on “Introduction to Revit and CUBE” – India’s first BIM-enabled construction management platform🌏 🎉

🎉 🎓 The Department of Civil Engineering proudly presents the academic journey and achievements of Dr. Sanchari Thakur.🌏 🎉

🎉 🎓 Begin in India, Research in Australia, Graduate with a Global PhD! 🌏 🎉

🎉 Heartiest Congratulations Mr. Ankit Singh Mehra 🎉

🎉 Heartiest Congratulations to Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh 🎉
🎉 Happy to Share Our Latest Publication! 🎉
23 October, 2025🎉 🎓🚀 🎉 Warm Welcome to Dr. HimaBindu Maripini! 👩🏫✨🌏 🎉
22 October, 2025🎉 🎓🚀 BITS Pilani Launches Certification Course on Revit & CUBE with Techture🌏 🎉
25 September, 2025🎉 🎓 Begin in India, Research in Australia, Graduate with a Global PhD! 🌏 🎉
2 September, 2025🎉 Heartiest Congratulations Mr. Ankit Singh Mehra 🎉
1 September, 2025🎉 Heartiest Congratulations to Prof. Shamsher Bahadur Singh 🎉
11 August, 2025🎉 Proud Moment for the Department of Civil Engineering! 🏗️
18 July, 2025𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
16 July, 2025🎉 Heartiest Congratulations! 🎉
4 July, 2025Welcome Dr. Md Rushdie Ibne Islam!🎉
20 June, 2025🎓 Heartfelt Congratulations To Mr Akshay Kumar! 🎉
18 June, 2025🎉7-day Global University Exposure program hosted by Azizi Developments🌟
6 June, 2025
ADVANCES IN SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS, MODELLING, AND INFRASTRUCTURE (ASMMI-2025)
Head of Department (HOD), Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Rajasthan, India 333 031.
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