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Prof. Dipendu Bhunia

Professor & Head of Department, Department of Civil Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Concrete Technology, Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Performance Based Seismic Design, Sustainable Construction Materials
Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

PROJECT

  • Completed undergraduate Capstone project entitled "AI-Based Urban Building Risk and Energy Efficiency Assessment System”, CUSP Capstone Programme, New York University USA & BITS Pilani India, PI: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia, Co-PI: Dr Mukund Lahoti from BITS Pilani & Dr Rishabh Chauhan from NYU, 01.08.2025 – 31.05.2026.
  • Ongoing project entitled "Exploring the Application of an Organic Mechanoluminescent Compound in Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring”, BITS-LaTrobe Collaborative Research Program (ASCRIN), PI from BITS Pilani: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia, PI from LaTrobe: Dr. Vipul Patel, 01.08.2025 to till date.
  • Received and completed research & consultancy project entitled "Design Optimization of Composite Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Pressure Vessel”, Siemens Energy IN Ltd, Vadodara, PIs: Prof Subhasis Pradhan, Prof Rajesh Kumar, Prof Dipendu Bhunia, Prof S N Patel from Civil Engg and Prof Gaurav Watts, Prof Aneesh A. M. from Mechanical Engg, Pilani, Rs 22,89,200/-, March 2025 –February 2026.
  • Completed undergraduate project entitled "Structural Health Monitoring Based on Aggregation Induced Emission (AIE) active mechanoluminescence Organic Material”, SPARKLE Programme, BITS Pilani, PI: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia, 2024 – 2026, Rs 2,00,000/-.
  • Ongoing project entitled "Investigating the potential of using construction and demolition wastes as a raw material for the development of sustainable binder”, BITS-RMIT Collaborative Research Program, PI from BITS Pilani: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia, PI from RMIT: Prof. Guomin (Kevin) Zhang, 26.07.2024 to till date.
  • Completed entitled "Waste Management of Generated Sludge from Indian Steel and Steel Related Plants: A Sustainable Business Model" under Ministry of Steel, Government of India, as Co-Principal Investigator, Prof. Srikanta Routroy as Principal Investigator and Prof. Anupam Singhal as Co-Principal Investigator, Rs. 38,04,600/-, 20.11. 2018 – 31.03.2022.
  • Completed project entitled "Effect of Partial replacement of cement with marble slurry on concrete", DST-SERB, 01.08.2014-31.03.2018, 28.38 lakhs, PI: Dr. Anshuman, Co-PI: Dr. Dipendu Bhunia
  • Completed the project entitled "Investigation of the Effect of Carbonation on the Properties of Concrete" received from from DST, New Delhi Rupees 34 Lakhs, as a Principal Investigator and Prof. S.B.Singh (Co-principal Investigator), 30.07.2012 to 28.02.2016.
  • Completed the project entitled "Investigation into the Behavior of Coupling Beam" under the category of Research Initiation Grant of Rupees 2 Lakhs received from BITS, Pilani as a Principal Investigator and Prof. S.B.Singh (Co-principal Investigator) on 14.12.2011 to 15.12.2013.