IIT Roorkee prof awarded Satish Dhawan Award

Prof SK Ghosh from the Department of Civil Engineering has been awarded the Satish Dhawan Award by the Minister of Jal Shakti. The award carries a citation, a medal and a cash prize of INR 1 lakh. 

Satish Dhawan Award is one of the foremost awards given by the Indian Society of Remote Sensing to a working scientist or academician for contribution made in the area of remote sensing, GIS, image processing, GPS and technology capacity building. The award carries a citation, a medal and a cash prize of INR 1 lakh.

IIT Roorkee develops technique to use plastic bottles for mitigating quake damage 

Scientists at IIT Roorkee have developed a technique to use waste plastic bottles to mitigate earthquake damage. According to researchers at IIT Roorkee, if fibre from waste plastic bottles is mixed with soil in a particular ratio, it will help minimise damage during earthquakes by strengthening the soil of that area.  

According to Prof Satyendra Mittal, principal investigator of the project, the use of plastic fibres for soil reinforcement helps in “mitigation of the liquefaction phenomenon in embankments, slopes, man-made fills or other geotechnical structures”. 

During an earthquake, the soil where water levels are not too deep starts behaving like a liquid. This phenomenon is called liquefication. The researchers said PET fibres enhance the liquefaction resistance of fine sand.   

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