Honours / Appointments

Technology Commercialisation

Prof. Vikram Gadre (Department of Electrical Engineering) has been selected for the Young Engineer Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE), for the year 2001.

Prof. Dulal Panda (Bhupat Jyoti Mehta School of Bio-sciences and Bio-Engineering) has received the Fogarty International Research Award.

Prof. A. K. Singh (Department of Chemistry) has been appointed as Director, Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat for a period of 6 years.

Commercial Success for SCFE Technology developed at IITB
A world-class, commercial scale Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SCFE) plant based on know-how and technology developed by IIT Bombay, has been successfully set up for M/s. Sami Labs Limited, Bangalore. The SCFE plant has been supplied on a turnkey basis, by M/s. Deven Supercriticals Pvt. Ltd., (DSPL) Pune, IIT Bombay’s Industrial Partner in this venture and the sole licensee of SCFE  technology.

Technology Transfer

Structural Integrity Testing and Analysis Centre

Transfer of GRAM++ Technology:
GRAM++ is an indigenous Geographic Information System (GIS) software developed at CSRE, IIT Bombay with financial support from Department of Science and Technology, and assisted by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
        As an application of this Technology, Government of Madhya Pradesh and CSRE have developed GRAM Drishti, a user-friendly desktop tool containing several layers of information, such as village boundaries, roads, drainage network, canal network, and locational data. This software can be used by any department of the district administration by linking the databases with the map features. A simple query interface is provided for monitoring the development at the village level and to ensure Convergence of Services by bringing various resources together for a target development activity.
        Users can cluster the villages into groups based on their own development plans and targets and work at the group level.
        Using the indigenous GIS mapping toolkit {Library of Mapping Components (LMC)} as core, a user-friendly interface was built by M/s Trident Cellnet Technologies for the requirements of the Government of Madhya Pradesh. GRAM Drishti is one of the first such applications for integrated rural development. Two other utilities to edit and update the existing digital maps are also provided.
        The Government of Madhya Pradesh will be distributing the GRAM Drishti package, and district-wise spatial database to district planners and administrators.

For more information please contact Dr. P. Venkatachalam, CSRE

A large-scale component testing facility, Structural Integrity Testing and Analysis Centre (SITAC) has been installed and commissioned at Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Bombay, supported by funding from the Department of Atomic Energy to the tune of Rs 1.2 crores.
       This facility has a high loading capacity (of 2 x 750 KN) along with appropriate servohydraulic actuators and valves. The system has advanced control features along with state-of-the-art Data Acquisition Systems and has a 10 ton crane attachment for material handling, complete with all earthquake resistant features.
       SITAC facility could be used for testing of large pipes, elbows and other heavy built-up units and components for railways, ONGC, automobile sector, aerospace etc. Various fatigue/fracture studies, data acquisition and recording upto 96 channels can be done using this facility.

For more information please contact Prof. P. Vasudevan, Mechanical Engineering Department.

SUDARSHAN: The National Geotechnical Centrifuge

Established recently at IIT Bombay, Sudarshan is a very large-size, state-of-the-art, national geotechnical centrifuge facility. Sponsored jointly by the Department of Science and Technology, Defence Research & Development Organisation and Ministry of Human Resource Development, it has been fabricated and erected indigenously.
With a platform of radius 4.5m, it can carry a payload of 2.5 tons at 100g, and is capable of attaining 200g centrifugal force in a few minutes. Of a beam type configuration, the centrifuge allows the testing of large size models; for example, of layered and non- homogene-ous soils. Further, extensive instrument-ation of the setup is also possible. This minimizes errors associated with smaller centrifuges and permits additional payloads as would be needed in an earthquake simulator. Possible applications of the facility include studies on Soil and Civil Structure interactions, Dams and Embarkments,

Offshore Structures, Environmental Geotechniques, Earthquakes and Vibrations, etc.
       Implementing this project indigenously has resulted in considerable cost savings and has led to the development of manufacturing expertise of a number of partner Indian industrial organizations – the principal company being M/s MECON. The objectives of establishing the facility are:
• To create a state-of-the-art geotechnical centrifuge for carrying out model studies under simulated condition
• To make available the facility to other educational and research institutions and user agencies for advanced research and modeling of civil structures
• To undertake basic and applied in-house research, sponsored research and indus trial consultancy
• To train manpower and disseminate knowledge of techniques in model preparation.
       The faculties associated with this project are Profs. V.S. Chandrasekaran, G. Venkatachalam, D.M. Dewaikar, J.N.Mandal, D.N.Singh & B.V.S. Viswanadham of the Civil Engineering Department. Currently work is underway on the simulation of behaviour of sheet pile walls for Visakhapatnam Port Trust. The IIT Bombay team is looking ahead to executing national and international geotechnical research programs.

For more details please contact Prof. V.S. Chandrasekaran, Civil Engineering Department.

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