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Activities
Our Know-how and Capabilities
Proud of its past performance and knowing its future
responsibilities, CSMRS has armed itself with a team of about 150
dedicated engineers and scientists, many of them having been trained
abroad under various UNDP/NGI assisted programmes executed successfully
during last 2 decades. Equipped with the state of art equipment
and trained manpower, CSMRS can take up any challenging investigation
works in respect of dams, bridges, multistoreyed buildings, nuclear
and thermal power stations besides safety evaluation of existing
hydraulic and other civil engineering structures.
Our Achievements
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Investigations
CSMRS has undertaken geotechnical investigations for more than
1500 medium and major dams in the country in addition to foundation
characterisation for bridges, multistoreyed buildings, thermal
and nuclear power stations, off-shore structures etc.
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Consultancy
Provided consultancy to Central Government/State Governments/Public
Sector Undertakings in the fields of Geomechanical and Construction
Materials Characterization for various civil engineering structures
and diagnostic investigation of old structures.
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Research
Several basic and applied research problems stand completed
to CSMRS credit.
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Dissemination
of Information
CSMRS has served as data bank for the information pertaining
to its expertise by organising seminars, workshops, training
courses and publishing relevant literature.
Our Clients
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The Central Government
and State Govt. agencies and Public sector Undertakings responsible
for construction of multipurpose river valley projects form
our clients, though many major industrial complexes, multi-storeyed
buildings, thermal power stations, etc. are also recipients
of consultancy from CSMRS.
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CSMRS has been playing
a vital role in sharing knowledge with engineers involved in
planning, investigation, design and construction of projects
all over the country by holding national level workshops and
short- term courses under various UNDP, USAID, NGI and other
Institutional co-operation programmes.
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CSMRS renders assistance
to the Bureau of Indian Standards and Flyash Mission in standardization
in the relevant field of geomechanics, concrete technology and
construction materials.
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Advice is extended to
a number of Technical Advisory Committees for special and specific
problems of projects.
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Contribution of technical
papers at national and international levels.
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Assist universities and
other organisations in their programmes of teaching, etc.
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Apart from the above
at the basic level of testing and investigations, CSMRS trains
personnel from state governments and Projects.
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CSMRS is funding the
research activities of many universities, Institutes and state
governments in the area of related field through two committee
viz. Indian National Committee on Construction Materials and
Structures (INCCMS) and Indian National Committee on Geotechnical
Engineering (INCGE).
UNDP Assistance
Recognising the important
role being played by the CSMRS and the tasks ahead, the UNDP came
forward in a big way to update the facilities and imparted latest
know-how to the staff of the Research Station particularly in Soil
Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Soil Dynamics, Rockfill and Concrete
Technology. As an outcome of close interaction between the UNDP
experts and the staff of the Research Station, a number of microprocessor
based latest equipment have been acquired/installed in the Research
Station providing capabilities comparable with laboratories in the
developed countries.
A number of engineers &
scientists of the Research Station have received advanced training
at leading institutions of the world specially selected for dealing
with problems unique to River Valley projects contemplated/under
construction particularly in the problematic Himalayan region where
immense water potential exists.
Many world renowned experts
associated with CSMRS have high words of praise on the performance
of the Research Station in handling unique and challenging jobs.
CSMRS-NGI Institutional
Cooperation Programme
CSMRS, New Delhi and Norwegian
Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway have entered into Institutional
Co-operation Programme agreement in the field of “Investigation
of geological Hazards in Dam Reserviors for Safety of Downstream
Structures” in November 2002 for a period of 3 years. This
programme is funded by Norwegian Agency for development and C0-operation
(NORAD) for a sum of NOK 2.83 Million (1 NOK app. Equals 6 Indian
Rupees).
The funds allocated by NORAD for this programme are a component
of the billateral development Co-operation between India and Norway.
CSMRS has earlier successfully completeted the
following two projects under the Institutional Co-operation programme
with NGI, Oslo.
- Tunnelling Technology (1993-96)
- Environmental Geotchnology (1997-2000)
- Investigation of Geological Hazards in Dam reservoirs for Safety
of Downstream Structures (2002-2006)
Institutional Co-operation between CSMRS
and NGI (2006-2008) on “Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment
for Ageing Dams in India”
CSMRS has successfully completed the third Institutional co-operation
programme on ‘Investigation of Geological Hazards in Dam Reservoirs
for safety of Downstream Structures’ (2002 – 2006) in
April 2006. The objective of the project was to get acquainted with
the state-of-art methods for investigation and mitigation of hazards
in dam reservoirs and the structural safety of the existing dams.
The objectives of these projects were fully met and the concerned
authorities have appreciated the successful implementation of these
projects.
CSMRS and NGI, Oslo once again decided for entering
into collaboration agreement in the field of Safety Evaluation and
Risk Assessment for Ageing Dams in India. A Project proposal on
“Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment for Ageing Dams in
India” has been finalized.
The areas of co-operation of this project:
- Implementation of Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
and Event Tree Analysis (ETA) for assigning priority on remedial
measures.
- Development of a methodology for probabilistic risk assessment
of dams in India, including the impact of dam failure on downstream
elements at risk, and perform hazard and risk assessment.
- Assessment of present safety legislation, codes and guidelines
for dam safety in India.
- Stability analysis of main dam structures and reservoir rim.
- Instrumentation and performance based monitoring for evaluating
and reducing the risks associated with ageing dams.
- Evaluation and assessment of methods for rehabilitation and
strengthening of selected critical dams believed to require
immediate attention.
NGI’s experience in safety evaluation and risk assessment
of dams will be utilized for evaluating the conditions of the
Indian dams. Since CSMRS is already involved in the safety evaluation
of the existing dams, quality control and quality assurance of
many dams under construction, this Institutional Co-operation
programme will be extremely useful to the country as a whole.
It is planned to analysis three to four existing dams which are
to identified under this project.
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