Significant emphasis is given nowadays on exploring underground space- in the form of tunnels- for (i) fast commuting in urban areas, (ii) connectivity to remote areas under different weather conditions, (iii) military ...

Underground tunnels are an essential part of transportation and utility networks, and their vulnerability to earthquakes has significant socio-economic impacts. Tunnels have suffered substantial damage in past earthquakes, ...

Concrete structures, including buildings, bridges, pavements, and offshore structures, face a wide range of loading conditions, both static and cyclic. When subjected to fatigue loading, the response of concrete elements ...

Majorly reliant on petroleum products, the transportation sector accounts for 25% of the global energy demand and 23% of carbon dioxide emissions. Among all the modes of transportation, road vehicles are the primary sources ...

Soil erosion and sediment transport are natural processes primarily driven by water. However, excessive human interference through agriculture, urbanization, and the construction of water storage reservoirs has significantly ...

The work done in this thesis falls under the broad category of computational mechanics. This thesis addresses the computational challenge of high-dimensional regression and interpolation within the framework of a proper ...

The global air passenger demand will surpass the 10 billion mark by the end of 2040. India itself is poised to become the third largest aviation market and traffic generator by 2033, with a forecast of over 950 million ...

Cities worldwide are grappling with declining public transit usage, primarily due to insufficient spatial coverage of mass transit corridors in sprawling urban regions and inadequate first- and last-mile connectivity options ...

Regional analysis of hydrometeorological variables (e.g., evapotranspiration, precipitation), hydrological processes (e.g., runoff), and their extremes (e.g., drought, floods) is essential for various applications. The ...

Catchments are complex environmental systems, and they serve as the fundamental units for hydrological classification. They are self-organizing systems whose form, drainage network, ground and channel slopes, channel ...