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

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Research
  Several basic and applied research problems stand completed to CSMRS credit.
  

• 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

• 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.
  

• 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.

• 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.
  

• Advice is extended to a number of Technical Advisory Committees for special and specific problems of projects.
  

• Contribution of technical papers at national and international levels.
  

• Assist universities and other organisations in their programmes of teaching, etc.
  

• Apart from the above at the basic level of testing and investigations, CSMRS trains personnel from state governments and Projects.
  

• 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)

The benefits from the previous two projects are presented below:

• Technology Transfer in the area of geotechnical Engineering
  
  
• Introduction of Norwegian Method of Tunnelling (NMT) to Himalayan Hydro projects in India (Nathpa Jhakri Project)
  
  
• Introduction of Environmental friendly Engg. Practices to Water Resources Development and other Infrastructure Projects.
  
  
• Tranning of CSMRS engineers in Norway and one the job training at Indian Projects.
  
  
• Introduction of Fiber Reinforced Shotcrete in Indian Projects.
  
  
• Building Indian competence for controlling Landslides.
  
  
• Improved Library and Laboratory facilities on Environmentally Sustainable Development Project
  
  
• Dissemination of Information to State Govts. And Private sector

Investigation of geological Hazards in Dam reservoirs for Safety of Downstream Structures

The present Institutional Co-operation Programme is related mainly to Dam safety aspects.

Areas of Co-operation

The following areas of Co-operation will be in focus:

• Geological and geotechnical investigations in dam reservoirs for identification of hazards to dams and downstream structures.
  
  
• Stability analysis for studying the effects of filling reservoir behind dams
  
  
• Stability analysis of main dam structures and reservoir rim under full reservoir and sudden drawdown condition.
  
  
• Concrete/construction meterial characterization in respect of exisiting dams.
  
  
• Detection of seepage, cracks etc., by using latest state of art equipments.
  
  
• Risk and reliability analysis
  
  
• Instruction for assessing the quality and Integrity of materials used in construction of water resources structures and for evaluation of safety of ageing dams.
  
  
• Evaluation of methods for rehabilitation of surface and subsurface water resources structures.