IITKGP

Kranthi Kumar Kuna

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Civil Engineering

+91-3222-282470

kranthi@civil.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Member, Council of Dean, Students Affairs

Research Areas

  • Sustainable materials in pavements
  • Design of highway and runway pavements
  • Pavement Asset Management

My area of expertise has been in Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure with main focus on Pavement Engineering for the past 7 years.

My research interests include pavement analysis and design, behaviour of pavement materials such as example, modified bitumen, cold-mix asphalt, hot mix asphalt (particularly mixes with high RAP content), pavement evaluation and asset management.

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Principal Investigator

  • Consultancy Services for road projects of Sekura India Management Limited, Mumbai
  • Development of Accelerated Pavement Test Facility to Evaluate Pavements of Village Roads
  • Development of Mix Design Method for Cold In-situ Recycling
  • Evaluation of Unbound materials, aggregates, bitumen, bitumen emulsion, bituminous , mastic asphalt and cold mixes of different government and private agencies
  • Improved Design Procedures for New and Rehabilitated Bituminous Pavements in India
  • Indigenous Development of Cement Asphalt Mortar (CAM) for High Speed Railway Track
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis Framework for Flexible and Rigid Pavements in Different Geographical and Climatic Conditions based on Field Performance Data
  • Skid resistance investigation of runway of Darima Airport (Ambikapur, Chattisgarh)
  • Vetting of pavement design reports and Performance evaluation of different bituminous and concrete mixtures of Sekura Indian Management Limited

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Performance evaluation of dense graded bituminous mixes for overlay at the Six Lane pavement section of Chandikhol -Jagatpur fromKm 413 to Km 418 and Km 0 to Km 62 in the state of Odisha Shree Jagannath Expressways Pvt. Ltd.
  • Preparation of Report for On-Street Parking Management in New Town Kolkata RITES LIMITED
  • Proof checking of pavement design report on upgradation to 2 lane with paved shoulder work of NH-122B from Hajipur to Bachhwara in the state of Bihar RAM KRIPAL SINGH CONSTRUCTION PVT LTD
  • Proof checking of pavement design report, plan and profile of Four Laning of Mehgama - Hansdiha section of NH - 133 from existing Km 41+900 to existing Km 93+000 in the State of JHARKHAND DILIP BUILDCON LIMITED

Ph. D. Students

Aman Kashyap

Area of Research: Pavement Engineering

Mrityunjay Midya

Area of Research: Pavement Engineering

Nabanita Roy

Area of Research: Pavement Friction and Surface Texture

Rahul Reddy B

Area of Research: Characterization of Pavement Material

Soumyarup Biswas

Area of Research: Pavement Engineering

Subhajit Banerjee

Area of Research: Pavement Engineering

Thavamani A

Area of Research: Pavement materials

MS Students

Saurav Kumar

Area of Research: Pavement Engineering

Vinayak Sahu

Area of Research: Pavement Materials and evaluation