1. Natural Hazards & Slope Stability

• Landslide Mapping: Real-time monitoring and mapping in the Jammu region.
• Protection Works: Engineering solutions against rockfall, debris flow, and mudslides.
• Predictive Assessment: Leveraging GIS and Remote Sensing for hazard mitigation.

2. Resilient Infrastructure & Tunnelling

• Resilient Pavements: Transportation geotechnics for resilient highways.
• Impact Resilience: Designing rock-shed tunnels for high-impact rockfalls.
• Foundation Design: Advanced analysis of shallow and deep foundations, and dam-foundation systems on jointed rock.
• Underground Space: Advanced tunnelling techniques and settlement impact assessment.

3. Ground Improvement & Geosynthetics

• Geosynthetics: Reinforced infrastructure using locally available materials for slopes and pavements.
• Cold Weather Geotechnics: Infrastructure resilience in seasonally frozen regions.
• Bio-Geo Engineering: Root-soil interaction and bio-mediated stabilization.

4. Rock & Fracture Mechanics

• Material Characterization: Mechanical behavior of soft rocks and intermediate geomaterials.
• Fracture Analysis: Crack growth studies in rock masses with pre-existing flaws.