Following consultancy assignments are routinely undertaken by various departments/centres of NITK Surathkal.
- Design of storm water drainage network
- Certification for sustainable Sand removal from the rivers
- Design of vented dams or other water harvesting structures
- Land use-land cover analysis using RS data
- Design of vented dam/small dams/water retaining structures
- Development of information systems using GIS & Aerial photography for GIS
- Sediment dynamics study including siltation in harbors
- Design of seawalls and other coastal protection methods
- Change detection analysis for shorelines, land forms, coastal erosion areas, potential fishing zone
- Detection and Slope stability analysis
- Model testing for various kinds of Marine Structures in a regular wave flume
- Hydrological designs
- Planning, analysis and design of major/minor ports, fishing ports, drainage systems and water supply schemes
- Environmental impact assessment and management plan
- Environmental quality monitoring
- Modelling of water quality
- Risk and safety assessment in process industries
- Environmental audit and safety audit
- Air quality modelling and impact studies
- Structural design and detailing for multi-storied buildings, bridges, microwave towers, chimney.
- Concrete Mix-Design - Normal OPC-based mixes and special concretes.
- Design of water treatment plants, sewage treatment plant and solid waste disposal
- Air pollution monitoring, water and effluent quality monitoring
- Analysis of supplied SPT data and providing geo-technical reports
- Design of flexible and rigid pavements
- Design of concrete mix and rigid pavements and runways
- Traffic and transportation planning
- Capacity evaluation of industrial drive motors and welding transformers.
- Electric drive testing & redesign for industry
- Damper testing and mathematical model development
- Perceived noise source identification and control
- Vibration analysis of glass epoxy composites and piezolmaniated fiber beams
- Full mandible 3-D printing
- Fault detection of four stroke engines
- Failure and Root-Cause Analysis of industrial structures and engineering components,
- Materials Selection and Materials of Construction (MOC) Analysis
- Mechanical testing and materials characterization involving hardness, tensile, impact, indentation creep tests, tribological testing and analysis.
- Corrosion testing and analysis for industrial and structural components
- Design and analysis of heat treatments for structural steels, light metals, and commercial alloys including: age hardening, plain hardening, tempering, austempering, carburizing, sub-zero and cryogenic treatments.
- Analysis of severity of quenching, nano-quenchant Development and related investigations.
- Wettability/contact angle studies of various fluids on various solid surfaces
- FEM based numerical/computation work including stress Analysis, CFD, solidification studies, heat transfer
- Designing, processing, testing, and development of polymers and composites.
- Powder compaction and sintering/pressure consolidation of alloys, polymers, and composites
- Designing, testing, and characterization of industrial weldments
- Dip-coating, electroplating, surface treatment, and surface modification of experimental/industrial alloys.
- Stereoscopy, Fractography, Fracture Signature Identification and related analysis for industrial alloys and composites.
- Inclusion and grain-size analysis of industrial components as per ASTM standard.
- Thermo-mechanical processing, foundry & metal casting related investigations, plant layout design & renovation.
- Analysis and evaluation of industrial furnaces, refractories and thermocouples.
- Blast design, controlled blasting, under water blasting in ports
- Design of slopes, design of underground spaces, tunnels
- Planning, tendering & implementation of rock dredging projects
- Quantity surveys in mines
- Geo-technical Investigations