Est. 2020 · The Flagship Research Hub
PaveLab
Pavement Engineering & Sustainable Materials Group, IIT Indore
Translating fundamental science into field-scale infrastructure — through rheology, recycled materials, and rigorous performance evaluation.
01 · Research
Core Research Thrusts
Five intersecting lines of inquiry advancing pavement engineering from molecular rheology to nation-scale field performance.
Thrust 01
Sustainable Bituminous Mixtures
Engineering low-carbon binders using industrial by-products and recycled materials.
Performance-graded asphalt binders with steel slag, RAP, plastic-waste additives, and warm-mix technologies. Verified through Superpave + Indian climatic protocols.
Thrust 02
Rheological Characterization
From master curves to time-temperature superposition — decoding viscoelastic behavior.
Dynamic shear rheometer studies, fatigue and rutting prediction, oscillatory thixotropy, recovery mechanics for modified binders and mastics.
Thrust 03
Recycling & Circular Infrastructure
RAP, RAS, plastic-waste, and construction debris valorisation for pavement layers.
Closing the loop between waste streams and high-performance road materials — life cycle assessment, cost-benefit modeling, and durability mapping.
Thrust 04
Field Performance Evaluation
Pavement health monitoring under live traffic and Indian climatic gradients.
Non-destructive testing (FWD, GPR, IRI), structural-functional indices, distress mapping, and ML-driven deterioration models on real highway stretches.
Thrust 05
Smart City Pavements & Sensors
Embedded instrumentation, IoT-driven monitoring and predictive analytics.
Piezo and fiber-optic sensors, real-time pavement health dashboards, ML for traffic-pavement coupling and lifecycle optimization.
02 · Impact
Field-Scale Implementations
Beyond the lab — large-scale deployments and continuous performance monitoring with industrial and government partners.
No field implementations listed yet.
03 · Funding
Active Grants & Sponsored Projects
Experiment and theoretical investigations on the nanocomposites with their applications in the defence equipment and transportation services
YFRGC IIT Indore
Evaluation of Coarse, Fine and SMA Asphalt Mix Incorporating Copper Mine Tailings
Additional Competitive Research Grant, BITS Pilani
Consultancy
Consultancy & Advisory Projects
Industrial testing, smart-city advisory, and government/private consultancies delivered through IIT Indore's research framework.
Vetting of Concrete and Bitumen Mix Design for "Rehabilitation and Up-gradation to Four Lane Road from km. 70.500 to km. 78.600 of NH-92 under EPC mode in the State of Uttar Pradesh".
ASC Infratech Pvt. Ltd.
2026-04-15 → 2026-04-30
On-site Field Verification, Vetting of Pavement Crust Design, and Geo-grid Material Testing for Indore Western Bypass (Pkg-I)
MKCIL
2026-05-27 → Present
04 · Industry
Industrial Partners
G R Infraprojects Limited
Both
L&T Construction
Both
ASC Infratech Private Limited
Both
National Highways Authority of India
Both
CSIR - Central Road Research Institute
Research
Vizag Steel
Research
MKC Infrastructure Ltd.
Research
ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India
Research
05 · Group
Current Lab Members
Scholars and students driving the day-to-day science at PaveLab — organised by appointment type.
PhD
4
Kajol Kankane
"Pavement Materials"
Pavement Materials
Shuddhashil Ghosh
"Pervious Concrete"
Pavement Materials
Mahaveer Singh Dangi
"Steel Slag"
Pavement Materials
Tarun Kumar Narnaure
"Steel Slag"
Pavement Materials
Archive
Alumni & Past Members
3 scholars who trained at PaveLab and went on to shape pavement engineering elsewhere.
Doctoral & Master's Alumni
Kapil Dhamu
MTech
- Graduated
- 2019
B.Tech Alumni
| Name | Year | B.Tech Project | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
Ghanshyam Sahu* (JEC Jabalpur) | 2025 | Advanced ML based Mix Design Methodology for Pervvious Concrete | — |
 Ravi kumar | 2025 | Computational Modelling of Pervious Concrete | Management Trainee, Bharat Petroleum Corporation limited |
06 · Outputs
Selected Publications
31 entries · peer-reviewed work spanning rheology, recycling, and field performance.
Decoupling Geometric and Compaction Effects on Pervious Concrete Properties: A Gaussian Process Regression and Sensitivity Analysis
Shuddhashil Ghosh and Priyansh Singh
Journal of Testing and Evaluation (2026)
Multi-Objective Optimization of Graphene Nanoplatelet-Modified VG30 Asphalt Binder Preparation via Response Surface Methodology
Kankane, Kajol and Singh, Priyansh
Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements (2026)
An Explainable Machine Learning Framework for Sustainable Pervious Concrete Pavement Design: Strength Prediction and CO2--Cost Tradeoff Analysis
Ghosh, Shuddhashil and Singh, Priyansh
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2026)
Optimising Hydrological and Mechanical Properties of Pervious Concrete: A Statistical Approach
Ghosh, Shuddhashil and Singh, Priyansh
Transportation in Developing Economies (2026)
A reliability-based optimisation framework for pervious concrete gradation: Balancing strength and permeability under uncertainty
Shuddhashil Ghosh and Priyansh Singh
Results in Engineering, Vol. 30 (2026)
Assessment of Dispersion and Physical Characteristics of Asphalt Binders Enhanced with Graphene
Kankane, K. and Singh, P.
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol. 653 (2025)
Optimizing Physical Properties of Asphalt Modified with Coconut Biochar and Linseed Oil Using Response Surface Methodology
Kajol Kankane and Priyansh Singh
11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING \& MANAGEMENT (2025)
Optimising hydrological and mechanical properties of pervious concrete: A statistical approach
Ghosh, S. and Kumar, R. and Singh, P.
15th International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC) (2024)
Estimation of Pervious Concrete Air Voids Using 2d Image Analysis and Unfolding Technique
Ghosh, S. and Singh, P.
MP Young Scientist Congress (2024)
Effect of Porosity and Compaction Method on Noise and Light Reflectance of Pervious Concrete
Shuddhashil GHOSH, Vishwas BATHAM, Priyansh SINGH
Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol. 15, 2494-2509 (2024)
Environmentally Conscious Pavement Solutions: The Role of Coconut biochar and Linseed oil in Asphalt Binder Modification
Kajol Kankane
40th MPYSC (2024)
Influence of mould sizes, compaction, and curing regimes on the properties of pervious concrete
Ghosh, S. and Singh, P.
Creative and Innovative Solutions in Civil Engineering (CISCE) (2023)
Effect of Porosity and Compaction Method on Noise and Light Reflectance of Pervious Concrete
Ghosh, S. and Batham, V. and Singh, P.
International Conference Of The Eastern Asia Society For Transportation Studies (EASTS) (2023)
Effect of superplasticizer on characteristics of pervious concrete
Ghosh, S. and Singh, P.
Recent Trends in Transportation Infrastructure, Volume 1, Vol. 354, 27--37 (2023)
Evaluation of Dispersion and Physical Performance of RGO and GNP Modified Asphalt Binder
Kajol Kankane
39th MPYSC (2023)
Dynamic Response of Some Noncarbon Nanomaterials Using Multiscale Modeling Involving Material and Geometric Nonlinearities
Ravi Raj, B. M. and Singh, Sandeep and Mali, Kiran D. and Singh, Priyansh
Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 17, 081005 (2022)
A Concrete Shift
Ghosh, Shuddhashil and Singh, Priyansh
Construction World (2022)
Probabilistic approach to characterise laboratory rutting behaviour of asphalt concrete mixtures
Singh, Priyansh and Swamy, Aravind Krishna
International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 21, 384-396 (2020)
A Companion for Improved Pavement Construction
Tophel, Amir and Singh, Priyansh
Construction World (2020)
Effect of aging level on viscoelastic properties of asphalt binder containing waste polyethylene
Priyansh Singh and Aravind Krishna Swamy
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, Vol. 12, 141--148 (2019)
Characterization of resistance aggregate degradation and rutting of asphalt m
Priyansh Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2019)
Probabilistic characterisation of damage characteristic curve of asphalt concrete mixtures
Singh, Priyansh and Swamy, Aravind Krishna
International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Vol. 20, 659–668 (2019)
Creating Sustainable Transportation System in India --- Materials Engineer Perspective
Swamy, A.K. and Singh, Priyansh
Mobility Engineering: Proceedings of CAETS 2015, 87--90 (2017)
Development of Probabilistic Rutting Curve from Wheel Tracking Device Data
Singh, Priyansh and Swamy, A.K.
International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Systems (2017)
Use of WLF Equation to Capture Short Term Aging Characteristics of Asphalt Binder
Singh, Priyansh and Swamy, A.K.
International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Systems (2017)
Properties of asphalt binder and asphalt concrete containing waste polyethylene
Singh, Priyansh; Tophel, Amir; Swamy, Aravind Krishna
Petroleum Science and Technology, Vol. 35, 495–500 (2017)
Creating Sustainable Transportation System in India—Materials Engineer Perspective
Swamy, Aravind Krishna and Singh, Priyansh
Mobility Engineering: Proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on Pathways to Sustainability, 87--90 (2017)
Degradation of asphalt mixtures due to impact method of compaction
Singh, P and Swamy, AK
Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, 243--249 (2017)
Influence of Aggregate Gradation on Permanent Deformation Characteristics of Asphalt Concrete
Singh, P. and Swamy, A. K.
3rd Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (3rd CTRG): 17th--20th December 2015 (2015)
Determination of Mixing and Compaction Temperatures of Asphalt Concrete Mixes by Density Analysis
Singh, P. and Choudhary, R.
International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure by ASCE India Section: 17th--18th October 2014 (2014)
Determination of mixing and compaction temperatures of asphalt concrete mixes
Priyansh Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2013)