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Dr. Solomon Debbarma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Transportation Systems Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai, India 400076
Dr. Solomon Debbarma is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). Before joining IIT Bombay, Debbarma was an Adjunct Lecturer and a Postdoc at the Ingram School of Engineering of Texas State University, USA. He received a PhD and an M.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He graduated with a Civil Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Agartala (NIT Agartala). His primary research interests include rigid pavements, sustainable concrete materials (e.g., recycled aggregates, industrial and agricultural wastes) and special concrete for paving applications.
Research Interests
Concrete Pavements
Recycling of Aggregates in Concrete
Pavement Material Characterization
Speciality Concrete Mixes (Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements, Pervious Concrete Pavements, Geopolymer Concrete Pavements, Self-Compacting Concrete Pavements, Whitetopping, Extra-Terrestrial Concrete)
Pavement Evaluation, Maintenance, Repair, and Rehabilitation
Latest News
Dr. Dhritee Diksha Baroowa (Ph.D. IIT Kharagpur) joined the group on 4th August 2025 as a Project Research Scientist. Welcome Dr. Baroowa!
Congratulations to Ritika for paper publication in the Journal of Construction and Building Materials. Link to article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061825030053?dgcid=author
Congratulations to Anusha for paper publication in the Journal of Transportation Research Record. Link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03611981251339164
Congratulations to Anusha for presenting her research during the 104th TRB Annual Meeting held at Washington D.C. USA, January 5-9, 2025. Title of poster: Laboratory Investigation of Internal Curing Potential in Stiff Mortar Mixtures Using Expanded Clay Aggregates.
Prachi joined our group as a PhD research scholar Jan 3, 2024. Welcome!
Congratulations to Anusha for presenting her research during the 83rd Annual Session of IRC held at Raipur (Chhattisgarh) from 8th to 11th November, 2024.
Anusha's research work is accepted for presentation in the TRB 104th Annual Meeting at Washington D.C. USA, Jan 5-9, 2025. Congratulations!
Our group presented (poster) two papers in the 10th International Conference on Concrete Under Severe Conditions - Environment & Loading (CONSEC) 2024, September 25 - 27, 2024 at IIT Madras Research Park, India.
Anusha presented a poster titled "Expanded Clay Aggregate as an Internal Curing Agent to Produce Stiff Mortar Mixtures for Paving Application – A Laboratory Study".
Ritika presented a poster title "Critical Appraisal on the Interfacial Bonding Mechanism of RAP-PCC Mixes and Ways to Improve it".
Irfan and Menbere joined the group in Autumn 2024 session as PhD research scholars. Welcome!
Kamran's review article on "Carbon capture and mineralisation using red mud" is published in the prestigious Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier. Link to article https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143458
Congratulations!
Debbarma visited the NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Orlando Florida, USA during Oct. 26-27, 2023. This visit was a part of collaborative visit which included special tours not available to the general public.
Dr. Anupam B.R. joined the group on July 10, 2023 as a postdoctoral research fellow. Welcome Anupam!
Debbarma served as Subject Matter Expert/Mentor for the event TATA Steel Advanced Materials Research Centre (TSAMRC) MaterialNEXT 4.0 in the area of 'Emerging Construction Materials' to help assess the ideas and guide the selected teams, engaging once in 2-3 weeks (for 1-2 hours) during execution of the event (end-Jan'23 to mid-Apr'23) along with the local mentors (faculties from participating teams' institutes) and Internal Mentors from Tata Steel side.
Debbarma chaired a session on “Materials and Construction” in the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Implementation Planning – Conception to Execution (TIPCE) organized by the Transportation Engineering Group, IIT Roorkee, held during September 14-17, 2022
Debbarma acted as a Postdoc mentor for the NASA MINDS Undergraduate project: Geopolymer for Future Lunar 3D construction (PI: Shi, X., $2,500 awarded) and led the TXST Bobcat CaerusCrete team won 1st place in the 2022 NASA MINDS Undergraduate Student Design competition among all the underclassmen teams
Debbarma served as an Entrepreneur Lead in an NSF I-Corps project: High-performance Cementitious Materials, funded by the National Science Foundation (PI: Shi, X.; $50,000 awarded) in the year 2021-2022 and conducted 101 customer discoveries to assess the market of the team’s developed technology on using high recycled materials content to develop a novel concrete mixture.
Debbarma's co-authored publication on using reclaimed asphalt pavement for pervious concrete pavement mixes featured in the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and the International Society for Concrete Pavements online news
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