IIT Kanpur Offers Bamboo-Based Vibration Barrier Technology for Licensing

Key facts

• Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have developed a passive underground barrier system using bamboo-filled trenches to reduce ground-borne vibrations from traffic, construction, and industrial machinery.
• The technology, titled A Passive Vibration Screening Arrangement with Bamboo In-filled Wave Barriers, was developed by Dr. Priyanka Ghosh and Sreyashrao Surapreddi.
• The invention was granted Indian Patent No. 436990 on July 3, 2023.
• Field-scale studies published in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering in 2024 and the ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology in 2025 confirmed the system's effectiveness, particularly at higher frequencies.
• The institute has made the technology available for commercial licensing to infrastructure developers and industrial operators.