Department Facilities

Department of Civil Engineering has seven laboratories. This include Strength of Materials Lab, Geotechnical Lab, Transportation Lab, Survey Lab, Environmental Engineering Lab, Concrete Lab and CACE Lab. The laboratories of the department have state-of-the art equipmentsandare made available for the regular academic work and for the research works. The following laboratories are managed by the department.

Strength of Materials Lab

The laboratory has facilities for conducting practical classes for undergraduate programs. The undergraduate students are being encouraged to take up topics in the field of Structural Engineering for their project work by making use of facilities available in the laboratory.

Various equipment available in the lab are:

1. Computerized UTM of capacity 120 T

2. Universal testing machine of capacity 60T

3. Torsion testing machine

4. Impact testing machine

5. Brinell hardness testing machine

6. Rockwell hardness testing machine

7. Spring testing machine

8. Torsion Pendulum

9. Test set up for finding Moment of Inertia for fly wheel

10. A uni-axial horizontal shake table with maximum acceleration of 2.0g and maximum load carrying capacity of 60kg has been installed recently. NI Data Acquisition system, high sensitivity accelerometers and modally tuned impact hammer are the additional features.

Geotechnical Engineering Lab:

The laboratory has facilities for conducting practical classes for undergraduate programs, post graduate programmes and for doing various consultancy works in the field of soil mechanics. The undergraduate students are being encouraged to take up topics in the field of Geotechnical Engineering for their project work by making use of facilities available in the laboratory.

Various equipment available in the lab are:

Transportation Lab:

The Transportation Engineering Laboratory is equipped with facilities for testing of Aggregates, Bitumen and Soil. The Laboratory is fully equipped for conduct of regular experiments at UG level.

Various equipment available in the lab are: