Department Facilities

The Department has many laboratory facilities, Computer facility and a Department Library for students.

A) LABORATORY FACILITIES:

Department of Civil Engineering has seven laboratories. The laboratories of the Department have state-of-the art equipments and are made available for the regular academic work, research works and Consultancy Works.

1. Strength of Materials Lab

The laboratory has facilities for conducting practical classes for undergraduate programs. The 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 equipments available in the lab are:

• Computerized UTM of capacity 120 T
• Universal testing machine of capacity 60T
• Torsion testing machine
• Impact testing machine
• Brinell hardness testing machine
• Rockwell hardness testing machine
• Spring testing machine
• Torsion Pendulum
• Test set up for finding Moment of Inertia for fly wheel
• A uni-axial horizontal Shake Table with maximum acceleration of 2.0 g and maximum load carrying capacity of 60 kg has been installed recently. NI Data Acquisition system, high sensitivity accelerometers and modally tuned impact hammer are the additional features.

2. 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 equipments available in the lab are:

3. Transportation Engineering 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:

4. Concrete Lab:

The Concrete Lab is equipped with the following equipments which is extensively used for the laboratory practical classes as well as for the testing and Consultancy works.

5. Environmental Engineering Lab:

This lab is mainly intended for qualitative and quantitative analysis of the characteristics of water and wastewater.

Various equipments available in the lab are:

6. Survey Lab:

The lab has a collection of the following equipments which are provided for the practical sessions for UG students. Students perform the Survey camp for getting a practical exposure of field survey using the Total Station.

B) DEPARTMENT COMPUTER FACILITY:

The Department has a well-set up Computer Lab with about 40 computers for computer based lab works and for other computational facility. Facility for doing Programming practical, CAD drawing preparation and use of Structural Analysis and Design softwares are available for UG students.

Computer Lab

C) DEPARTMENT LIBRARY FACILITY:

There is a collection of about 250 text books and Seminar and Project Reports of students specifically provided to the Civil Engineering Department students. The students can lend books from the library on semester basis.