The Department has excellent facilities for carrying out teaching and research activities in various disciplines of Civil Engineering. Some important facilities in the Department are:
- Structural Engineering Laboratory
- Simply supported beam to measure deflection.
- Continuous beam apparatus to measure deflection.
- Pin Jointed Truss apparatus
- Column with different end conditions
List of experiments:
- Deflection of a simply supported beam and verification of Clark-Maxwell's theorem.
- To determine the Flexural Rigidity of a given beam.
- To verify the Moment- area theorem for slope and deflection of a given beam.
- Deflection of a fixed beam and influence line for reactions.
- Deflection studies for a continuous beam and influence line for reactions.
- Study of behavior of columns and struts with different end conditions.
- Experiment on three-hinged arch and experiment on two-hinged arch.
- Deflection of a statically determinate pin jointed truss.
- Forces in members of redundant frames.
- Experiment on curved beams and unsymmetrical bending of a cantilever beam.
- Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
The Geotechnical lab has the equipment necessary to analyze all soil characteristics some of which are:
- Triaxial testing Machine
- Unconfined Testing Machine
- Standard Penetration Test Apparatus
- Permeability Test Apparatus
- Compaction Testing Machine
List of experiments:
- Determination of in-situ density by core cutter method and Sand replacement method.
- Determination of Liquid Limit & Plastic Limit.
- Determination of specific gravity of soil solids by pyconometer method.
- Grain size analysis of sand and determination of uniformity coefficient (Cu) and coefficient of curvature (Cc).
- Compaction test of soil and Determination of Relative Density of soil.
- Determination of permeability by Constant Head Method.
- Determination of permeability by Variable Head method.
- Unconfined Compression Test for fine grained soil.
- Direct Shear Test
- Triaxial Test and Swell Pressure Test
- Transportation Engineering Laboratory
Materials testing system for dynamic and resilient modulus of sub grade soils, impact value of aggregate.
- Marshall Stability test.
- Penetration test Apparatus of Bitumen.
- Abrasion test (Dorry‟s& Los Angeles).
- Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus
- Bitumen Extractor
List of experiments:
- Aggregate crushing value test and Impact value test.
- Abrasion test (Dorry‟s& Los Angeles)
- Soundness test and Flakiness test.
- Water absorption & specific gravity test
- Laboratory C. B. R. test.
- Penetration test on bitumen and Softening point test for bitumen
- Ductility test.
- Specific gravity Test.
- Viscosity test.
- Marshall Stability test.
- Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory
Some of the important equipment in this lab are:
- Vee notch and rectangular notch.
- Tilting Flume
- Reynold’s Apparatus
- Wind tunnel
List of experiments:
- To determine the meta-centric height of a floating vessel under loaded and unloaded conditions.
- To study the flow through a variable area duct and verify Bernoulii‟s energy equation.
- To determine the coefficient of discharge for an obstruction flow meter (venturimeter).
- To determine the coefficient of discharge for an obstruction flow meter (orifice meter).
- To determine the discharge coefficient for a Vee notch or rectangular notch.
- To determine the coefficient of discharge for Broad crested weir.
- To determine the hydraulic coefficients for flow through an orifice.
- To determine the friction coefficient for pipes of different diameter.
- To determine the head loss in a pipe line due to sudden expansion / sudden contraction/ bend. To determine the velocity distribution for pipe line flow with a pitot static probe.
- Surveying Engineering Laboratory
The Surveying Lab consists of an assortment of state-of-the-art equipment for performing various engineering measurements, some of which are:
- Total station
- Digital theodolite
- Auto Levels
List of experiments:
- Measurement of distance, ranging a line.
- Measurement of bearing and angles with compass, adjustment of traverse by graphical method.
- Different methods of leveling, height of instrument.
- Different methods of leveling, rise & fall methods.
- Measurement of horizontal and vertical angle by theodolite.
- Determination of tachometric constants and determination of reduced levels by tachometric observations.
- Plane table survey, different methods of plotting.
- Two point & three point problem.
- Determination of height of an inaccessible object.
- Setting out a transition curve. Setting out of circular curves in the field using different methods.
- Environmental engineering laboratory
In environment lab we have following instruments
- BOD incubator for a given waste water sample.
- COD digester
- Water and soil analysis kit
List of experiments:
- To measure the pH value of a water/waste water sample.
- To determine optimum Alum dose for Coagulation.
- To find MPN for the bacteriological examination of water.
- To find the turbidity of a given waste water/water sample
- To find B.O.D, COD and D.O. of a given waste water sample.
- Determination of Hardness of a given water sample
- Determination of total solids, dissolved solids, suspended solids of a given water sample.
- To determine the concentration of sulphates in water/wastewater sample.
- To find chlorides in a given sample of water/waste water.
- To find acidity/alkalinity of a given water sample
- DESIGN OF CONCRETE STRUCTURE-1
- Compression Testing Machine
- Flexure Testing Machine
- Soundness Test Apparatus
- Workability Apparatus
List of experiments:
- To Determine the Specific Gravity of cement
- To Determine the Soundness of cement.
- To Determine the Standard Consistency, Initial and Final Setting Times of Cement and Compressive Strength of Cement.
- To Determine the Fineness Modulus, Bulk Density.
- To determine water Absorption and Specific gravity of Fine and Coarse Aggregates.
- To Determine the Slump, Compaction Factor and Vee-Bee Time of Concrete.
- Mix Design of Concrete by IS methods
- To Determine the Compressive Strength of Concrete by Cube and Cylinder.
- To carry out the Split Tensile and Flexural strength of Concrete.
Compressive strength of Brick and Tile as IS standard