The department has the following well equipped laboratories which provide practical instruction to undergraduate students and facilities for their project work.
- Surveying Laboratory
- Construction Materials Laboratory
- Water and Waste Water Analysis Laboratory
- Strength of Materials Laboratory
- Highway Engineering Laboratory
- Soil Mechanics Laboratory
- Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory
SURVEYING LABORATORY
The Surveying Laboratory is equipped with the instruments and tools used for the surveying course. Students learn techniques for gathering field data with both traditional and modern instruments and demonstrate their proficiency on lab exercises. Each lab group, comprising of three students, has a dedicated set of instruments to use, including Dumpy level, Theodolite, and Total station.
Major Equipments:
- Total stations
- Theodolites
- Dumpy Levels
- Prismatic Compass
- Plane Table
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS LABORATORY
The Construction Material Laboratory is equipped with experimental setup required for study of properties of various building materials.
Major Equipments:
- Compression testing machine
- Slump Cone Apparatus
- Flexure testing machine
- Compaction Factor Apparatus
- Aggregate Crushing Value Apparatus
- Aggregate Impact Value Apparatus
- Weighing Balance
WATER AND WASTE WATER ANALYSIS LABORATORY
The Water and Waste Water Analysis Laboratory comprises of modern and technically advanced instruments needed for water and wastewater analyses. The lab has also many in-situ devices and equipment to perform different types of measurements and to take grab and composite water, wastewater samples.
Major Equipments:
- Turbidity Meter
- Jar test apparatus
- Water bath
- Hot air oven
- Muffle furnace
- Compound microscope
- Weighing Machine
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS LABORATORY
Strength of Materials Laboratory comprises facilities for testing building materials. The strength, behavior and suitability for various applications are tested in the Laboratory.
Major Equipments:
- UTM of minimum 400 KN capacity
- Torsion testing machine
- Izod impact testing machine
- Hardness testing machine-Rockwell
- Hardness testing machine-Vickers/Brinnell
- Beam deflection test apparatus
HIGHWAY ENGINEERING LABORATORY
The Laboratory is furnished with equipments to run standard tests on cement, aggregates and concrete. Apparatus are available to measure aggregate properties, to test the impact and crushing strength of materials, to measure properties of fresh concrete This lab consists of equipment used in the testing of bituminous materials such as viscosity, ductility and plasticity and other devices for super-pave testing of bitumen and aggregates. There are other devices for mix design by both Marshall Methods.
Major Equipments:
- Aggregate Impact Testing Machine
- Marshall Stability Testing Machine
- Softening Point Apparatus
- Ductility test apparatus
- Bitumen Centrifuge Extractor
- Penetrometer apparatus
SOIL MECHANICS LABORATORY
The soil mechanics laboratory has equipments used for the evaluation of physical properties of soils, such as, mass, weight, unit weight, mass density of the soil mass and its component phases. Soil mechanics laboratory is well equipped with all the equipments required for identification and classification of soils..
Major Equipments:
• Proctor compaction apparatus
• Direct shear apparatus
• Sand replacement method accessories and
• core cutter method accessories
• Triaxial shear apparatus
• Three gang consolidation test device
• Relative Density apparatus
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HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING LABORATORY
The hydraulics laboratory is fully equipped with all the facilities and experimental setup through which students are given a very good demonstration to understand various methods of measurement of flow rates, capacity & velocity of water in tanks, closed pipes and open channels.
Major Equipments:
- Pipe friction apparatus
- Venturimeter /Orifice meter apparatus
- Bernoullis apparatus
- Reynolds’ apparatus
- Rota Meter
- Centrifugal Pump
- Gear Pump
- Submersible Pump
- Reciprocating Pump
- Pelton Wheel Turbine
- Kaplan Turbine
- Determination of Metacentric height of floating bodies
- Friction factor in pipes
- Minor Losses