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Department Laboratories

 The Department has following Laboratories

  1. Strength of Materials/ Material Testing Laboratory
  2. Surveying Laboratory
  3. Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory
  4. Transportation Engineering Laboratory
  5. Environmental Engineering Laboratory
  6. Computer Aided Design Laboratory (CAD Lab)
  7. BT / NDT and Structural Engineering Lab
  8. Project lab
  9. Model Lab/ Project Lab B
  10. Civil Engineering Workshop

Lab Details

The department has well-equipped laboratories to run the UG and PG programs as per CUSAT & KTU Syllabi.

The objective of the strength of materials lab is to demonstrate the basic principles in the area of strength and mechanics of materials and structural analysis to the undergraduate students through a series of experiments.  In this lab the experiments are performed to measure the properties of the materials such as impact strength, tensile strength, compressive strength, hardness etc.

 
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS/ MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY
List of Equipment
1  Universal testing machine 9  Spring testing machine
2  Rockwell & Brinell hardness testing machine 10  Vibration table
3  Vicker’s hardness testing machine 11  Vicat apparatus
4  Impact testing machine 12  Rapid chloride penetration test apparatus
5  Torsion testing machine 13  Mixer machine
6  Compression testing machine 14  Needle vibrator
7  Slump & compaction factor apparatus 15  Permeability Apparatus
8  Flexural testing machine    

Surveying lab offers supplemental experience in fundamental land surveying measurement methods for surveying courses, including precision taping methods to perform horizontal measurements, traditional transits and digital theodolites to perform angular measurements, and traditional and automatic levels for elevation measurements. In addition, students have opportunity to use total station equipment, which enables horizontal, vertical, and angular measurements to be made in one operation.

 
SURVEYING LABORATORY
List of Equipment
1
Chain 20M With 10 Arrows 22 Ediograph
2 Chain 30M With 10 Arrows 23 Hand Level
3 Ranging Rod -3M 24 Abney Level
4 Ranging Rod -2M 25 Clinometer
5 Cross Staff 26 Ceylon Ghat Tracer
6 Measuring Tape 30M 27 Box Sextant
7 Measuring Tape 20M 28 Substance Bar 3M With Target & Aluminium Telescopic Tripod
8 Prismatic Compass 29 Pentax Total Station With All Accessories
9 Surveyors Compass 30 LYNX Electronic Theodolite With Tripod
10 Mallet 31 LYNX ST 20E Theodolite With Stand
11 Wooden Peg 32 Measuring Tape 30M fibre glass
12 Plane Table Wth complete Accessories 33 Plane Table complete set
13 Dumpy Level 9” in Plastic Box With Tripod 34 Dumpy Level in Plastic Box With Aluminium Tripod
14 Dumpy Level12” in Wooden Box With Tripod 35 Total Station (Model TOPCORN)
15 Levelling Staff 4M Aluminium AL4T(NM) 36 Measuring Tape
16 Levelling Staff 5M Aluminium AL5T(NM) 37 Chain 20 m
17 Auto Level 38 Arrows wooden pegs pegs
18 Vernier Transit Theodolite 20sec Accuracy With Tripod 39 Cross Staff
19 Tripod Aluminium Export Quality 40 Measuring Tape
20 DPlanimeter 41 Digital level
21 Pentagraph 42 Garmin Etarx 30 – Hand Held GPS

A typical geotechnical engineering laboratory helps in identifying the engineering behavior of soils and rocks. There are different physical, chemical and geotechnical properties determined in the laboratory that is required for identifying the geomaterials. This information is used by geotechnical engineer for designing the type of foundations, earthworks such as dams, embankments, tunnels, reservoirs, pavement subgrades, and specialized applications like waste containment systems. The preciseness of such design is entirely based on the experimental information obtained from a geotechnical laboratory. Therefore, geotechnical engineering laboratory has a great role to play in rendering the subsurface a safe and stable load bearing medium

 
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
List of Equipment
1 Direct shear apparatus 10 UCC testing apparatus
2 Consolidation apparatus 11 Tri axial shear test apparatus
3 Permeability apparatus 12 Sieve shaker – gyratory motorised  
4 Plastic limit apparatus 13 Lab Vane shear test apparatus
5 Liquid limit test apparatus 14 Hot Air Oven (bottom heated)
6 Shrinkage limit apparatus 15 Particle size distribution apparatus
7 Soil hydrometer 16 Standard Penetration test apparatus
8 Laboratory CBR test apparatus  17 In-situ vane shear test apparatus
9 Lynx pycnometer 18 Gyro-rotatory sieve shaker

Transportation engineering applies scientific and technical knowledge to provide economical and efficient transportation service that meets societal needs while maintaining compatibility with environmental, energy and safety goals. The course provides both a broad awareness of transportation concepts and an understanding of scientific and technical knowledge to address transportation problems

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING LABORATORY
List of Equipment
1 Standard penetrometer 9 Density basket
2 Pensky-Martens Flash and Fire point test apparatus 10 Los Angeles Abrasion Testing Machine
3 Aggregate Crushing value test apparatus 11 Benkelman Beam Apparatus
4 Aggregate Impact value apparatus 12 Double walled lab Oven
5 Ring and ball apparatus (Electrically heated) 13 Electric Hot Plate
6 Ductility test apparatus 14 Dynamic cone penetrometer
7 Marshall stability apparatus 15 Brookfield viscometer
8 Centrifugal Extractor (Hand operated) 16 Merlin Apparatus

Environmental engineering is a branch of civil engineering concerned with the application of scientific and engineering principles for: 1) protection of human populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors; 2) protection of environments, both local and global, from the potentially deleterious effects of natural and human activities; and, 3) improvement of environmental quality. The lab mainly consists of checking potable water standards, presence of heavy metals and other pollutants in water.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
List of Equipment
1 Turbidity meter model-331 8 Chloroscope ampule type 0.1-5 ppm(12 Amps)
2 PH meter model L1-127 9 Desicator plain pp/pa 200mm
3 BOD Incubator,stabilizer,cyclic timer and thermometer 10 Spectrophotometer
4 Incubator digital controller ins-5 11 Hot plate with energy regulator
5 Flocculater model KFLO-2 12 Oven with digital controller
6 Waterbath model WBD-1 13 Air condenser
7 Muffle furnace    

The Objective of this lab is to introduce various CADD software (AutoCAD, Revit), softwares used for Analysis & design (Staad Pro, Ansys, NISA) and softwares used for planning & management( Primevera, MSP).

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN LABORATORY (CAD LAB)
List of Equipment
1 Nisa Civil 16 6  Primevera Contractor Standard
2 Autocad 2016 7  Primevera P6
3 Autocad Revit Architectural Suit 8  Ansys + Civil Fem 14.5
4 Autodesk Inventor 9  Microsoft Project Professional
5 Staad Pro V8i 10  Revit 2016

Building technology and NDT lab explores ways to use design and technology to test various building parameters that contribute to a more humane, environmentally responsible and structurally stable built world. It allows the students to quantify the comfort conditions in a building using state of the art testing equipments. The lab also gives an insight into the structural conditions of a building without damaging it. Objective of Structural engg lab is to conduct experimental studies on model/prototype of structural elements and assemblies under various static and dynamic loading conditions.

BT / NDT & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING LAB
List of Equipment
1 Horizontal Shake table with eccentric Cam 9 Digital Anemometer
2 Horizontal Shake table with cylindrical Cam 10 Psycrometer
3 Vertical shake table 11 Hygrometer
4 Digital Storage Oscilloscope (2 channel – 50 MHz & 4 channel – 70 MHz) 12 Digital Lux meter
5 Vibration Absorption test set up 13 Ultrasonic Pulse velocity tester
6 Strain Measurement Kit (Strain Gauges, Strain Rossets (2 element& 3 element), Strain Indicators (5 channel)) 14 Concrete penetrometer
7 Rebound Test Hammer 15 Cup Anemometer
8 Sound level meter    

The department has a well equipped project laboratory for carrying out M.Tech and B.Tech Projects. The normal timing of the laboratory is from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The lab shall function on holidays as per the requirement of students.

PROJECT LAB
List of Equipment
1 Sand Pouring cylinder large 8 Pressure guage
2 Bacteriological Incubator Digital controlled 9 Promivac vaccum pump
3 Rapid Chloride permeability test apparatus 10 Electronic weighing machine
4 Total station Topcon 11 I.S.Sieves 30cm dia
5 Concrete permeability test apparatus 12 Fiber glass container and valves
6 Benkelman Beam apparatus 13 Digital computarised UTM 100T capacity
7 Laboratory oven double walled    

The department has a well arranged model Lab (Project Lab B) with 35 number of exhibits. The exhibits cover the wide range of models prepared as part of student projects.

The Department has a well equipped Civil Engineering Workshop. The Workshop was established in the year 2015 with the advent of Kerala Technological University (KTU). The Workshop is intended to conduct the fundamental experiments in Civil Engineering. The workshop runs throughout the year for both Civil Engineering students and students from all other branches of Engineering

CIVIL ENGINEERING WORKSHOP
List of Equipment
1 Tape 2 Chain