Civil Engineering Department

FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARTMENT
Department Laboratories

Concrete Technology Laboratory

concretelab
concretelab
concretelab
concretelab

In addition to conventional equipments, the laboratory is having sophisticated instruments like Automatic Compression Testing Machine -3000 kN(ACTM) Electronic Universal Testing Machine(600 kN), Concrete Permeability test Apparatus, Carbonation Test Chamber, Water impermeability tester, Abrasion Resistance of concrete and electrically operated vibrators and sieve shakers. The laboratory is well equipped with all the equipments required for designing and testing of standard concrete, high strength grade of concrete and self compacting concrete.

Soil Engineering Laboratory

soilengineeringlab
soilengineeringlab

The lab is equipped with automated instruments like Fully Automatic Triaxial Testing System, Automatic Consolidation Test Apparatus, Automatic Compactor for Soils, Nail Shear Strength Test, Electrically operated direct shear apparatus and a large number of other equipments for determining the shear strength and related parameters of soil. Field testing equipment like Standard Penetration Test (SPT) apparatus, grouting machine, core drill equipments are also available for conducting site investigation and bearing capacity determination.

Highway Engineering Laboratory

highwaylab
highwaylab

The laboratory has equipments like Marshall Stability Apparatus for designing and testing of various bituminous mixes. Field testing equipments like Benkelman Beam Apparatus, Dynamic Cone Pentrometer, and Non Nuclear Density Guage are also available for rapid in-situ evaluation and testing of roads and runway pavements. Automatic Loading apparatus for evaluating the strength of soil subgrade and Bending Beam Rheometer for determining the properties of bitumen at sub zero temperature is also available.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory

phelab
phelab

The laboratory is equipped with microprocessor and PC based equipments, BOD incubator and COD digestors for Water and Waste water analysis. Facilities for testing air pollution and noise pollution is also available in this laboratory.

Non Destructive/Material Testing Laboratory

ndt
ndt Lab.
ndt Lab.

It has all the facilities for conducting insitu tests like UPV, Rebound Hammer, Carbonation, Reinforcement Diameter, Cover etc. for checking the concrete quality and integrity of structures. In addition chemical tests such as carbonation, chloride and sulphate ingress are also being tested.

Computer Application Laboratory

computerlab
computerlab

The Computer Application Laboratory has various software packages like STAAD Pro Connect Edition, ETABS, Abaqus, Bentley MX Road, MIDAS Soilworks, Primavera Project Planner, MapInfo Professional Software and ArcGIS for design, analysis, project planning and mapping resources.

Surveying Laboratory

surveying
surveying

The laboratory has equipments like Robotic Total Station, Autolevel, Microscopic Theodelite and the minor surveying equipments.

Advanced Computing Lab

adva_computing lab
adva_computing lab

Advanced Computing Lab established facilitates and promotes interdisciplinary research. Following objectives are accounted for the establishment of advanced computing lab:

  • Application of software for the development of structural and architectural drawings, dimensioning, grading plans, contour lines and sections.
  • Analysis and design of structural systems using structural engineering software packages.
  • Development of algorithms and computer codes to solution of civil engineering problems.
  • Development of programming skills for interdisciplinary research.

List of available software's:

  • OpenRoads
  • E-Tabs
  • MATLAB
  • STAAD Pro Connection Client
  • Abaqus
  • StormCAD
  • SewerGEMS
  • WaterGEMS
  • ContexCapture Viewer
  • AutoCAD 2023
  • Primavera