Strength of Materials Lab

Strength of Materials Laboratory (also called Material Testing Laboratory), in which all Under Graduate students of Civil Engg, Mechanical Engg, and related branches undergo a course mandatorily, is equipped with the state of the art equipments/ machines to test the basic properties of engineering materials like steel, copper, brass, aluminium, and concrete. The lab houses the following equipments: Universal Testing Machines (of capacities 25 t, 1000 kN and 2000 kN), Compression Testing Machine (100 t), Torsion Testing Machine, Hardness Testing Machines (Brinnel and Rockwell), Impact Testing Machine (for Izod and Charpy), Fatigue Testing Machine, etc. The laboratory also carries out commercial testing of construction materials like reinforcing steel, concrete, hollow and solid building blocks, interlock paving blocks, etc. on a regular basis. Our clients include M/ S Konkan Railway Corporation, ACC, Ultratech, Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd., Brahmavar Chemicals, Premier Builders, and other leading local realtors.

Concrete & Highway Material Testing Lab

The Concrete & Highway Material Testing Lab is well equipped with machinery & apparatus for testing building materials like cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, cement concrete, bricks, tiles (Roofing & Paving), concrete blocks, bitumen etc. The lab is used for the regular academic works, research works and consultancy work. Consultancy service is provided in the area of testing cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate, cement concrete, highway materials, bricks, tiles, paving blocks & other building materials. Consultancy service is also provided in the area of mix design of cement concrete.

Structural Engineering Lab

The Structural Engineering lab is equipped with machinery and is used mainly for the research purposes, even though it is used for academic purposes & consultancy at times work. The major machinery includes Universal Testing Machine, Compression Testing machine and loading frame. Non- destructive testing instruments like Ultra Sonic Tester (TICO), Rebar locator (Profometer 5) and strain Gauges (both Mechanical & Electrical) are also available. In addition to the above, corrosion analyzing instrument (CANIN) is also available in this lab along with other equipments like Arches, Lamp posts, frames and beams for model analysis.

Hydraulic Machines Lab

The Hydraulic Machines laboratory is set up under Civil engineering Department. It caters to the needs of the under graduate programmes offered by the departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. In addition to the laboratory courses of the academic programmes, it facilitates the research works of faculty and students. The objective of the laboratory courses in Hydraulic Machines is to familiarise the students with the components and working principles of the Hydraulic machines- different types of Turbines, Pumps, and other miscellaneous hydraulics machines. Students study the performance characteristics of the machines under widely varying operating conditions in this laboratory.

Environmental Engineering Lab

The laboratory will be used in VI semester as per the present syllabus and also for project works in the area of environmental engineering. The laboratory has the facility to test water and waste water samples for various physical, chemical and biological parameters. The laboratories also used for consultancy works like testing of water samples from wells, rivers etc and also waste water samples from the industries. We also undertake the chemical analysis of certain building materials like sand, cement, laterite etc. The lab is also equipped with a noise level measuring equipment. The laboratory will be upgraded with more instrumentation and air quality measuring equipments in the subsequent years.

Computer Lab

The central computer centre of institute caters to the under graduate academic requirements. The department computer is dedicated to the

1. Academic requirements of postgraduate courses of the department.
2. Research requirements of the department.
3. Computational support to the consultancy work carried out by the department.

With these objectives, the centre is equipped with hardware and software as follows:

Hardware:

1. HP Compaq dx2480 Core 2 Duo E72000 processor, 160GB HDD, 2GB RAM(DDR), DVD-RW, USB mouse and Keyboard -12 Nos
2. IBM Intellistations, Xeon 2 Ghz, Dual CPU,1GB RD RAM, 40 GB HDD -2 Nos
3. Pentium IV 2Ghz, 256 MB RAM, 40GB HDD –10 Nos
4. Pentium III 450 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 40GB HDD – 09 Nos

Software:

1. ADFAST Rel. 4.0
2. STRUDS for Windows Version 6.0
3. NISA - Upgraded to version 9
4. Estimation Software
5. ILWIS information system software
6. ER Mapper Ver 6.2
7. Auto desk land development software-Network version -3 Licences
8. QE-Pro(Quantity estimation & Project Management Software) Network version 5.6.4- 5Licenses
9. MS Office Project Professional 2003- 5 Licenses
10. Primavera P3e/c ver. 5.0 – Network version-3 Licenses
11. STAADPRO Rel. V.8(Staad 2007) -5 Licenses

Soil Mechanics Lab

The Soil Mechanics laboratory possesses a wide range of testing equipments to study the properties of soil and to quantify these properties to predict how soil will behave under field loading for the safe design of structures. The laboratory is equipped with the apparatus required to perform all standard soil tests including the triaxial test, the direct shear test, CBR test, Static cone penetrometer test etc,. The laboratory has been a host to many thesis studies. The laboratory also provides services to the private sector. Standard soil tests are conducted on soil samples that have been brought for analysis which includes grain size distribution, consistency limits, permeability tests, proctor compaction tests, bearing capacity etc, to predict the soil behaviour

Irrigation Lab

The main function of this laboratory is to study flow measurements. Experiments are conducted to measure the rate of flow using Notches, weirs, Venturimeter, Orifices meter etc and there by determining coefficient of discharge. This lab is conducted for civil and mechanical students