Laboratories – Civil Engineering
April 5, 2024 2025-06-23 18:13Laboratories – Civil Engineering
Surveying Lab
- Laboratory of surveying is well equipped with all the required instruments and tools that are helpful for practical knowledge and overall understanding of a student.
- This laboratory helps the students to gain basic and advanced knowledge and hands-on experience on the usage of various surveying and levelling instruments.
- Students have the opportunity to use total station equipment, which enables horizontal, vertical and angular measurements in one operation.
Equipment list
- Auto Level
- Digital level
- Plane table
- Standard Vernier Theodolite
- Total station
- Dumpy level
- Distomat
 In charge
- Asst. Prof. Shifa N (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Shyni S R (Staff in Charge)
Strength of Materials Lab
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Mechanical properties of various materials like brass, mild steel, tor steel, aluminium, brick etc. can be tested.
- Equipment List
- 400kN capacity Universal Testing Machine (UTM)
- Torsion Testing Machine
- Izod and Charpy Impact Testing Machines
- Brinell and Rockwell Hardness Testing Machines
- Spring Testing Machine for both open and close coiled springs
- Torsion Pendulum etc
Lab in Charge
- Asst. Prof. Rebecca Aswathy Joseph (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Shyni S R (Staff in Charge)
Concrete Lab
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An important lab for a Civil Engineering student as it deals with the testing of concrete and its constituents such as cement, aggregates and concrete (both fresh and hardened)
Equipment List
- 3000 kN capacity compression testing machine.
- 100 kN flexure testing machine.
- Vibrating table for compacting specimen
- Vicat apparatus
- Slump cone.
- Vee Bee Consistometer
- Compaction factor apparatus
- Sieve shaker.
- Length gauge
- Thickness gauge.
- IS set of sieves
- Flow test apparatus.
- Other accessories include moulds, cuboids, cylindrical & beam, weighing pans, platform type weigh balance, cylindrical measures, tamping rods etc.
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In Charge
- Asst. Prof. Rebecca Aswathy Joseph (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Sheena Kumari B K(Staff in Charge)
Software Lab
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The Civil Engineering Department has an excellent Software lab with facility for power back up. The lab is intended to provide state-of-the-art training for students in drafting, modelling and analysis softwares such as  AutoCAD 2023, STAAD PRO and ANSYS 11.0 are available. The lab gives training on programming languages like C and C++ also.
In Charge
- Asst. Prof. Preethi P (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Shyni S R (Staff in Charge)
Geotechnical Lab
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The Geotechnical Lab of Civil Engineering Department is well equipped with the latest testing facilities for determining characteristics of soil.
Equipment list
- Pycnometer
- Sand Pouring Cylinder
- IS set of sieves and sieve shaker
- Hydrometer Analysis apparatus
- Atterberg Limits apparatus
- Falling head permeameter and constant head permeameter.
- Consolidation Test apparatus
- Unconfined Compression Test apparatus
- Direct Shear Test apparatus
- Vane Shear Test apparatus
- California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Test apparatus.
In Charge:
- Asst. Prof. Aparna S R (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Sheena Kumari B K (Staff in Charge)
Transportation Engineering Lab
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The testing of highway materials such as bitumen and aggregates are essential for ascertaining its suitability in road construction. The Transportation Engineering Laboratory has facilities for testing the various properties of both aggregate and bitumen as well as subgrade soil.
The tests for aggregates
- Crushing Strength
- Impact Test
- Specific Gravity of Aggregate
- Angularity Number
- CBR Test on Soil
 The tests on bitumen
- Ductility Test
- Softening Point Test
- Penetration Test
- Specific Gravity
Merlin Apparatus for testing roughness of pavements
In Charge
- Asst. Prof, Soumya PM (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Sheena Kumari B K(Staff in Charge)
Environmental Engineering Lab
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This Laboratory facilitates students to analyze pollution parameters in water and waste water. The facilities include pH meter, Desiccators, Water bath, Hot Air Oven, Muffle Furnace, Spectrophotometer, BOD Incubator, COD Digestor, Conductivity Meter, Naphelometer, Analytical Balance, Electronic Balance, Jar Test Apparatus, Hot Plate, Muffle Furnace, Magnetic Stirrer, etc.
In Charge
- Asst. Prof. Preema P M(Faculty in charge)
- Mrs. Sheena Kumari B K (Staff in Charge)
Civil Engineering Workshop
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The civil engineering workshop acts as the baby steps towards understanding the opportunities of civil engineering. Here the newly admitted students are introduced to the basic concepts of civil engineering by giving hands on experience in setting out of a building, computing the area and volume of various components of buildings, construction of walls, preliminary testing of building materials etc.
In Charge
- Asst. Prof. Soumya P M (Faculty in Charge)
- Mrs. Rema S (Staff in Charge)
