Material Testing & Evaluation Lab
Welcome to the Material Testing & Evaluation Laboratory!
Our Material Testing & Evaluation Lab is an integral part of the Civil Engineering curriculum, providing students and researchers with hands-on experience in testing various construction materials. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to assess the mechanical properties, durability, and performance of materials used in infrastructure projects.
Prof. In-Charge
Mr. Aviral Kumar (Assistant Professor)
Laboratory Infrastructure
- Objectives:
- To familiarize students with standard material testing procedures.
- To evaluate the strength, elasticity, and durability of materials like concrete, steel, etc.
- To support research and development in construction materials.
- To ensure quality control and compliance with industry standards.
- Key Equipment & Tests:
- Vicat Apparatus: Setting time of cement.
- Universal Testing Machine (UTM): Tensile, compression, and bending tests.
- Compression Testing Machine (CTM): Concrete and brick strength testing.
- Impact Testing Machine: Toughness assessment of materials.
- Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Tools: Ultrasonic pulse velocity, rebound hammer tests.
- Applications:
- Quality assessment in civil engineering projects.
- Research and innovation in sustainable construction materials.
- Structural health monitoring and failure analysis.
List of Experiments
- Shape and size of supplied bricks
- Determination of water absorption of bricks
- Determination of compressive strength of bricks
- Shape test on coarse aggregate (Flakiness and Elongation Index )
- Aggregate impact value test
- To determine grain size distribution of coarse aggregate
- To determine fineness modulus and grain size distribution of fine aggregate
- To determine fineness of cement
- To determine standard consistency of cement
- To determine setting time of cement
- To determine specific gravity of cement
- To determine soundness test of cement
- To determine the workability of fresh concrete by slump test
- To determine the workability of fresh concrete by compaction factor
- To determine the compressive strength of cube concrete specimen
- To determine the splitting strength of cylindrical concrete specimen
- To determine the flexural strength of concrete specimen
- To determine the young’s modulus, upper and lower yield (stress and toughness of the given material)
- Torsion test of given specimen
- Hardness test of given specimen
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