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Concrete and Highway Materials Lab

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The Concrete and Highway Materials lab is established to train students to carry out tests on common construction materials such as concrete, cement, Bitumen etc. The tests are conducted to determine the engineering properties in terms of strength, strain, fatigue, creep, elasticity, stiffness durability, and workability. Major equipment includes compression testing machine, , standard test sieves (coarse and fine sets) with sieve shaking machine, (slump test, compaction factor and Vee-Bee time apparatus), Vicat and Le chatlier apparatus.

S.NO Name of Equipment Purpose of Equipment
1 Compression Testing machine Compressive and tensile Strength of Cube
2 Flexure Testing machine Flexure Strength of beam
3 Vee bee consistometer Workbility of Concrete
4 Compaction Factor Workbility of Concrete
5 Tile abrasion Abrasion ratio
6 Drum Mixer Mixing of Concrete
7 Sieve Shaker Shaking of Aggregate
8 Vicat Appratus Consistency of cement
9 Slump Cone Workbility of Concrete
10 Water bath For hot water
11 Le chatlier principle Check Soundness of cement