Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

Facilities

Laboratories

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

General Information

The Structural engineering and Concrete technology laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna is well equipped with modern analytical instruments and facilities to carry out simple as well as sophisticated experiments which support research and teaching activities in the structural and concrete technology fields.

The concrete laboratory equipments can be used in determining the physical properties of building construction materials like cement, fine and coarse aggregate and strength characteristics of cement mortar, plain cement concrete and reinforced cement concrete. These activities also include vibration studies of structure system using seismic accelerometer and data logger.

Some of the important laboratory equipments include:

Digital Compression Testing Machine (300 T).
Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus.
Aggregate Impact Test.
Ultrasonic Concrete Testing Machine.
Rebound Hammer.
Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System.
Air Entrainment meter for resistibility.
Vee-Bee Consistometer & Compacting Factor Apparatus for workability.
Air Permeability Apparatus.
Universal Testing Machine (Capacity- 60 tonnes)
Reaction Frame
Base Shaker

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Digital Compression Testing Machine (300 T).	Ultrasonic Concrete Testing Machine
Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus
Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System (small scale)	Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System (large scale)
Rebound Hammer	Universal Testing Machine
Air Permeability Apparatus	Aggregate Impact Test
Experimental setup to find buckling of struts	Experimental setup to find unsymmetrical bending and shear centre
Experimental setup to find bending stress in beam
Experimental setup of continuous and indeterminate beam
Experimental setup of three pinned arch	Reaction Frame
Base Shaker

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering supports research, teaching and consultancy activities in the geotechnical field. It is well equipped with the most fundamental to the most sophisticated modern analytical instruments and facilities to carry out experiments which will help the students to understand the theoretical concepts and learn their applications in practical situation. These laboratory equipments can be used to determine the physical and engineering properties of soil. The physical properties include specific gravity, moisture content, density and consistency limits namely, liquid, plastic and shrinkage limits of soil. The engineering properties include permeability, consolidation, compressibility, shear strength and bearing capacity of soil.

Some of these facilities are:

Fully Automatic Cyclic Triaxial Test Equipment for both static and dynamic loading.
Direct Shear Test Apparatus with Digital readouts.
Vane Shear Testing Equipment for cohesive soil.
Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus both in undisturbed and remoulded state of the soil.
Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System.
MASW Test Apparatus for evaluating the elastic condition (stiffness) of the ground.
Static Cone Penetration Testing Equipment for determining the resistance of soil and classification of soils.
Pile Integrity Test Apparatus for assessing the condition of piles.
California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus.
Liquefaction Tank
Automatic compactor
Universal permeability apparatus
Humidity and temperature apparatus
Static triaxial test apparatus
Sample extruder
Water potential measurement apparatus
Fredlund SWCC Device
Vibration Monitoring Apparatus
Cyclic Plate Load Test
Static cone penetrometer

Fully Automatic Cyclic Triaxial Test Equipment	Direct Shear Test Apparatus with Digital readouts
Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus	MASW Test Apparatus
Odeometer	Pile Integrity Test Apparatus
Liquefaction Tank	California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus
Automatic compactor	Universal permeability apparatus
Humidity and temperature apparatus	Static triaxial test apparatus
Sample extruder	Water potential measurement apparatus
Fredlund SWCC Device	/photo/Vibration_Monitoring_Apparatus.jpg Vibration Monitoring Apparatus
Cyclic Plate Load Test	Static cone penetrometer