Structures and Construction Material Laboratory

The structures and construction materials lab, with its state-of-the-art equipment, covers practical aspects of destructive and non-destructive testing of construction materials such as hardened concrete, steel and masonry and the assessment of their mechanical properties. It also provides facilities for testing aggregate, cement, admixtures, additive materials and fresh concrete, as well as for testing of structural components and assemblies (under static and dynamic loads) including beams, columns, slabs, trusses, etc.

Major Equipment in the Lab

• Instron 2500 kN static and dynamic Universal Testing Machine
• Shake table
• Instron 100 KN static and dynamic Universal Testing Machines
• Data acquisition system along with LVDT’s and strain gages
•  Los Angeles abrasion machine
• Aggregate crushing value apparatus
• Buoyancy balance, concrete mixer
• Air content meter, flow table
• 3000 kN MTS Concrete crushing machine
• Schmidt hammer
• Micro covermeter
• Tico ultrasonic equipment
• Drying ovens
• Various equipment for high performance concrete testing
• Vicat’s apparatus
• ISAT apparatus
• Potentiostat
• RCP apparatus and air permeability apparatus.