These labs are designed for conducting standard construction materials, structural, soil rocks, fluid mechanics, water and environmental tests.
Valuable for:
construction industries, municipalities
Testing available: Tests on Bitumen
oftening point , flash and fire point, and penetration
marshal test of asphalt material; Saybolt Furol Viscosity
density and bulk specific gravity of asphalt cores; Gyratory Compactor (to prepare asphalt concrete specimens)
Valuable for:
construction industries
municipalities
Testing available:
aggregate, cement, admixtures, additive materials, fresh concrete (Lab trial mix, concrete flow, slump of Hydraulic-cement concrete, unit weight test, Air content test, Temperature test, casting the specimen) and hardened concrete( Rebound Number of Hardened Concrete, Ultrasonic NDT, Compressive Strength of Concrete Specimens, Tensile and Flexural Strength, Obtaining and Testing Drilled Cores of Concrete).
structural components and assemblies (under static and dynamic loads) including beams, columns, slabs, trusses, and more; steel bars (tensile test).
Valuable for:
educational organizations,
oil/gas industries, construction industries
Testing available:
description and identification of soils (visual manual procedure).;moisture content of soil (convention and microwave oven methods);the specific gravity of soil; the liquid limit, plastic limit and plasticity index of soil; grain size analysis of soil;
determining moisture-unit weight relations of soil (compaction test);
determining the density and unit, weight relations of soil in-place by rubber balloon method and sand-cone method;
permeability test for fine grained (fallinghead test) and granular soils; constant head test and percolation tests;
seepage modeling and measurements of selected geotechnical problems;
consolidation test (1-D and Rowe cell); unconfined compression test; direct shear test;
experiments in soil dynamics using MTS triaxial facility.
strength index tests (Point Load Index test on Rocks);Terzaghi plate load test;
in-situ testing (sampling using augers, vane borer, cone pentrometer, in-situ shear vane),
electrical resistivity;cone penetration tests;
apparent porosity, specific gravity, and degree of saturation of rocks;
Valuable for:
educational organizations
oil/gas industries, construction industries
municipalities
Testing available:
Monitoring of meteorological data (wind velocity, wind direction, relative humidity, wet bulb temperature, barometric pressure etc).
gravimetric analysis for the determination of total solids and suspended solids in water sample
pH of water/wastewater sample; color, odor and conductivity, salinity of water sample; turbidity of water sample using turbidity meter;dissolved oxygen in wastewater;
indicator organisms (coliform bacteria in contaminated water sample);
quality of swimming pool water;
quality of sewage/effluents; sludge volume index;
water treatment by sand filtration; water treatment by reverse osmosis method;
water treatment by activated sludge process;
quality of air (in-door and out-door); measuring CO, CO2, CH4, O2, etc
continuous monitoring of safety, purity and quality of water/soil using HACH DR5000 Spectrophotometer.
BOD test HACH BOD- Trak-II Apparatus. ;COD test using Palintest COD tester.
optimum coagulant dosage ( jar test).;analysis of water samples using water quality checker
Valuable for:
educational organizations
oil/gas industries, construction industries
municipalitiesseismic refraction, Spatial Analysis of Surface waves using Geophysical Equipment with Geode and Geophones.
Testing available:
subsurface exploration using boring kit, prospecting kit, and drilling machine.
determination of pore pressure in the field using piezometers;
field determination of soil pressure using total earth load cells.
Valuable for:
educational organizations
oil/gas industries, construction industries
municipalities
Testing available:
Seismic study using accelerometers, seismographs and strong motion recorders.
Valuable for:
construction industries
municipalities
Testing available:
Field work for pacing and chaining
hain surveying;tape measurements; electronic distance measurement
differential level operations; profile leveling
horizontal angles measurement;vertical angles measurement
closed field traverse;measurement of latitude and longitude
mapping by coordinates.
Valuable for
educational institutions
Testing available:
Properties of fluids; fluid pressure measurement; center of pressure; flow visualization; free and forced vortices experiments; verification of Bernoulli's equation; impact of jet experiment; Osborne Reynolds experiment; flow in closed conduits. open channel flow experiments, wind tunnel.
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