Department Of
CIVIL ENGINEERING (CE)
Transportation Engineerineering Laboratory

Overview

This laboratory is situated on the ground floor of the Old Academic Building and has a floor area of about 2,000 sqft. This laboratory is providing testing, services in diverse areas including quality control and testing of highway materials such as aggregates, bitumen etc. The lab is equipped with Los Angeles abrasion machine, compression machine (for ACV/TFV), AIV machine, Marshall compactor, Marshall tester, Marshall mixer with isomantle heater, penetrometer, ductilometer, cleveland open cup (for F&F Points), softening point test set, dynamic viscometer and many more. Tests like sieve analysis for coarse and fine aggregate, unit wt., void ratio, porosity, Moh. Hardness are routinely carried out in this lab.