Civil Engineering Laboratories 

:Objectives

Laboratory plays an extremely important role in civil engineering education. The undergraduate courses are supplemented with an extensive laboratory work in order to furnish the student with a sufficient experimental experience in various fields of civil engineering through the use of the most modern techniques of measurements, instrumentations and analysis.

:The department has a number of laboratories in the fields of Civil Engineering which include

Plane Surveying Laboratory-

Materials Laboratory-

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory-

Concrete Laboratory-

Soil Mechanics Laboratory-

List of Laboratories’ courses

:These laboratories comprise five main parts that cover the following subjects of Plan-D curriculum

:The topics of each course are covered in the following sections according to the course specification of each laboratory

Topics of Plane Surveying Laboratory (CE 212)

-Pacing a distance

-Taping Across Obstacles

-Levelling

-Profile Levelling using Automatic Level

-Leveling using digital Level

-Angles measurement with digital theodolite

-Angles measurement using Total Station

-Distance measurement using Total Station

-Traversing with Total Station

-Computer Applications in plane surveying

Fig. 1: Plane Surveying Laboratory

Topics of Materials Laboratory (CE 205)

-Tension

-Compression

-Bending

-Shear

-Hardness

-Impact

-Nondestructive tests

Fig. 2: Materials Laboratory

Topics of Fluid Mechanice Laboratory (CE 231)

Temperature and atmospheric pressure-

Specific gravity and surface tension-

Hydrostatic pressure-

Orifice flow, Coefficient of velocity-

Coefficient of discharge-

Flow over weirs-

Reynolds number-

Bernoulli’s theorem-

Pizometric tubes-

Ventury meters-

Pitot tube-

Fluid friction and coefficient of friction in pipes-

Fig. 3: Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Topics of Concrete Laboratory (CE 307)

Cement tests-

Aggregate tests-

Fresh concrete tests-

Hardened concrete tests-

Mixing water tests-

Fig. 4: Concrete Laboratory

Topics of Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory (CE 354)

Relative density-

Soil indices-

Classifications and identification of soils-

Permeability-

Soil compaction-

Unconfined strength-

Soil consolidation-

Shear strength-

Fig. 5: Geotechnical and Highway Engineering Laboratory