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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


No.

Code

Course Title

Laboratory Name

1

CE 212

Plane Surveying

Surveying Laboratory

2

CE 205

Structural Materials

Materials Laboratory

3

CE 231

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

4

CE 307

Properties and Testing of Concrete

Concrete Laboratory

5

CE 354

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

Soil Mechanics Laboratory












: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

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