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Civil Engineering

A well-equipped materials testing laboratory is available for developing design criteria and evaluating various types of building materials. The laboratory includes facilities for performing all kinds of tests on concrete and bituminous mixes.

 

Courses using the Lab

CIVE 240: Surveying

CIVE 321L: Construction Materials Lab

CIVE 423: Soil Mechanics

CIVE 314: Concrete I

CIVE 415: Concrete II 

 

Major Equipment

  1. Los Angeles Abrasion Test Unit
  2. Shrinkage Measurement Unit
  3. Vicat Test Unit
  4. Unconfined Compressive Strength of Cohesive Soils Unit
  5. California Bearing Ratio of Laboratory-Compacted Soils Unit
  6. Direct/Residual Shear Test Apparatus
  7. Universal Automatic Flexural and Compression Testing Machine
  8. Air Pressure Meter
  9. Consolidation Apparatus: Odometer

 

Experiments

  1. Specific Gravity and Absorption of Coarse and fine Aggregate Experiments
  2. Bulk Unit Weight and Voids in Aggregate Experiments
  3. Sieve Analysis of Coarse and Fine Aggregates
  4. Mixing Concrete and Slump Test of Freshly Mixed Concrete Experiments
  5. Compressive Strength of Concrete unit
  6. Compressive Strength and Density of Concrete Masonry Units/Prism
  7. Standard and Modified Proctor Compaction Test of Soil Experiments
  8. Liquid and Plastic Limits of Soil Experiments
  9. Shrinkage Measurement
  10. Temperature Effect Experiments
  11. Soil Consolidation Test
  12. Direct Shear Test
  13. Entrained Air Measurement in Fresh Mix Concrete

 

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