MAJOR FACILTIES AVAILABLE IN LABORATORIES FOR RESEARCH

Civil Engineering Department

• Beam Load Frame of 100t capacity for testing beams up to 3m span.
• Column Load Frame of 100 t capacity for testing columns up to 2m height with provisions for axial and lateral loadings.
• Special microprocessor controlled U.T.M. of 100t capacity
• Facilities for accelerated corrosion test and Macrocell corrosion studies.
• Facilities for conducting bond strength tests on rebars in RCC members.
• Testing facilities for Self Compacting Concerete & other concrete mixes.
• Advanced Tri-axial shear strength test equipment with pore pressure measuring unit
• Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
• Finite Element Software FEFLOW & MODFLOW for Groundwater Contamination/Flow modeling
• Finite Element Packages for modeling, analysis and design of structural systems such as ANSYS / NISA / MATLAN | B / CADPRO / STADDPRO / COSMOS-M
• Project Management package PRIMAVERA
• ArcGIS 9.3. Software tool to compile, author, analyze, map and publish geographic information and knowledge which includes Arc View, Arc Editor and ArcInfo.
• Total station & GPS
• Field testing of soil for sub grade modulus, shear strength etc.
• Prestressing Bed
• Materials testing facilities for hardness, toughness, abrasion, attrition, fineness etc.

Mechanical Engineering Department

• CNC Turning Center and Vertical Machining Center for machining experiments
• CAM softwares including Master Cam
• Vibration sensor, Acoustic Emission sensor and vibration shaker
• High speed digital storage oscilloscope with GPIB interface for data acquisition
• Versamax PLC for automation with necessary software
• Load cells & strain gauge indicators
• Pin on disc set up, salt spray apparatus and semi micro balance for wear and corrosion testing
• Image analyzer with CCD camera for microstructure analysis
• Tool makers microscope and Coordinate measuring machine
• Surface roughness tester
• Vision system with camera, hardware and software
• Data Acquisition System and Exhaust Gas Analyzer for engine testing
• Modelling and simulation packages for CAD including Cosmos, Ansys, Quest, Catia, I-Deas, Hypermesh, Fluent, Altier Hyper Works with L.S. Dyna, MSC Adams, Radioss, etc.
• High end Sunultra workstations (10 nos) and Sinfire X4200 server for CAD applications

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Power System Transient Studies – Over Voltage, Harmonics
• Power System Design – Substation, Grounding, Insulation Co-ordinations.
• Power Quality – Harmonic Mitigation.
• Power Evacuation Studies for Large Capacity Power Plants
• Optimal location and sizing of capacitor banks in EHV grids and Distribution systems for loss minimization. • Reactive power compensation studies for grid connected wind farms.
• Stability enhancement in grids for small signal stability and transient stability problems.
• Optimal provision of ancillary services like Reactive Power Support and Transmission loss in Restructure Power Systems.
• Voltage stability enhancement in Power Grid using optimal placement of FACTS devices.
• Harmonic Analyzer
  – upto 100th Harmonic and Toral Harmonic Distortion.
• Electroporator – Application of High Voltage Pulses for Life Science Research Projects.
• Characterization and Analysis of Outdoor Polymeric Insulators – Tracing Resistance, Dielectric Strength, Surface and Volume Resistivity, Comparative Tracking Index etc.
• Online Performance Characteristics and Analysis of DC and AC Drives
• Design and Analysis of 3-phase inverter drives.
• Power Electronics and Drives. – Modeling, Analysis, Simulation and Prototype of Power Electronic Devices, Electrical Machines and Drives.
• Software Packages – including EUROSTAG, MAGNET, PSPICE, PSCAD, CASPOC, FEADMOS, PSIM, MATHCAD, MATLAB, LABVIEW, TAP, ANSYS, FEA, AU Power Lab, PSAT, GAMS, AUTOCAD etc.

Electronics and Communication Engineering

• 500 MHz Spectrum Analyzer
• Digital Sorage Oscilloscope with builtin printer
• Spectrum Analyser
• ISDN, Delta Mod and Demod, Fiber Optic Trainer System
• Matlab Release 11.1 with various toolbox
• Agilent Mixed Signal Oscilloscope 100 MHz
• Fiber Optic Trainer
• VLSI – Software – MODELSIM
• Universal FPGA Development Station
• ADSP 2106 Floating Point SK
• Mathcad Full range software
• Antenna Trainer with software
• Antenna Trainer Base Unit
• Agilent Microwave Power Meter
• Agilent Power Sensors
• VLSI Tanner Tools – 2 User Licence
• Simutag with Matlab
• DSO
• Microwave Integrated Circuit setup
• 100 MHz CRO
• IE3D Antenna Simulation Software – 2 User license
• Matlab Release 14.0 with toolbox
• Multipurpose lab system (Agilent make)
• MDSPICE MIC Simulation Software
• Microwind Transistor Level Spice Modeling Software-VLSI layout
• Simulator tool
• Mentor graphics – HEP1 Pack (nano meter design) – license
• IAR embedded work bench

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

• Distributed Control System (DCS)
• Three Tank Interacting Level Process with Closed loop Control Setup
• Two interacting conical tank Systems setup
• pH Neutralization setup
• PLCs, SCADA, Multi function calibrator
• Combustion control of utility boiler
• Level, Pressure, Flow, and Temperature Control process
• Loop simulator for flow, pressure, temperature, viscosity, level process.
• Cascade control trainer
• Control valve with and without positioner
• Intelligent viscous fluid flow process
• Process simulators
• MATLAB
• LABVIEW

Computer Science, Information Technology and Computer Applications

• Qualnet
• Globus
• Glowsim
• NS2
• Websphere
• Dream Viewer
• Adobe – Photoshop
• Oracle
• IBM DB2
• Developer 2000

Polymer Technology

• Auto Clave Unit 2 Litres
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
• FTIR
• Variable Temperature Photo/Electrical Conductivity Measurement Setup
• Electronic Balance.
• Photo Resist Spinner (Spin coating unit)
• Dielectric Strength Tester
• Coating formulation unit Ultrasonic cleaner & san mill
• TGA/DTA instrument
• Blown film attachment with single screw extruder
• Hot two roll mill
• Smoke Density Apparatus
• Critical Oxygen Index Unit
• Moldex software

Physics

• Q switched High Energy Nd :YAG (850 mJ)
• EPM 2000 Dual channel power/Energy meter with sensor heads I and II.
• OSM2 Series Spectrometer
• Multipurpose Lab Station (Agilent)
• Arbitrary Waveform Generator (20 MHz)
• Multi-frequency Ultrosonic Interferometer Research type (1-2MHz)

Chemistry

• Gas Chromatograph
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
• Spectrofluorimeter
• Cyclic voltametry
• Filament Winding Machine
• Testing Frame to analyze Flexural Strength
• Flexural Endurance Tester
• Electronic Balance
• Vacuum Oven & Vacuum Pump
• Hot Air Oven
• Vacuum Pump
• Thermostat 2 Nos.

Polymer Nano Technology Centre

Polymer Nano Technology lab has the following facilities for carrying out research

Polymer Nano technology Centre – Material Preparation Lab

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Polymer Nano technology Centre – Material Testing Lab

Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA) unit of SEIKO model TG/DTA 6200. Used to measure high temperature transistions and decomposition peak values. Samples like powder, film, liquids, and composites material scan be tested using TGA.

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