Structural Engineering Laboratory

Located in Building 15, it is a laboratory where structural elements materials testing is performed including concrete compressive strength test as well as steel bending and steel tensile strength test. Currently it is being used as a testing laboratory for post graduate researchers as well as a commercial material testing for the community.

Here are few typical equipment/machineries  

• Digital concrete rebound hammer (and analog)
• Ultrasonic Pulse Analyzer
• Microcomputer Controlled Universal testing machine (UTM)
• Automatic Compressing Machine
• Advantest 9
• Cold bend testing machine
• Muffle furnace
• Programmable accelerated concrete curing tank
• Concrete water impermeability

Some equipment details
Machine name: Microcomputer Controlled Universal testing machine (UTM)

Purpose: Performs a wide range of tensile and compressive tests along with bending of different materials like steel concrete and timber.

Typical test performed
The following is a list of few typical tests performed in this Laboratory

• Steel bending test
• Steel tensile test
• Concrete Permeability
• Compressive Strength of HCB
• Compressive Strength Concrete
• Concrete Tensile test (Split)
• Concrete hammer rebound test
• determination of hydraulic axial shrinkage on concrete beams

 
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Contact Person
Mr. Afework Limenh
Laboratory Technical Assistant
Email: afework.lem@gmail.com