Lab Facilities

Departmental Labs

The department has the following well-equipped laboratories with the latest and testing machinery, which meet the academic needs of students and teachers as well as the professional needs of the government and private organizations.

Moreover, Civil Engineering Department in collaboration with National Engineering Services of Pakistan (NESPAK) has established a standard base line at the University Campus, which is used for calibration of surveying equipment/instruments for various surveying organizations.

List of Equipment in Laboratories

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Universal Testing Machines

2

2.      

Hydraulic Jacks

1

3.      

Reaction Frames

1

4.      

Friction Apparatus

1

5.      

Principle of Moments Apparatus

1

6.      

Tie and Jib Crane 

1

7.      

Concurrent Force System apparatus

1

8.      

Apparatus for beam Reactions

1

9.      

Beams with strain gauges of strain rosettes

1

10.   

Unsymmetrical Bending Apparatus

Shear Center Apparatus

1

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

100 Ton compression testing machine

1

2.      

Amsler UTM (200 ton)

1

3.      

Denison compression testing machine (300 tons)

1

4.      

Avery weighing Machine

1

5.      

Concrete Mixing machine

1

6.      

Vibrating table for compaction

1

7.      

Concrete permeability apparatus

1

8.      

Concrete cutter

1

9.      

Separator

1

10.   

Slump Test Apparatus

2

11.   

Compacting Factor Test Apparatus

1

12.   

Vebe Test Apparatus

1

13.   

Standard sieves set

1

14.   

Locally manufactured 3D printer

1

15.   

Temperature controlled chamber

1

16.   

High speed mortar mixer

1

17.   

Digital length comparator

1

18.   

Special ASR molds

14

19.   

Locally manufactured environmental chamber

1

20.   

Concrete Rebar scanner

1

21.   

Digital Schmidt Hammer

1

22.   

Ultrasonic pulse velocity apparatus

2

 Sr. No.

Equipment/Machine

No. of workstation

1

10-ton Buckton Universal Testing Machine

1

2

50-ton Denison Universal Testing Machine

1

3

Avery Torsion Testing Machine

1

4

Charpy’s Impact Testing Machine

1

5

100-ton Buckton Universal Testing Machine

1

6

Creep Testing Machine

1

7

500kN Shimadzu Universal Testing Machine

1

8

Shimadzu Brinell Hardness Testing Machine

1

9

Avery Rockwell Hardness Testing Machine

1

10

Shimadzu Rockwell Hardness Testing Machine

1

11

30 kN Universal Testing Machine

1

12

Brinell Hardness Testing Machine

1

13

Digital Load Cell of 100 Ton Capacity

1

14

Vernier Caliper

4

15

Dial Gauge

4

16

Screw Gauge

4

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Tri-axial Testing Machine

1

2.      

Direct Shear machine

2

3.      

Speedy Moisture Meter

2

4.      

Digital Balance

4

5.      

Mechanical Pulverizer

1

6.      

Ro-Type Sieve Shaker

2

7.      

Hydraulic Jack

1

8.      

Electric Ovens

1

9.      

Sand-Cone Apparatus

4

10.   

Core-Cutter Apparatus

4

11.   

Relative Density Testing Machine

1

12.   

Sample Extruder

2

13.   

Specimen Cutting Machine

1

14.   

Expansion Index Test Apparatus

3

15.   

Odometer Test Apparatus

3

16.   

Hydrometer

4

17.   

Compaction Test Apparatus

6

18.   

Automatic Compaction Machine

2

19.   

Unconfined Compression Testing Machine

4

20.   

Sieve Sets

2

21.   

Atterberg’s Limit Apparatus

8

22.   

CBR testing machine

1

23.   

Plate load test apparatus

1

24.   

SPT apparatus

1

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Los Angeles Abrasion testing machine

1

2.      

Bitumen penetration testing apparatus

1

3.      

Oven

1

4.      

Bitumen viscosity test apparatus

1

5.      

Bitumen ductility apparatus

1

6.      

Skid resistance tester

1

7.      

Marshall machine

1

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Weather station

1

2.      

Ground water resistivity apparatus

1

3.      

Cavitation apparatus

1

4.      

Glass Side Tilting Flume (Figure 7.11)

1

5.      

Francis Reaction Turbine

1

6.      

Pelton Wheel with computer aided software

1

7.      

Reaction Turbine with computer aided software

1

8.      

Turgo Turbine

1

9.      

Double Stage Centrifugal Pump

1

10.   

Double Acting Reciprocating Pump

1

11.   

Hydraulic Bench

1

12.   

Hydrostatic Pressure Apparatus

1

13.   

Metacentric Height Apparatus

1

14.   

Impact of Jet Apparatus

1

15.   

Orifice Meter

1

16.   

Fluid Friction Apparatus

1

17.   

Water Hammer Apparatus

1

18.   

Multi Pump Test Rig

1

19.   

Adjustable bed flow channel

1

20.   

Laminar Flow Table

1

21.   

Notches and Venturimeters

1

22.   

Hydraulic Flow Meter

1

23.   

Renould’s Apparatus

1

24.   

Dine’ Pressure Tube Anemometer

1

25.   

Single Stage Vacuum Pump

1

26.   

Double Stage Vacuum Pump

1

27.   

Electrical Analogy Apparatus

1

28.   

Redwood Viscometer

1

29.   

Horizontal Centrifugal Pump

1

30.   

Critical Velocity Apparatus

1

31.   

Reaction of Jet Apparatus

1

32.   

Bernoulli’ Apparatus

1

33.   

Forced Vortex Apparatus

1

34.   

Isuzu Adjust- Type Wet and dry Bulbs Thermometer

1

35.   

Isuzu Thermograph

1

36.   

Subsonic Wind Tunnel

1

37.   

Gurlay Current Meter

1

38.   

Sunshine Recorder

1

39.   

Precision Pressure Gauge Calibrator

1

40.   

Basic Hydrology System

1

41.   

Evaporation Pan with Hook Gauge

1

42.   

Aneroid Barometer

1

43.   

Non-Recording Rain and Snow Gauge

1

44.   

Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge

1

45.   

Evaporation Pan

1

46.   

Single Stage Centrifugal Pump

1

47.   

Tachometer

1

48.   

Armfield Kaplan Turbine and Axial Flow Pump

1

49.   

Reaction of Jets Apparatus along with Hook Gauge and Weir Tanks

1

  • More than 120 Computers (majority are Core i7 Processor with LCD screens & with LAN and Wifi cards)
  • Scanner
  • Laser Printer
  • Photo copier
  • Server
  • Multimedia 20 Nos.

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Drone (DJI Mini-2)

1

2.      

TOPCON DT-104 Transit Theodolite

8

3.      

Electronic Theodolite

10

4.      

Electronic Total Station

5

5.      

Auto Level

19

6.      

Prismatic Compass

12

7.      

Trough Compass

6

8.      

Levelling Staff

15

9.      

Differential GPS

1

10.   

Gyroscope

1

11.   

Wooden Trestle

12

12.   

Ranging rods and poles

35

13.   

Board for plane tabling

15

14.   

Measuring tapes

24

15.   

Alidade

12

16.   

Drawing U-Fork

10

17.   

Plumb Bob

10

18.   

Mallet

7

19.   

Pegs

100

The laboratory is equipped with a ANCO Engineers Inc, R-441, Uni-axial shake table, which has an area of 2×2 m, and a payload of four tons.

Sr. No.

Description of equipment

No. of workstation

1.      

Mortar mixer

1

2.      

Aggregate crusher

1

3.      

Manual Compression testing machine

1

4.      

Creep apparatus

1

Concrete Laboratory

Strength of Materials Laboratory

Test Floor Laboratory

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory

Transportation Engineering Laboratory

Hydraulics Engineering Laboratory