Mechanical Engineering - FACILITIES
Laboratories & Infrastructures
Laboratories & Infrastructures
A machine shop is the lifeblood of the mechanical engineering department, as it serves as its heart and soul. It includes different machining operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation, facing, turning, etc. The welding and foundry process sections provide hands-on experience to the students. Each laboratory has excellent infrastructure, and the students are trained in the laboratories listed below to enrich their practical skills.
LABORATORIES
- Engineering Practices Laboratory (Welding, Sheet Metal, Foundry and Fitting Shop)
- Machine Shop (Manufacturing Technology Laboratory I & II)
- Strength of Materials Laboratory
- Fluid Mechanics and Machinery Laboratory
- Thermal Engineering Laboratory
- Dynamics Laboratory
- Metrology and Measurements Laboratory
- Mechatronics Laboratory
- CAD/CAM Laboratory
MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
THERMAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Strength of Materials Laboratory
Dynamics Lab
This helps the students understand the concepts of mechanics and enhances their knowledge in vibration .The experiments related to the above topics are performed by the 6th semester mechanical students. The following are the experiments carried out by them.
- Undamped free vibration of single rotor system
- Undamped free vibration of equivalent spring mass system
- Dynamic balancing of different rotating masses on different panes
- Strain measurement using strain meter and strain gauges
- Whirling of shaft
- Forced vibration
- Study of cutting forces in lathe and milling tool dynamometers
Metallurgy Lab
The students can see the microstructures of various ferrous and non-ferrous alloys. This lab has facilities to conduct heat treatment experiments. This lab is being utililsed by mechanical engineering students. The following experiments can be conducted:
- Preparation of Specimen for Metallurgical Examination
- Study of Metallurgical Microscope
- Identification of Grey Cast Iron, Nodular Cast Iron, Plain Carbon Steel, Copper Alloy, Aluminum Alloy and High Speed Steel
- Heat Treatment of Plain Carbon Steel
- Hardening
- Tempering
- Normalizing
- Annealing
- Hardenability Test – Jominy -End Quench Test
- Micro structural Study of a steel Weldment
- Grain size measurement by Comparison with ASTM Cha
Fluid Mechanics & Machinery Lab
With the available facilities the following experiments can be conducted:
- Coefficient of Discharge of Rectangular Notch
- Coefficient of Discharge of Venturimeter
- Coefficient of Discharge of Orifice Meter
- Verification of Bernoullis Theorem
- Head Loss due to Friction in Pipes
- Determination of Metacentric Height for War Ship and Cargo Ship
- Force of Jet Impinging on a Series of Vanes
- Flow Through Open Orifice Determination of Cd, Cc, Cv
- Calibration of Mouth Piece Constant and Variable Head Method
- Performance Test on Reciprocating Pump
- Performance Test on Submersible Pump
- Performance Test on Centrifugal Pump
- Performance Test on Multi Stage Centrifugal Pump
- Performance Test on Jet Pump
- Performance Test on Gear Pump
- Performance Test on Pelton Wheel Turbine
- Performance Test on Francis Turbine
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Thermal Engineering Lab
Experiments conducted:
- Heat balance test on single cylinder diesel engine by air flow measurement
- Heat balance test on twin cylinder diesel engine by exhaust gas calorimeter method
- Performance test on vapour compression refrigeration system
- Performance test on air conditioning system
- Heat transfer coefficient natural convection
- Thermal conductivity of liquids, metals
- Heat transfer coefficient forced convection
- Performance test on heat exchangers parallel flow and counter flow
- Determination of dryness fraction of steam using steam calorimeter
- Heat balance test on steam boiler
- Performance test on steam condenser, steam turbine, steam generator
- Heating value of solid ,liquid and gaseous fuels
- Exhaust gas analysis using AVL415 variable sampling smoke meter
- Performance test for various compression ratios and vartious ignition timings using AVL engine
Fluid Mechanics & Machinery Lab
With the available facilities the following experiments can be conducted:
- Coefficient of Discharge of Rectangular Notch
- Coefficient of Discharge of Venturimeter
- Coefficient of Discharge of Orifice Meter
- Verification of Bernoullis Theorem
- Head Loss due to Friction in Pipes
- Determination of Metacentric Height for War Ship and Cargo Ship
- Force of Jet Impinging on a Series of Vanes
- Flow Through Open Orifice Determination of Cd, Cc, Cv
- Calibration of Mouth Piece Constant and Variable Head Method
- Performance Test on Reciprocating Pump
- Performance Test on Submersible Pump
- Performance Test on Centrifugal Pump
- Performance Test on Multi Stage Centrifugal Pump
- Performance Test on Jet Pump
- Performance Test on Gear Pump
- Performance Test on Pelton Wheel Turbine
- Performance Test on Francis Turbine
Thermal Engineering Lab
Experiments conducted:
- Heat balance test on single cylinder diesel engine by air flow measurement
- Heat balance test on twin cylinder diesel engine by exhaust gas calorimeter method
- Performance test on vapour compression refrigeration system
- Performance test on air conditioning system
- Heat transfer coefficient natural convection
- Thermal conductivity of liquids, metals
- Heat transfer coefficient forced convection
- Performance test on heat exchangers parallel flow and counter flow
- Determination of dryness fraction of steam using steam calorimeter
- Heat balance test on steam boiler
- Performance test on steam condenser, steam turbine, steam generator
- Heating value of solid ,liquid and gaseous fuels
- Exhaust gas analysis using AVL415 variable sampling smoke meter
- Performance test for various compression ratios and vartious ignition timings using AVL engine
Strength of Materials
This laboratory consists of various testing machines to cater to the students needs. Also consultancy works are undertaken for various construction materials. List of experiments:
- Tension test on steel rod/wire
- Compression test on bricks/concreter cubes
- Bending test on wood
- Hardness test on various metals
- Spring tests
- Fatigue test
- Deflection test
- Load and strain measurement
