Facilities

Laboratories

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY

The Structural engineering and Concrete technology laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna is well equipped with modern analytical instruments and facilities to carry out simple as well as sophisticated experiments which support research and teaching activities in the structural and concrete technology fields.

The concrete laboratory equipments can be used in determining the physical properties of building construction materials like cement, fine and coarse aggregate and strength characteristics of cement mortar, plain cement concrete and reinforced cement concrete. These activities also include vibration studies of structure system using seismic accelerometer and data logger.

Lab-in-charge: Dr Koushik Roy; Email: koushik@iitp.ac.in

Some of the important laboratory equipments include:

  • Digital Compression Testing Machine (300 T).
  • Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus.
  • Aggregate Impact Test.
  • Ultrasonic Concrete Testing Machine.
  • Rebound Hammer.
  • Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System.
  • Air Entrainment meter for resistibility.
  • Vee-Bee Consistometer & Compacting Factor Apparatus for workability.
  • Air Permeability Apparatus.
  • Universal Testing Machine (Capacity- 60 tonnes)
  • Reaction Frame
  • Base Shaker
Digital Compression Testing Machine (300 T) Ultrasonic Concrete Testing Machine
Digital Compression Testing Machine (300 T) Ultrasonic Concrete Testing Machine

 

Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition<br /> System (small scale)
Aggregate Crushing Test Apparatus Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition
System (small scale)

 

Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System (large scale) Rebound Hammer
Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition
System (large scale)
Rebound Hammer

 

Universal Testing Machine Air Permeability Apparatus
Universal Testing Machine Air Permeability Apparatus

 

Aggregate Impact Test Experimental setup to find buckling of struts
Aggregate Impact Test Experimental setup to find buckling of struts

 

Experimental setup to find unsymmetrical bending and shear centre Experimental setup to find bending moment in portal fram
Experimental setup to find unsymmetrical bending and shear centre Experimental setup to find bending moment in portal fram
Experimental setup to find bending stress in beam Experimental setup of continuous and indeterminate beam
Experimental setup to find bending stress in beam Experimental setup of continuous and indeterminate beam

 

Experimental setup of suspension bridge Experimental setup of three pinned arch
Experimental setup of suspension bridge Experimental setup of three pinned arch

 

Reaction Frame Base Shaker
Reaction Frame Base Shaker

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering supports research, teaching and consultancy activities in the geotechnical field. It is well equipped with the most fundamental to the most sophisticated modern analytical instruments and facilities to carry out experiments which will help the students to understand the theoretical concepts and learn their applications in practical situation. These laboratory equipments can be used to determine the physical and engineering properties of soil. The physical properties include specific gravity, moisture content, density and consistency limits namely, liquid, plastic and shrinkage limits of soil. The engineering properties include permeability, consolidation, compressibility, shear strength and bearing capacity of soil.

Lab-in-charge: Dr. Arvind Kumar Jha; Email: jhaarvind@iitp.ac.in; Office No.: +91-06115-233-807 (Calling from outside IITP) 8807 (Calling from IITP);  Mobile No.: +91-8861556432

Jr. Tech Supt.: Md. Nurul Hasan; Email: nurul@iitp.ac.in, Tel: 06123208165

Some of these facilities are:

  • Fully Automatic Cyclic Triaxial Test Equipment for both static and dynamic loading.
  • Direct Shear Test Apparatus with Digital readouts.
  • Vane Shear Testing Equipment for cohesive soil.
  • Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus both in undisturbed and remoulded state of the soil.
  • Seismic Accelerometer and Data Acquisition System.
  • MASW Test Apparatus for evaluating the elastic condition (stiffness) of the ground.
  • Static Cone Penetration Testing Equipment for determining the resistance of soil and classification of soils.
  • Pile Integrity Test Apparatus for assessing the condition of piles.
  • California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus.
  • Liquefaction Tank
  • Automatic compactor
  • Universal permeability apparatus
  • Humidity and temperature apparatus
  • Static triaxial test apparatus
  • Sample extruder
  • Water potential measurement apparatus
  • Fredlund SWCC Device
  • Vibration Monitoring Apparatus
  • Cyclic Plate Load Test
  • Static cone penetromete.
Fully Automatic Cyclic Triaxial Test Direct Shear Test Apparatus with Digital readouts
Fully Automatic Cyclic Triaxial Test
Equipment
Direct Shear Test Apparatus with Digital readouts

 

Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus MASW Test Apparatus
Unconfined Compression Test Apparatus MASW Test Apparatus

 

Odeometer Pile Integrity Test Apparatus
Odeometer Pile Integrity Test Apparatus

 

Liquefaction Tank California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus
Liquefaction Tank California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus

 

Automatic compactor Universal permeability apparatus
Automatic compactor Universal permeability apparatus

 

Humidity and temperature apparatus Static triaxial test apparatus
Humidity and temperature apparatus Static triaxial test apparatus

 

Sample extruder Water potential measurement apparatus
Sample extruder Water potential measurement apparatus

 

Fredlund SWCC Device Vibration Monitoring Apparatus
Fredlund SWCC Device Vibration Monitoring Apparatus

 

Cyclic Plate Load Test Static cone penetrometer
Cyclic Plate Load Test Static cone penetrometer

 

Electrical Resistivity Meter Temperature controlled oedometer (In-house developed)
Electrical Resistivity Meter Temperature controlled oedometer (In-house developed)

 

Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING
Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING

 

CUTTING & GRINDING  MACHINE POINT LOAD TEST MACHINE
CUTTING & GRINDING MACHINE POINT LOAD TEST MACHINE

 

BRAZILLIAN TEST MACHINE POLISHING & LAPPING MACHINE
BRAZILLIAN TEST MACHINE POLISHING & LAPPING MACHINE

 

SLAKE DURABILITY TEST MACHINE ROCK PERMEABILITY TEST MACHINE
SLAKE DURABILITY TEST MACHINE ROCK PERMEABILITY TEST MACHINE

 

ROCK CLASSIFICATION HAMMER (N-TYPE) TRIAXIAL TESTING MACHINE
ROCK CLASSIFICATION HAMMER (N-TYPE) TRIAXIAL TESTING MACHINE

 

STATIC PLATE LOAD TEST FREEZE THAW CHAMBER
STATIC PLATE LOAD TEST FREEZE THAW CHAMBER

 

BIOSAFETY CABINET
BIOSAFETY CABINET

 

Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING
Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING

 

Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING
Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP) CORE CUTTING & DRILLING

TRANSPORTATION AND RAILWAY ENGINEERING LABORATORY

The Transportation Engineering Laboratory at IIT Patna is equipped with some of the modern instruments and facilities to carry out simple to sophisticated experiments which support research and teaching activities in the transportation field. Some of these

Lab-in-charge: Dr. Syed K K Hussaini; Email: hussaini@iitp.ac.in

Jr. Tech Supt.: Mr Shailendra Kumar Singh; Email: shail@iitp.ac.in, Tel: 06123028164

facilities are:

  • Gauges to conduct shape tests
  • Ductility testing apparatus
  • Bitumen penetrometer
  • Viscometer
  • Flash and fire point apparatus
  • Softening point apparatus
  • Deval’s abrasion apparatus
  • Marshall’s stability apparatus
  • Length gauge
  • Bitumen extractor
  • Oven
  • Sound level meter
  • Thickness gauge
  • Water bath
  • Trazer suite(traffic analyser)
  • Bump Integrator
Rotational Viscometer  Loss Angeles Test Apparatus
Rotational Viscometer Loss Angeles Test Apparatus

 

 Deval Abrasion Test Asphalt Theoretical Density Meter
Deval Abrasion Test Asphalt Theoretical Density Meter

 

Water Bath Ductility Test Apparatus
Water Bath Ductility Test Apparatus

 

 Merlin  Aggregate Impact Tester
Merlin Aggregate Impact Tester

 

Length gauge Bitumen extractor
Standard Penetrometer Apparatus Stripping Value Apparatus

 

Oven Bump Integrator
Oven Bump Integrator
Rolling Thin Film Oven Light Weight Deflectometer 6000 BLE
Rolling Thin Film Oven Light Weight Deflectometer 6000 BLE

 

Temperature IR Gun Temperature Sound Meter
Temperature IR Gun Temperature Sound Meter

 

Automatic Bitumen Penetrometer Digital Marshall Stability Apparatus
Automatic Bitumen Penetrometer Digital Marshall Stability Apparatus

 

Flakiness and Elongation Index High Performance Data Logger
Flakiness and Elongation Index High Performance Data Logger

 

Stabinger Viscometer 3000 Action Video Camera
Stabinger Viscometer 3000 Action Video Camera

 

Ring and Ball Apparatus (Softening Point) Flash and Fire point Apparatus
Ring and Ball Apparatus (Softening Point) Flash and Fire point Apparatus

 

Motorised Sieve Shaker Asphalt Mixer
Motorised Sieve Shaker Asphalt Mixer

 

Automatic Bitumen Compactor 4 Inch and 6 Inch Laser Speed Gun
Automatic Bitumen Compactor 4 Inch and 6 Inch Laser Speed Gun

 

5 Channel Signal Conditioner Benkelman Beam
5 Channel Signal Conditioner Benkelman Beam

 

Trazer suite (traffic analyzer software) Bitumen Extractor
Trazer suite (traffic analyzer software) Bitumen Extractor

 

Air compressor Bitumen Extractor
Air compressor Bitumen Extractor

 

Coring machine Cutting machine
Coring machine Cutting machine

 

DTS - 30 Four point bending machine
DTS - 30 Four point bending machine

 

Gyratory compactor Skid resistance tester
Gyratory compactor Skid resistance tester

 

Roller Compactor Environmental Chamber
Roller Compactor Environmental Chamber

 

ADAS DMS
ADAS DMS

 

GPS Inertial measurement unit
GPS Inertial measurement unit

 

LIDAR Video camera
LIDAR Video camera

 

Video V Box
Video V Box

RAILWAY ENGINEERING LABORATORY

The Railway Engineering Laboratory at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna works with a vision of developing the required design standards for constructing high-speed rail tracks in India. It is equipped with the state-of-the-art large-scale direct shear and large-scale pullout apparatus that are explicitly designed to study the behaviour of various rail track foundation interfaces under track operating conditions. The laboratory also has the large-scale rail track testing facility and the Large-scale railroad ballast permeability apparatus. The other goals of the laboratory are to assess the stability of the existing rail tracks and suggest suitable low-cost remedial solutions to allow the movement of semi high-speed trains, and devise strategies to effectively recycle the degraded ballast so that further quarrying of rock may be reduced.

Large-scale direct shear apparatus Large-scale pullout apparatus
Large-scale direct shear apparatus Large-scale pullout apparatus

 

Rail Track Testing Facility Large-scale Railroad Ballast Permeability
Rail Track Testing Facility Large-scale Railroad Ballast Permeability
Apparatus

 

GEOMATICS ENGINEERING LABORATORY

  • Total Station
  • Plane Table
  • Laser Distance meter
  • GPS
  • Dumpy Level
  • Prismatic Compass
  • Surveyor Compass
  • Auto Level
  • Electronic distance measurement
  • Electronic Theodolite
  • Differential Global Positioning System

Lab-in-charge: Dr. Syed K K Hussaini; Email: hussaini@iitp.ac.in

Jr. Tech Supt.: Mr Shailendra Kumar Singh; Email: shail@iitp.ac.in, Tel: 06123028164

Total Station Electronic Theodoloite
Total Station Electronic Theodoloite
Global positioning system Dumpy level
Global positioning system Dumpy level

 

Distometer Auto Level
Distometer Auto Level
Plane Table and accessories Planimeter
Plane Table and accessories Planimeter

 

Differential Global Positioning System Prismatic and Surveyor Compass
Differential Global Positioning System Prismatic and Surveyor Compass

 

Leica DGPS Lino L4 P1 Line Laser
Leica DGPS Lino L4 P1 Line Laser

 

Trimble DA2 GNSS Trimble DiNi level
Trimble DA2 GNSS Trimble DiNi level

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY

  • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS): Used for precise and accurate trace element determinations in liquid and solid samples, but other applications include isotopic determinations and speciation studies.
  • Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (Flame &Furnace): Quantitative determination of elements using the absorption of optical radiation by free atoms in the gaseous state.
  • Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer: Determination of total amount of carbon in organic compounds in liquid and solid samples.
  • Carbon hydrogen nitrogen sulfur (CHNS) analyzer: Used to determine the elemental concentrations in solid samples (Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen and Sulfur).
  • Ion Chromatography: Used for quantification of anions and cations by using conductivity detector.
  • Refrigerated Centrifuge: Used to separating molecules having different densities by spinning them in solution around an axis (in a centrifuge rotor) at high speed.
  • UV Visible Spectrophotometer: The instrument is use for light source to pass through a sample chamber and detects metal ions and organic compounds in sample.
  • Nanoparticle Tracking Analyzer with Zetasizer : For measuring of mainly poly dispersed particle with low conc.
  • Dynamic light scattering (DLS) particle size analyzer: For measuring particle size with high conc. and suitable for mono disperse particles.

Lab-in-charge: Dr. Subrata Hait; Email: shait@iitp.ac.in

Jr. Tech Supt.: Mr Deepak Singh; Email: sdeepak@iitp.ac.in, Tel: 06123028118

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) Agilent -7800 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (Flame &Furnace) Thermo Scientific -iCE3500
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) Agilent -7800 Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (Flame &Furnace) Thermo Scientific -iCE3500

 

Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer, IO Analytical –Aurora 1030 Carbon hydrogen nitrogen sulfur (CHNS) analyzer, LECO-Truespec micro
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer, IO Analytical –Aurora 1030 Carbon hydrogen nitrogen sulfur (CHNS) analyzer, LECO-Truespec micro

 

Ion Chromatography, Metrohm -882 Compact IC Plus Refrigerated Centrifuge, Eppendorf- 5804R
Ion Chromatography, Metrohm -882 Compact IC Plus Refrigerated Centrifuge, Eppendorf- 5804R

 

UV Visible Spectrophotometer , Thermo Scientific –Evolution 220 Malvern -Nanoparticle Tracking Analyzer (NS300)
UV Visible Spectrophotometer , Thermo Scientific –Evolution 220 Malvern -Nanoparticle Tracking Analyzer (NS300)

 

Malvern-Zeta sizer (ZS-90) DLS Particle size analyzer (Anton paar- Litesizer 500)
Malvern-Zeta sizer (ZS-90) DLS Particle size analyzer (Anton paar- Litesizer 500)

CAD LABORATORY

COMPUTATIONAL FACILITIES

Software available in the CAD laboratory:

STAAD-Pro
&
STAAD-Foundation

STAAD-Pro & STAAD-Foundation

ABAQUS
6.12

ABAQUS 6.12

AutoCAD
2015

AutoCAD 2015

Matlab
R2016a

Matlab R2016a

SAP2000
v16

SAP2000 v16

GeoStudio

GeoStudio

LISCAD

LISCAD

Plaxis 2D &
3D

Plaxis 2D & 3D

FLAC 3D &
2D

FLAC 3D & 2D

WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING LABORATORY

  • Floating body apparatus
  • Hydrostatic pressure measuring apparatus
  • Bernoulli's apparatus
  • Centrifugal pump
  • Venturimeter apparatus
  • Seepage Flow Apparatus
  • Orifice meter Apparatus
  • Losses In a Pipe System
  • Base Module Apparatus
  • Settling Velocity Apparatus
  • Reynolds Apparatus
  • Hydraulic Flume
  • Centrifugal Pump and Speed Sensor
  • Hydrograph after precipitation with speed Censor

Lab-in-charge: Dr. Om Prakash; Email: om.prakash@iitp.ac.in

Jr. Tech Supt.: Mr Amit Shankar Sant; Email: amitshankar@iitp.ac.in, Tel: 06123028159

Floating body apparatus Hydrostatic pressure measuring apparatus
Floating body apparatus Hydrostatic pressure measuring apparatus

 

Bernoullis apparatus Centrifugal pump
Bernoullis apparatus Centrifugal pump

 

Venturimeter Seepage Flow Apparatus
Venturimeter Seepage Flow Apparatus

 

Orifice meter Apparatus Losses in pipe system
Orifice meter Apparatus Losses in a pipe system

 

Base Module Apparatus Settling Velocity Apparatus
Base Module Apparatus Settling Velocity Apparatus

 

Reynolds Apparatus Hydraulic Flume
Reynolds Apparatus Hydraulic Flume

 

Centrifugal Pump and Speed Sensor Centrifugal Pump with speed Censor
Centrifugal Pump and Speed Sensor Hydrograph after precipitation with speed Censor