The Department of Civil Engineering in association with ICI SAINTGITS student chapter conducted the programme – TRAIN the TRAINERS – a training session for all the faculties of the civil engineering department. The programme aims to give training of the latest laboratory equipment of Civil labs. The programme was coordinated by the ICI staff-in-charge, Asst. Prof. Pinky Merin Philip and the corresponding lab in-charges took a hands-on session on the advanced and sophisticated equipment in the labs. The details of session are as follows:
- GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Date: 24th February 2023
Time: 2.30pm
The session was handled by GT lab in-charge Er. Hanna Paul. The session mainly focused on the working of latest equipment like dew point potentiometer, triaxial apparatus and automatic direct shear apparatus. She also discussed the importance of a new research area in the geotechnical field – unsaturated soil mechanics and the facilities available in the lab for the same research area.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Date: 27th February 2023
Time: 9.30am
The session on EE lab was handled by the lab in-charge Er. Arun G Sankar. The session focused on the working of ozone generator, spectrometer, working of flocculator and turbidimeter. Also, the lab in-charge explained the facilities and experiments available for research and consultancy works.
3. SURVEYING LABORATORY
Date: 27th February 2023
Time: 2.30pm
The surveying session handled by the lab in-charge Er. Vincy Koshy mainly focused on the Total Station Survey. The session provided hands-on training on the various steps involved in total station like centring, levelling, resection and focusing.
4. TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING LABORATORY
Date: 28th February 2023
Time: 10.30pm
The session was handled by the lab in-charge Er. Jithin Kurian Andrews and Dr. Susan Rose. The session focused on the working of wheel tracker, MERLIN, Benkelman deflectometer and dynamic cone penetrometer. The lab in-charge explained the various research and consultancy works carried out in the lab.
5. MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY I (CONCRETE TESTING LABORATORY)
Date: 28th February 2023
Time: 2.00pm
The session was handled by the lab in-charge Er. Sunitha A Daniel. The session focused on the mix design procedure as per new codal provision.
6. MATERIAL TESTING LABORATORY II (STRENGTH OF MATERIALS LABORATORY)
Date: 1st March 2023
Time: 4.00pm
The session was handled by the lab in-charge Er. Lakshmi P. The session was on the hands-on training on various experiments carried out using universal testing machine (UTM) like tension test on steel, flexural strength on wooden beam and double shear test.
