JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• Make measurements of different strains, stress and elastic properties of materials used in Civil Engineering.
• Provide physical observations to complement concepts learnt
• Introduce experimental procedures and common measurement instruments, equipment, devices.
• Exposure to a variety of established material testing procedures and techniques
• Different methods of evaluation and inferences drawn from observations

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

• Configure & Operate a data acquisition system using various testing machines of solid materials
• Compute and Analyze engineering values (e.g. stress or strain) from laboratory measurements.
• Write a technical laboratory report .

List of Experiments:

• 1. Tension test
• 2. Bending test on (Steel / Wood) Cantilever beam.
• 3. Bending test on simple support beam.
• 4. Torsion test
• 5. Hardness test
• 6. Spring test
• 7. Compression test on wood or concrete
• 8. Impact test
• 9. Shear test
• 10. Verification of Maxwell’s Reciprocal theorem on beams.
• 11. Use of electrical resistance strain gauges
• 12. Continuous beam – deflection test. R18 B.TECH CIVIL ENGG.