A shared workshop for the first and second semester students in all engineering courses, it enables learn about basic mechanical operations including fitting, carpentry, foundry and smithy. Training in these basic trades helps foster creative skills for these future engineers.
This laboratory provides students practical knowledge in the fundamental principles of Fluid Mechanics. Students conduct studies on various pipe fittings, valves, gauges, water meter/current meter. They study the stability of floating bodies, pipe flow and applications of Bernoulli’s Theorem. As a result, they are able to verify for themselves the principles of fluid flow.
In this lab, students gain an understanding of the functioning of various hydraulic machines such as turbines and pumps. Cut-section models help students learn about internal features of these machines.
Transportation today is essential to all mankind, and occupying a very important position in the field of transport development is the internal combustion machine.
In this lab, nearly all types of modern two-stroke and four-stroke engines are available for students to gain practical knowledge in the characteristics and functioning of different engines. Cut sections of various engines help students understand engine features better. A mini-power plant consisting of steam boiler, turbine and shell and tube condenser is also in the laboratory.
Machine tools are power-driven tools used by mechanical engineers to impart the desired size and shape to work pieces; the desired accuracy is achieved by removing excess metal in the form of chips.
In this lab, students perform different operations on the lathe such as taper turning, thread cutting and grooving. They also cut different types of gears on the milling machine that is provided with an indexing mechanism.
For engineering students and practicing engineers and technicians, heat transfer is a subject of wide interest. It involves the design, construction, testing and operation of the many forms of heat exchange equipment required in scientific and industrial technology. Our HMT lab is well-equipped with all the required experimental setups.
Metrology is described as the science of measurement and the science of accuracy and precision and its application to the control of manufacturing processes or to produce quality products. If we cannot measure and trace at macro or micro scale, we cannot produce parts at macro or micro-scale. Lack of metrology knowledge would hinder successful conversion of micro or nanotechnology into real products. The demands of industrial surface metrology consist of both economic and scientific aspects. The products are to be produced at a faster rate, cheaply and easily and also should be reliable, comparable and reproducible.
The air conditioned laboratory with instruction room is equipped with advanced dimensional and form measuring equipments such CNC Co-ordinated Measuring Machine, Advanced Vision Inspection System and Electronic Height Gauge and Surface Roughness Tester apart from many other calibrated equipments for students to learn dimensional and form measurement various types of objects range from engine block to watch parts or micro needles to a resolution of 10 nm and an accuracy of better than one micrometer. The students also learn the process of calibration of measuring instruments, reverse engineering and Statistical Quality Control methods using various instruments available in the laboratory. The lab also provides facility for research & consultancy for staff and students of various campuses.
Publication Count : 5 international journals and 6 patents
Year of Establishment : 2021
Experimental Applied Mechanics Lab has been involved in designing and analyzing novel engineering structures and researching applied mechanics. Recent studies on lightweight auxetic metamaterial engineering structures have led to new structural designs with a 65 % material reduction compared to conventional designs. These are the first of their kind in enhancing the load-bearing capabilities of Auxetic structures. The experimental applied mechanics lab has 5 international journals and 6 patents in its credits.
Publication Count : 35 International journal publications.
Year of Establishment : 2019
This lab is equipped with the following equipment for material related research projects.
An electric furnace consists of a heating chamber which can achieve extremely hot temperatures for melting Al , Cu and Ti based alloys. The furnace can also be used to produce metal matrix composites. The working temperature of the industrial furnace is up-to 1400 degree Celsius. The furnace is equipped with a mechanical stirrer which will enable the researchers to get a homogeneous distribution of ceramic particles in the metal matrix. The furnace is also used as a heat treatment furnace for conducting heat treatment analysis on alloys and composites.
Research Activities: Development of alloys, MMC, Fabrication of lightweight materials for automotive and aerospace applications, Fabrication of low-cost smart materials for robotic applications, Development of Cu and Al based spinodal alloys for defense applications.
Publication Count : 2 Journal and 3 Conference publications
Year of Establishment : 2021
An advanced material and manufacturing lab established in the Department of Mechanical Engineering with a single mode microwave processor. The microwave processor provides uniform heating of materials instead of non-uniform heating by conventional furnaces. Microwave sintering has emerged in recent years as a new method for sintering a variety of materials that has shown significant advantages against conventional sintering procedures. Many commercial powder-metal components of various alloy compositions including iron and steel, Copper, Aluminum, Nickel, Mo, Co, Ti, W, Sn, etc., and their alloys have been sintered in microwaves producing better properties than their conventional counterparts by using a 2.45GHz multi or single mode microwave System. Thus, this lab enables the researchers to develop various composite materials that give better mechanical properties in our own lab.
Research activities: Development of metal matrix composite, Powder metallurgy processing
Publication Count : 2 Journal and 6 Conference publications
Year of Establishment : 2016
The aerodynamics lab is equipped with advanced equipment for flow visualisation studies
Water channel flow visualisation equipment
A water channel apparatus is used for flow visualization studies on different flow patterns around different objects. It consists of a water tank with a dimension of 2.5 ×1.5 m and a depth of 150 mm. At one end of the table, two sets of aluminum discs (vanes) are located with suitable spacing between them and are rotated using a variable-speed DC motor. They act as paddles, and when they are rotated, they create a flow suitably guided to the test section where the models are placed. Two guides made of FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastic) with a height of 0.15 m are placed at a certain distance to guide the flow properly to the test section where the models are placed. The distance between the guides was set at 350mm. A wire mesh was placed between the guides to eliminate the vortices present in the incoming flow.
Research Activities: Analysis of flow patterns around different engineering structures, Investigation of reverse flow under different conditions.
Publication Count : 2 Journals and 2 conference papers
Year of Establishment : 2021
The vortexing equipment enables researchers to study these vortexing phenomena experimentally by creating vortexes in a transparent glass cylinder. In the current experimental setup, a rotational disturbance is imparted to the fluid filled in a cylindrical tank which is mounted on the rotating table as shown in the figure. Rotational disturbance is quantified by RPM, and it is controlled by the RPM controller. The cylinder is rotated for four minutes and draining is allowed through the drain port at the bottom. Using the graduated scale attached to the cylinder, critical height of air core is measured. Time of emptying the tank can also be measured using a stopwatch. The effect of these independent parameters on critical height and time of emptying is studied using this experimental setup.
Research Activities: Study of Rankine vortex formation during liquid draining from cylindrical tanks
Publication Count : 34 Publications
Year of Establishment : 2011
The computational-aided engineering lab is equipped with the most modern computing facilities. Research in heat transfer and phase change, gas turbine blade cooling, blade cooling, cryogenics, granular combustion, and models of blood flow through veins are undertaken at this facility. The lab is equipped with 18 computers, including high-end workstations capable of running simulations using Ansys, Open FOAM etc.
Research Activities: Fluid structure interaction simulation, multiphase flow simulation, Biofluid flow simulation in arteries, micro-nano flow simulation.