Materials Testing Laboratory

The Materials Testing Laboratory is located in Block B, Room 201. The laboratory is focused on refining experimental techniques to enhance the learning experience with new materials, demonstrating how a material's history can influence its structure. It offers a platform for conducting experiments that illustrate the principles of metals and alloys such as aluminum, steel, brass, and copper.

Some of the major equipment available in this laboratory are:

• Universal Testing Machine (UTM):
  • Performs tensile test to measure elastic modulus, yielding strength and tensile strength of metallic materials using ASTM E8 standards
  • Determines Brinell hardness of metallic materials
  • Tests the deflection of coil spring, leaf spring, and beams
• Impact of Charpy:
  • Determines the energy absorbed at fracture and studies its relationship to material toughness using ASTM E23 standards
• Rockwell Hardness Testing:
  • Determines the Rockwell hardness of metallic materials using ASTM E18 standards
• Torsion Unit:
  • Studies the relationship between the moment of a force and the angular deformation
  • Performs torsion test to determine modulus of rigidity of metals using ASTM A938 standards