The School has acquired laboratory facilities worth over $5 million, including pavement/geotechnology research facilities, water laboratory enhancements, structures, including a heavy-testing-rig with 500t capacity, bio-activated laboratories, and earthquake engineering facilities (stress -tubes and canon impact, earthquake engineering and blast impact engineering).
Other facilities
Rapid prototyping
Computer numerically controlled machines and dynamometer testing
Gear hobbing
EDM wire cutting
Strain gauging and Residual stress
Instron 250kn tensile testing
Mayes cyclic testing.
Avery Torsion testing
Scheck Flat torsion testing
Impact machines Avery, Zwick
Materials testing, full range of cutting, polishing, and mounting machines and microscopes
Hardness testing, Vickers, Rockwell and brinell
Hansfield and Monsanto Tensile testing machines.
Surface testing and surface finish machines Mitutoyo and Talysurf
Wind Tunnel 30.5 m/s
Photron High speed camera
Thermo vision A40 thermo heat sensitive cameras
SCADA and PLC Festo equipment.
Vibration and noise analysing equipment
Exciters for vibration analysis
Laser measurement
Ultrasonic gauges, Anemometers Fluids
Hydralic bench measurement
Laminar turbulent flow apparatus
Friction flow in pipes, pipe flow apparatus
Hydrokinetics
Tilting flume
Adjustable bed and channel flow
Centrifugal pumps, Parallel Pumps, Piton Turbine, Francis turbine
Rota meter calibration unit
Small steam turbine
Smoke Machines and Flow visualisation
SOLTEQ Heat exchangers
TQ Heat transfer units TH4, HT10x, HT1, Temperature Measuring machines.
