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Building Tech Lab

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES

 The Building Technology Laboratories are provided for the purposes of education, research and consultancies. They consist of:

  1. Structural laboratory

  2. Concrete and cement laboratory

 

Lab Coordinator:

Mohd. Rodzi Ismail

Tel: 04-653 2841

 

Lab Assistant:

1. Khalid Ahmad

2. Idris Shaari

Tel: 04-653 3280

 

  1. STRUCTURAL LABORATORY

    The equipments available in this laboratory can be divided into educational and, research and consultancies purposes.

     The equipments for educational purpose are:

    1. Friction on Incline Plane Apparatus

    2. Torsion Bar Apparatus

    3. Continuous Beam Apparatus

    4. Roof Truss Apparatus

    5. Portal Frame Apparatus

    6. Shear Force and Bending Moment Apparatus

    7. Reaction of Beam Apparatus

     The equipments for research and consultancies purposes are:

    1. Torsee Universal Testing Machine 50T

    2. Torsee Universal Wood Testing Machine 10T

    3. Gotech Universal Testing Machine 50T

    4. Diamond Bar Bender

     

  2. CONCRETE & CEMENT LAB

    All the equipments available in this laboratory are meant for education, research and consultancy works and can be classified as follows:

    1. Materials Testing Equipment

      1. Screen Shaker, Test Sieve, Riffling Box etc.

      2. Los Angeles Abrasion Machine

      3. Sodium Sulfate Soundness Test Equipment

      4. Infra Red Oven/Air Ventilated Oven

      5. Rock/Slag Crusher

         

    2. Mix and Testing Fresh Concrete

      1. Slump Test Apparatus

      2. Compacting Factor Apparatus

      3. Mortar/Concrete Mixer

      4. Vibrating Table/Rod Vibrator

      5. Steel Mould (Cube/Prism)

         

    3. Hardened Concrete Testing

      Destructive testing:

      1. Autotest 3000 BS/ELE Compression Testing (Digital) Machine

      2. 50 kN Flexural Testing Machine

      3. Soiltest Compression Machine (Analog)

      4. Magnus Frame Apparatus (Frame & Loading Hydraulic Motor)

      Non-Destructive testing:

      1. PUNDIT Ultrasonic Concrete Tester

      2. Surface Hardness Testing (Schmidt Hammer)

      3. Crack Detection Microscope

      4. Multi Position Strain Gauge (Digital)

      5. Concrete Permeability Equipment

         

    4. Cement Testing

      1. Initial/Final Setting Time Test (Vicat Apparatus) - Auto

      2. Determination of Cement Finess Apparatus

      3. Bricquette Appratus

         

    5. Other Facilities

      1. Calibration Device

      2. Hollow Block Making Machine/Steel Moulds

      3. Drill Hammer

      4. Concrete/Masonry Cutter

      5. Foaming Equipment

      6. Balance (Heavy Duty/Digital)

      7. Husk Disk Mill Machine

      8. Accelerated Curing Tank

      9. Air Compressor

      10. Digital Calliper (XXXXXX)

      11. Concrete Coring Machine & Diamond Core

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