Transportation Engineering Laboratory

 

Established in the year 1983 under IIT-REC Network Scheme. Well equipped with facilities for the range of tests on pavement materials. Various equipments include Geogauge, Axle load weigh pads, Benkelman beam, fatigue test, GPS receiver , Road unevenness indicator, Standard tar viscometer, Pavement core drilling machine, Pavement cone penetrometer and Film striping device. 

The Highway Lab Infrastructure-

  1.   Portable Axle / Wheel Weigh Pad.
  2.   Bump Integrator / Road Unevenness Recorder / Roughometer.
  3.   Pavement Core Drilling Machine.
  4.   Electronic California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus.
  5.   Radar Speed Gun.
  6.   Vehicle Emission Testers- Petrol & Diesel.
  7.   Noise Dosimeter.

  

Lab in charge

Dr. V. Sunitha
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli – 620 015.

Phone No: +91 431-2503165 (Direct)
                  +91 431-2503196 (Lab)
E-mail       : sunitha@nitt.edu