Laboratories

1. Study of Cut-Sections of 2 stroke and 4 stroke Diesel Engine.
2. Study of Cut-Sections of 2 stroke and 4 stroke Petrol Engine.
3. Verification of Bernoulli’s Theorem and its application to Venturi meter
4. Calibration of Bourdon Tube Pressure gauge and measurement of pressure using manometers.
5. Model study of Refrigerator & Air conditioners
6. Model study of Automobile Parts.

1. Determination of equilibrium of coplanar forces.
2. Determination of Moment of Inertia of Flywheel
3. Determination of tensile strength of materials by Universal Testing Machine.
4. Determination of Metacentric Height and application to stability of floating bodies.
5. Verification of Bernoulli’s Theorem and its application to Venturimeter.
6. Determination of Cv and Cd of Orifices.
7. Calibration of Bourdon Tube Pressure gauge and measurement of pressure using manometers.
8. Study of Cut-Sections of 2 stroke and 4 stroke Diesel Engine.
9. Study of Cut-Sections of 2 stroke and 4 stroke Petrol Engine.

1. Impact strength
2. Hardness strength
3. Rigidity modulus
4. Fatigue strength
5. Experiments on impact of Jets on vane.
6. Experiments on performance of reciprocating pump
7. Experiments on performance of centrifugal pump
8. Experiments on performance of Pelton Turbine
9. Experiments on performance of Francis Turbine
10. Experiments on performance of Kaplan Turbine

1. Experiment on Rope brake dynamometer
2. Experiment on Epicyclic gear train
3. Determination of gyroscopic couple using gyroscopic test rig
4. Performance characteristics of a spring loaded governor
5. Determination of critical speed of rotating shaft
6. Experiment on static and dynamic balancing apparatus
7. Experiment on Cam Analysis
8. Valve timing diagram of an IC engine
9. Study of a modern carburetor (e.g.Solex Carburtor)
10. Study of fuel injection system of a diesel engine
11. Study of different cooling systems in automobiles (Air cooling and water cooling).
12. Study of lubrication systems in automobiles

1. Determination of Thermal conductivity of composite slab
2. Determination of heat transfer coefficient in forced convention
3. Determination of heat transfer coefficient in natural convention
4. Determination of surface emissivity
5. Performance test on parallel flow and counter flow heat exchanger
6. Efficiency and effectiveness of fins ( Forced convection)
7. Verification of Stefan Boltzman’s law.
8. Performance analysis of reciprocating air-compressor
9. Determination of performance characteristics of gear oil pump.
10. Study of power transmission system of automobiles

1. Determination of C.O. P on vapour compression system
2. Performance test on Air conditioning test rig (Window type)
3. Determination of C.O.P of ice plant
4. Determination of C.O.P of Heat Pump.
5. Performance analysis in an experimental cooling tower.
6. Calibration of load cell using electrical resistance strain gauge
7. Calibration of a Rotameter for fluid flow measurement
8. Calibration of thermo couples
9. Experiment on Pneumatic trainer
10. Experiment on Hydraulic trainer

An exclusive automobile workshop has been set up to provide our students a live demonstration of automotive parts and their functions in 2 wheeler and 4 wheeler vehicles. This lab is solely intended for the student’s automotive projects and prototypes beyond curriculum.

A 4-StrokeCar Engine

A 4-Stroke Truck Engine

A 2-Stroke Petrol Engine of a Scooter

Automotive Transmission Unit

CAD/CAM Lab provides application based hands on training on AutoCAD, SolidWorks-2015, ANSYS, CATIA, R-6 etc. with latest versions of these softwares.

The specifications of all the systems (36) in the lab are:

Windows 8.1 single language 2013 Microsoft corporation

System processor: Intel(r)core(TM) i3-4150 CPU @3.50 GHZ

Installed memory (RAM): 4:00 GB (3.87 GB is usable)

System type: 64 bit operating system

Computer name: Acer

SOFTWARE INSTALLED

1.CATIA V5/V6

2.MASTERCAM X5/20

3.AutoCAD 2023

4.ANSYS 14.0

5.Creo 4.0

Numerical computation

(Using MATLAB or other software/language)

• Basics of MATLAB or similar software / language
• Finding solution by Numerical methods (including graphics) for the following

1. Bisection method
2. Newton-Raphson method
3. Secant method
4. Gauss elimination method
5. Numerical differentiation
6. Numerical integration (e.g.- Newton cotes quadrature)
7. Curve fitting method
8. Initial value problems(eg-runge-kutta method)
9. Boundary value problem(eg- shooting method)
10. Eigen value problem

Solids modeling

(Using solid modeling software e.g.- AUTOCAD/PROE/CATIA/SOLIDWORKS ETC)

• Learning the basics of solid modeling software
• Describe and apply the CONE, SPHERE and TORUS command to draw solid primitives
• Describe and apply the EXTRUDE and REVOLVE command to draw solid models that cannot be drawn with a composition of primitives.

Autocad:

Application based value added training provided by the above lab is given below.

Duration: 60 Hrs

• Introduction, History, Higher end and Lower end Software, Parametric, Constraint
• Cad, CAM and CAE
• Units, Workspace, Sketch, Dimension
• Line, Rectangle, Circle, Arc, Polygon
• Trim, extend, break, fillet, chamfer, join
• Spline, Ellipse, Fillet, Text, Point
• Mirror, array , Move, Offset, Trim
• Dimension , dimension style, multileader, text style
• Isometric drawing using snap command.
• Extrude , Revolve , Sweep, loft

Solidworks:

DAY 1: Introduction, History, Higher end and Lower end Software, Parametric, Constraint

DAY 2: Units, Workspace, Sketch, Dimension

DAY 3: Line, Rectangle, Slot, Circle, Arc, Polygon

DAY4: Spline, Ellipse, Fillet, Plane, Text, Point

DAY 5: Mirror, pattern, Move, Offset, Trim

DAY6: Extrude boss, Revolve boss, Swept boss

DAY 7: Part design of a 3d model, Practice of Sketch and Part design

All 2^nd year mechanical engineering students take up their curricular machine drawing in this lab where they focus upon basic design of machine parts with various views and projections. It is equipped with 36 state- of- the-art architectural drawing boards fitted to wooden tables and 10 illustrative educational flakes.

• Screw threads
• Screwed fastenings
• Turn Buckle
• Keys
• Cotter joints and Knuckle joints
• Pulley
• Flanged coupling
• Pedestal Bearing or Plummer Block.

• Dimension & annotations
• Use of Layers
• Working with constraint in dimension
• Creating assembly
• Axi-symmetrical parts
• Creating surface features
• Working with bill of material

• Projection of solids
• Nut & bolt and Fasteners
• Cotter joint
• Expansion joint
• Shaft coupling

This central workshop is dedicated for all 1^st year engineering students and 2^nd year mechanical engineering students for various workshop practices.

The students of 2^nd year mechanical engineering do their workshop practices for fabrication for their academic course job.

• Fitting Practice: Use of hand tools in fitting, preparing a male and female joint of M.S. or making a paper weight of M.S.

• Welding Practice : Gas welding & Electric Arc welding Practice. A joint such as a Lap joint, a T-joint or a Butt joint is to be prepared or to make furniture.

• Machining:

(i) Stepped cylindrical Turning of a job and Thread-cutting in lathe.

(ii)  Shaping

(iii) Milling

• A job on lathe with taper turning, thread cutting, knurling and groove cutting
• Gear cutting (with index head) on milling m/c
• Working with shaper, planer and slotting m/c
• Working with surface/ cylindrical grinding
• TIG/ MIG welding, gas cutting

The 1st year students of all disciplines are exposed to this lab for their engineering drawing to enhance their design skills and drafting with the help of a no. of wooden/ metal models. It houses 36 state- of- the-art architectural drawing boards fitted to wooden tables and 12 illustrative educational flakes.

Sheet Lay-out & Sketching, Line Drawing, Lettering & Dimensioning; Concept of orthographic Projection, First-angle Projection, Projections of Points, Projection of straight line, Projection of planes, Projection of Solids, Intersection of surfaces, development of surfaces, Isometric Projection, Sectional Views of solids, Full section, Introduction to computer-Aided Drafting.

An Electric Vehicle Technology Lab as an additional lab facility has been set in the department to impact the latest technology on Electric Vehicles to the students. This lab is equipped with two EV 2 wheelers (Wokinawa make) with one 2 Wheeler cut section model where students are exposed to hands on practice of assembling and dismantling of all EV components. Besides, this lab houses 3 special sections with three wall display TV Units for Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics sections where students are imparted training and demo with EV power train live model, battery pack, traction motor and controller, battery management system and diagnostic tools.

A special lab of sustainability solar and wind energy has been setup with 500 watt field model wind turbine, a vertical axis Tulip model and a blade less suction model for students training and practices on the renewable energy technology. Besides, this lab is equipped with PV solar panels, solar off-grid setup, solar nano-grid to study the parameters of solar PV system using MPPT and PWM controller.