Address:
Northern Laboratories 1, UG Lab Complex
Overview:
The Experimental Analysis Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur is dedicated to the experimental investigation of the mechanical behavior of materials and structures. The laboratory provides state-of-the-art facilities for conducting experiments in solid mechanics, experimental stress analysis, material characterization, and structural mechanics.
The laboratory serves as a core teaching and research facility for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs. Through a combination of conventional testing methods and advanced optical measurement techniques, students develop a comprehensive understanding of deformation, stress, strain, failure mechanisms, and the validation of analytical and computational models.
Our facilities support both instructional laboratory courses and research activities, offering students hands-on experience with modern experimental methods widely used in academia and industry.
Equipment:
- 25 KN Servo Hydraulic Universal Testing Machine
- Strain Conditioners and Data Acquisition Systems
- Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS
- Universal Testing Machine
- Hardness Tester (Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell Superficial)
- Poldi Portable Hardness Tester (Shore A and Shore D)
- Fatigue Tester (Rotating Bending and Reverse Bending)
Experiments:
- Application of strain gauge techniques: lecture on strain gauge based methods, cantilever beam and portal frame experiments
- Application of strain gauge techniques: experiment on combined bending and torsion
- Applications of photoelasticity: demonstration of photoelastic techniques
- Applications of photoelasticity: calibration of the photoelastic constant, determination of the stress field in a beam under bending
- Applications of Digital Image Correlation: demonstration of DIC techniques, determination of strain fields in the gauge section of a polymeric dog-bone specimen under tension
- Applications of DIC: determination of thermoelastic stress and strain fields using DIC
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Faculty-in-Charge: Dr. Sumit Basu
Staff:
Contact Person:
Anurag Goel / Raghavendra Kushwaha
Northern Laboratories 1, UG Lab Complex
0512-679-7966
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