Laboratory

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at VFSTR has state-of-the art Laboratory facilities that are located mostly at Aryabhatta Block (U-Block). A total of 14 Laboratories, 4 research centers and one Center of Excellence in Composite materials, cater to the needs of academic and research requirements not only in the department but serves other departments as well.

List of Laboratories

S. No	Name of the Laboratory	Room No.	Area (Sq.mts)
1	IC Engines Laboratory	AGF-01	195
2	Mechanics of Solids Laboratory	AGF-02	195
3	Fluid Mechanics Laboratory	AGF-02	195
4	Hydraulic MachinesLaboratory	AGF-02	195
5	Machine Tools Laboratory	AGF 10	194
6	Metrology Laboratory	AGF 10	194
7	Manufacturing Technology Laboratory	AGF 11	140
8	Machine Dynamics Laboratory	AFF-03	130
9	Instrumentation Laboratory	AFF-11	75
10	Metallurgy Laboratory	AFF-11	75

Other Laboratories

S. No	Name of the Laboratory	Room No.	Area (Sq.mts)
11	3D Printing Laboratory	AGF-05	116

FLUID MECHANICS & HYDRAULIC MACHINARY LABORATORY

Fluid mechanics and hydraulic lab provides basic idea about fundamental of fluid mechanics with a hand on experience on principles like venturimeter, Bernoulli's etc it also deals with experiments on friction factor, power production machinery like turbines, pumps. The well-equipped lab has been providing sound knowledge to the students of mechanical, mechatronics, automobile, civil and chemical engineering departments

W3.CSS

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Venturimeter and Orifice meter
2	Pipe Friction apparatus (Major Losses)
3	Flow through Orifice and Mouth Piece
4	Bernoulli's Apparatus
5	Loss of head due to sudden expansion contraction and Elbow (Minor Losses)
6	Flow through Notches
7	Multistage Centrifugal Pump
8	Reciprocating Pump
9	Impact of Jet on Vanes
10	Pelton Turbine
11	Francis Turbine
12	Kaplan Turbine

Instrumentation Laboratory

About Lab: Instrumentation is the heart of performance assurance for the modern industry. The present technologies are mainly operated by various electronic devices. In electronic devices transducer is the key element, which converts any form of signal to electrical signals. This lab gives the awareness to the student, of various transducers. The calibration of various transducers and instruments performances are studied and also analyzed the static and dynamic characteristics of the various instruments. In this lab LVDT, Thermocouple, RTD, Photo and Magnetic Speed Pickup and Angular Measurement transducers are available for practice. Equipments worth Rs. 92,523/- are available with the Lab.

W3.CSS

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Capacitive Module for Angular Measurement
2	Linear Variable Differential Transducer (LVDT)
3	Photo Electric and Magnetic speed Pickup
4	Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD)
5	Strain Gauge
6	Thermocouple

Machine Tools Laboratory

Machine tools laboratory is one of the prime laboratory in the School of Mechanical Engineering. Conventional center lathe to Capstan lathe machines are available in this laboratory. Various machining operations on lathe named as step , taper turning, facing, drilling, boring and thread cutting are carried. Shaping of flat surfaces , grinding of flat surfaces are performed using shaper and grinding machines. Gear cutting and indexing operations are performed using milling machine. Internal slots and keyways are obtained using slotting machine. Radial drilling machine is available to drill holes in the components. Equipment worth Rs. 12,19,820/- available with the Lab.

W3.CSS

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Lathe Machine (Panther Modle)
2	Lathe Machine (Namrata Student 2 nos)
3	Lathe Machine (PL-4 Type 6 nos.)
4	Capston Lathe
5	Milling Machine
6	Slotting Machine
7	Radial Drilling Machine
8	Surface Grinding Machine
9	Shaper
10	Bench Grinder
11	Planer

Machine Dynamics Laboratory

The Machines and Mechanisms Laboratory has a range of equipment, designed to meet the needs of students who are required to understand the basic principles of machines. The Lab includes a whirling of shafts apparatus, Universal governor apparatus, a balancing of reciprocating masses apparatus, a static and dynamic balancing apparatus, in addition to a vibration apparatus, where experiments can be performed on pendulums, springs and rotors, covering free and forced vibration, damping, and torsional oscillations.

W3.CSS

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Static and Dynamic Balancing
2	Balancing of reciprocating masses
3	Motorized gyroscope - verification of laws
4	Whirling of shaft
5	Forced & Free Vibration - Universal Vibration apparatus
6	Governor Apparatus; Porter, Proell & Hartnell Determination of sensitivity, effort
7	Four Bar Mechanism
8	Kinematics of Gear Models
9	Kinematics of Gear Trains
10	Motor driven Four bar mechanism and Slider crank mechanism
11	Cam analyzer

Metallurgy Laboratory

Metallography is the science dealing with the identification of the constitution and structure of metals and alloys by use of low magnification, optical microscopes. Our Metallurgy lab includes all of the equipment necessary for the preparation of samples prior to analysis by microscopes. Cold and hot mounting options are available for small to medium sized samples. Our lab contains several grinding and polishing wheels to bring a metal cross section to a mirror finish. We will chemically etch the sample to characterize the strain structure.

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Double Disc Polishing Machine
2	Jomney End Quench apparatus
3	Metallography Linisher - belt grinder
4	Muffle Furnace
5	Specimen Cutter
6	Specimen Mounting Press
7	Trinocular Metallurgical Microscope with image analysis software
8	Powder compaction die
9	Manual hydraulic press

Metrology Laboratory

Dimensions play a vital role in the manufacturing of a component. A product quality is assured on the basis of mechanical properties as well as its accurate dimensions. This is possible by the precise measuring instruments. Various measuring tools are used in industry to obtain the dimensional accuracy of a component. In this laboratory students will obtain the knowledge of usage of various measuring instruments with hands on experience. Ring, Plug and bore gauges are used in mass production to improve the quality assurance with less effort and time. Angular measurements are made with bevel protractor and sine bar. Screw and gear features are measured with floating carriage micrometer and gear tooth calipers. Toolmakers microscope and profile projector are used to obtain precise measurements of irregular surfaces too. All these techniques will be learned in this laboratory Total cost: 4,90,844

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Verinier Calipers
2	Internal Micrometer
3	Micrometer
4	Bore gauge
5	Bevel Protractor
6	Sine Bar
7	Slip Gauges
8	Gear Tooth Vernier
9	Talysurf
10	Dial gauge (3 No.s) Dial Stand
11	Profile Projector
12	Tool Makers Microscope
13	Lathe Tool Dynamometer
14	Drill Tool Dynamometer
15	Floating Carriage Micrometer
16	Vernier height gauge
17	Surface Plate
18	Angle Plate
19	Ring & Phig Gauges
20	Venire Calipers (3 Nos.)
21	Outside Micrometer 0-25mm (2 Nos.)
22	Outside Micrometer 25 - 50mm size (2 nos.)
23	Inside Micrometer
24	Gear tooth caliper
25	Bevel Protractor
26	Sign bar
27	Three wire set micrometer holder
28	Slip Gages
29	Bore Gage
30	Screw thread micrometer
31	Vernier caliper (Digital Type)

Mechanics of Solids Laboratory

The objective of Strength of Material lab is to demonstrate the basic principles in the area of strength and mechanics of materials to the undergraduate students through a series of experiments. Students will be conducting experiments using UTM to calculate the tensile strength of steel samples and experiments to measure hardness of non-heat treated and heat treated steels by using Rockwell, Brinels hardness testing equipments. Students will also test steel samples in single shear, double shear and impact loading followed by experiments on torsion testing machine to calculate torsional strength. The laboratory also demonstrates the important concepts from Strength of Materials theory course.

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	Universal Testing Machine
2	Torsion Testing Machine
3	Impact Testing Machine
4	Vicker's Hardness Testing Machine
5	Rock Well Hardness / Brinnel Hardness Testing Machine
6	Spring Testing Machine
7	Load Vs Deflection study on cantilever beam

IC Engines Laboratory

Sno	Name of Equipment
1	2 - Stroke Petrol Engine Test Rig
2	Wilcox & Bobcock Boiler model
3	Lancashire Boiler model
4	Cut - section of a 2 - Stroke Diesel Engine (2nos.)
5	Cut - section of a 2 - Stroke Petrol Engine (2nos.)
6	Cut - section of a 4 - Stroke Petrol Engine
7	Computerized Variable Compression Ratio Test Rig
8	Re-circulating type Air Conditioning test rig
9	Cut - section of a 2 - Stroke Diesel Engine
10	4-stroke High speed, Single cylinder, Vertical Diesel Engine
11	2-Stage Reciprocating Air compressor