Address
1st Floor, Northern Laboratories 1 Extension, UG Lab Complex
Overview:
The Materials Testing Laboratory, located on the Undergraduate Laboratory Complex, serves as an important instructional facility for undergraduate students in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The laboratory is designed to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts taught in their materials-related courses and their real-world engineering applications. At present, the laboratory supports experiments associated with the courses ME222 (Nature and properties of materials), ME683 (Techniques in non-destructive evaluation), and ME723 (Wave propagation in solids) providing students with practical exposure to the behavior and characterization of engineering materials. The Laboratory, offered under Course Code ME333 (Experiments in Mechanical Engineering-I), comprises a series of structured experiments designed to provide students with hands-on experience in evaluating the mechanical properties of engineering materials. The experiments cover properties such as strength, hardness, ductility, fatigue life, elastic modulus, shear modulus, and surface characteristics of various materials, including mild steel, aluminium, copper, brass, polymers, elastomers, and thin-film specimens. The facility is equipped with a wide range of testing and characterization instruments including universal testing machine, micro vickers hardness tester, digital brinell hardness tester, rotating cantilever fatigue testing machine, metallography station, contact angle meter, ellipsometer, tear resistance tester. These instruments enable experimental studies related to tensile testing, fatigue analysis, hardness measurement, metallographic examination, wettability assessment, surface energy evaluation, and thin film characterization. The experiments conducted in the laboratory help students understand concepts such as stress-strain behavior, S-N curve generation, material failure mechanisms, surface properties, microstructural analysis, and estimation of elastic constants.
Equipment
- Universal Testing Machine – Not working
- Double Disc Polishing Machine
- Specimen Cutter Machine
- Metallography Station
- Rotating Cantilever Type Fatigue Testing Machine
- Ellipsometer
- Digital Micro Vickers Hardness Tester
- Load Cell Based Digital Brinell Hardness Tester
- Tear Resistance Tester
- Vickers Hardness Tester
- Ultrasonic Pulsar-Receiver Module
- Contact Angle Meter
- Shore-A & Shore-D Hardness Tester
Experiments:
- Study of Stress-Strain Behaviour of Mild Steel and Aluminium under Tensile Loading using a Universal Testing Machine
- Study of Hardness of given Metallic specimen using Brinell Hardness Tester
- Study of Hardness of given Metallic specimen using a Micro Vickers Hardness Tester
- Study of Wettability and Surface Energy using Contact Angle Meter
- Study of Hardness of Rubbers, Plastics, and Elastomers using Shore A and Shore D Durometer
- Study of Fatigue Behaviour of Mild Steel and Aluminium by Plotting S-N Curve using Rotating Cantilever Type Fatigue Testing Machine
- Study of Hardness of given Metallic Samples (Mild Steel, Aluminium, Copper, Brass, etc.) using Rockwell Hardness Tester
- To determine the film thickness and refractive index of a thin-film specimen deposited on a substrate using an ellipsometer
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Faculty-in-Charge: Dr. C. Chandraprakash
Contact Person:
Gourav Kumar Jha
1st floor, UG Lab Complex
0512-679-7355
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