The academic facilities available to the students at the Department of Civil Engineering includes:

Teaching Facilities:

The Department of Civil Engineering has 13 lecture rooms, each having a capacity of 70 students. There are two lecture theatres, which can accommodate 300 students and one drawing hall for 80 students. The teaching facilities are equipped with latest state of the art multi-media and teaching aids. The use of the teaching aids is encouraged by the faculty and is also much preferred.

Laboratories and Technical Laboratories:

There are 9 well equipped, laboratories that are capable of carrying out the prescribed course of practical work in the respective subjects taught at undergraduate level. Competent and experienced technical staff is available to supervise laboratory related experiments and tutorials to facilitate the subject teacher during teaching hours as well as in demonstration of experimental procedures and performances of the prescribed experiments. The size of the laboratories is large enough (1250 sq. ft.) to accommodate a number of groups at a time. The Department has the following laboratory facilities:

 Surveying Laboratory
 Hydraulics & Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
 Soil Mechanics Laboratory
 Geology Laboratory
 Transportation Laboratory
 Material Testing Laboratory
 Concrete Laboratory
 Water Supply & Sanitary Engineering Laboratory
 Engineering Mechanics / Soil Dynamics Laboratory

 
 

Computational Facilities:

A state of the art computer facility is available to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the department. The facilities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels are provided free of charge (except for using internet which is charge at nominal hourly rate). The Undergraduate Computer Centre (UGCC) is equipped with the latest machines providing at one time more than 60 students to work (workstations) through the INTRANET, which is provided by the university’s centralized computing services. The operating system used is WINDOWS based allowing user friendly and interactive computing environment. The department has its own server and a number of groups are integrated within the system. There is a growing list of licensed engineering and utility software being used for analysis of various design problems being taught in different courses. Some of the common software that are available at computer centers are:

ETABS	AutoCAD	Visual Basic 6
SAP90	BATS	MS Project 2000
SAP2000	GRASP	Fortran
STAAD	SAFE 7	C++
SPSS	Section Builder 8
RoadCalc	Power Station

At the Postgraduate Computer Centre (PGCC) keeping in view of the requirements research and computation in addition to above mentioned software, following programmes have been also added to the software bank:

SAP 2000	BATS 2001	CSI Section Builder
ETABS	GEAR 2003
SAFE	GRASP

Reference Facilities:

The undergraduate students are encouraged to develop their own ideas and arrive at solutions through personal endeavour. In order to facilitate students in developing project proposals the department has its own updated Project Library which mainly contains Final Year projects prepared by graduating. Many of these projects are of high standard and have been followed and taken further at higher academic levels, while some have been practically implemented, showing high professional value. Some research carried out at undergraduate level has been of good quality leading to publication.

In addition to these facilities the Department of Civil Engineering has also acquired an APT (Automatic Picture Transmission), courtesy of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). The device is a highly sensitive telemetry receiver specifically designed to receive FM signals from satellite. The gadget displays weather images of the country and is housed in the Cowasjee Earthquake Study Centre.

Video Conferencing Hall:

Installation of Shake Table:

The Seismic Table has a linear hydraulic actuator with a fatigue rating of 110 kip (500 kN). The actuator is attached to a 3 M x 3 M table which is guided by linear bearings. The stroke capability of the unit is ± 300 mm (± 12 inch) with a nominal peak velocity of 1 meter/sec (40 inches/sec) and average velocity of ½ meter/sec (20 in/sec). The linear guide bearing are sized to test a 20 MT payload with a CG 3 M off the table surface, with 60 MT-M over turning moment at one g. The entire table assembly is attached to the mass via the post tensioned steel plates on the mass top surface. The actuator is attached to the moving table via a coupling flexure which is guided by linear bearings.

The table surface includes a mounting grid pattern to simplify specimen attachment. The assembly has a complete with a servo valve 900 lpm (240 gpm) and position transducer to allow displacement to be used as the feedback for loop closure. An accelerometer is used to control or monitor the table motion in an external loop as well. The control system accepts a signal from the control system. The hydraulic power is provided via a 156 gpm, 3000 psi HPS.

The Siesmic Table Assembly is attached to a reaction mass in order to develop full force performance. A mass to maximum load ratio is 20:1.

The systems include control software which all standard features. The System has four (4), 32 bit input A/D channels with 16 bit programmable attenuators, one, 64-bit output D/A channel with 16-bit D/A, one, high speed signal processing module, classical shock vibration and a 2.93 GHz PC based computer.

Hydraulic Linear Actuator, 500 kN (110 kip), is a double ended fatigue rated, with hydrostatic and replaceable non-metallic back up bearings, one-piece 133.4 mm (5.25 inch) heat treated alloy piston rod, and internal, concentrically mounted LVDT. Hydrostatic bearing provide a low friction high side load bearing to assure low harmonic distortion during high velocity tests. Click...