All of the laboratories are equipped with good quality apparatus, have enough space for conducting experiments and are properly ventilated and illuminated.
CAM/CAA Laboratory
The Computer Aided Modeling and Analysis lab of the Mechanical Engineering department of the institute provides facilities for students and faculty members to work with 2-D & 3-D design and analysis software for their academic and research work. The 3-D Modeling Software and FE Analysis software’s available in the CAD lab are:
- CATIA
- Solid Works
- ANSYS
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
Create 3D Model by using following Workbench.
- CAD Introduction.
- Solid modeling – Extrude, Revolve, Sweep, etc and Variational sweep, Loft, etc
- Surface modeling – Extrude, Sweep, Trim. etc and Mesh of curves, Free form etc
- Feature manipulation – Copy, Edit, Pattern, Suppress, History operations etc.
- Assembly-Constraints, Exploded Views, Interference check
- Drafting – Layouts, Standard & Sectional Views, Detailing & Plotting.
- CAD data Exchange formats – IGES, PDES, PARASOLID, DXF and STL
COURSE OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Draw complex geometries of machine components in sketcher mode.
- Model a part, surface and assembly using Computer-Aided Design software.
- Create complex engineering assemblies using appropriate assembly constraints.
- Develop different views to understand the difficulties in perspective projection.
- Communicate effectively the geometry and intent of design features.
Kinematics and Dynamics Lab
This lab enables one to study and analyse the balance & unbalance of the reciprocating masses, useful to study various experiments and to verify the principles and relations pertaining to study of vibrations. Various experiments with gyroscopes, balancing machines are available to understand machine dynamics.
Laboratory Courses Conducted:
| S. No. | LIST OF EXPERIMENT |
| 1 | Determination of damped natural frequency of vibration of the vibrating system with different viscous oils. |
| 2 | Determination of steady state amplitude of a forced vibratory system. |
| 3 | Static balancing using steel balls. |
| 4 | Determination of the magnitude and orientation of the balancing mass in dynamic balancing. |
| 5 | Field balancing of the thin rotors using vibration pickups. |
| 6 | Determination of the magnitude of gyroscopic couple, angular velocity of precession and representation of vectors. |
| 7 | Determination of natural frequency of given structure using FFT analyzer. |
| 8 | Diagnosis of a machine using FFT analyzer. |
| 9 | Direct Kinematic analysis of a robot. |
| 10 | Inverse Kinematic analysis of a robot. |
| 11 | Trajectory planning of a robot in joint space scheme. |
| 12 | Palletizing operation using Robot programming. |
COURSE OUTCOMES: At the end of the course, the student will be able to
- Predict damped natural frequency of vibration of the vibrating system
- Determine the steady state amplitude of a forced vibratory system.
- Identify Static balancing using steel balls.
- Determine the magnitude and orientation of the balancing mass in dynamic balancing.
- Determine the natural frequency of given structure using FFT analyzer.
- Extent the knowledge in various kinematic analysis and summarize the knowledge in robot programming.
