Laboratory | Room | Description | Major Equipment/Software |
Soil Mechanics Laboratory | M103A & M103B | For the conduct of laboratory experiments on soils’ index properties, moisture content, Atterberg limits, grain-size analyses, compaction, permeability tests, seepage analysis, shear strength, consolidation and slope stability analysis |
•Triaxial Machine •Direct-Residual Shear Apparatus •Front Loading Oedometer •Uniframe •Software : SEEP/W for seepage analysis, SLOPE/W for stability analysis, Quake/W for seismic analysis |
Construction Technology and Management Laboratory | M104A | The laboratory discusses construction management and their applications, project planning, scheduling, monitoring and control | •Software : BIM Softwares (Asta, Tilos, Costos) |
Transportation Laboratory | M104E | Laboratory exercises will be performed mostly outside the DLSU campus observing the traffic phenomenon and other transport facilities. |
•Radar Gun for measuring speed of vehicle. •Software : EMME software, HIGHWAY CAPACITY software, PTV Vistro, DYNAMEQ software |
Flow Analysis and Water Resource Laboratory | M113 & M114 | For the conduct of experiments on Fluid Properties; Continuity, Energy, Momentum Concepts, Bernoulli’s Theorem and Applications, headloss due to friction, open channel flow visualization, rainfall-runoff simulations, and groundwater simulations. |
•Hydrology Apparatus •Flow channel •Fluid Friction Apparatus •Hydraulic bench •Pipe Network Apparatus •Software: HECRAS, EPANet, QGIS |
Surveying Laboratory | M116 & M104A | Experiments are performed in the field. Students will learn about elementary and higher surveying; the use of surveying instruments, laying out simple, compound, reversed, spiral and vertical curves; and the different techniques in laying out curves in cases of interventions in the field. |
•Total Station and various survey instruments •Software: 12D |
Structural and Material Testing Laboratory | STRC 102, 104 & 106 | Laboratory testing to determine the physical and mechanical properties of construction materials like concrete and steel, casting and destructive testing of beams. Also use to conduct various research works on structures and construction materials. |
•Universal Testing Machine (UTM) •Compression and Flexural testing Machine |
Structural Engineering Instructional Laboratory / CE Computational Laboratory | V512 & 513 | Instructional laboratory for the concepts and theory of structures |
•Test Frames for classroom demonstration of different types of structures. •Software : MidasGen, ETABS, SAP2000 for structural analysis |