General

The department of Civil Engineering is one of the oldest departments in the T.K.M.College of Engineering and was established in the year 1956. At present the department has an intake of 90 students for B.Tech (Civil Engineering) and 6 students for M.Tech (Structural Engineering & Construction Management). The department has well equipped labs in all disciplines which caters to the need of the undergraduate and post graduate students. The department has good academic excellence and many a times the students of the department has secured first rank in the university of kerala. The Alumni of the department has been well placed in several prestigious institutions both inside and outside the country. The faculty of the department is well qualified and dedicated to the improvement of academic standards and is keen on the overall development of the students. The department has a very efficient advisory system which always keeps very close teacher student relationship.

The Department is also an approved Research Centre of the University of Kerala

Laboratories

Materials Testing Laboratories

The Department has a well equipped material testing Laboratory Which has several Equipments for testing most of the engineering properties of materials. This consists of two laboratories – One for general engineering materials and the second for Building materials. The Equipments consists of Universal Testing Machines, Compression Testing Machines, Torsion testing machine, and equipments for testing Fatigue, Spring, Timber , cement, concrete tiles, brick, etc.

Soil Mechanics Laboratory

This Lab is equipped with equipment for testing the properties of soil both for field & Laboratory tests. The Equipments are available for testing Direct Shear, triaxial, Index properties, Grain size analysis, and field tests for bearing capacity - Plate load & Standard penetration test.

Survey Laboratory

This Survey laboratory has instruments for all sorts of field survey works. Including Total Station, Precision Theodolites, Self leveling instruments, Planimeter, and conventional equipments like Plane table, etc.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory

All tests for water quality can be done in this lab. The equipments available are Turbidimeter, Jar test for BOD, etc.

Structural Engineering Laboratories

This laboratory is exclusively for the PG students and is equipped with the latest equipments in structural testing. Some of the equipments available are 50T Loading frame with jack, Strain gauges & indicators, Load cells, displacement meters, Ultrasonic test equipment & rebound hammer for nondestructive testing etc.

Transportation engineering Laboratory.

This is a recently established laboratory. All tests for Highway construction like Aggregates, Subgrade, Bitumen can be tested here. The test that can be done are Bitumen tests, Abrasion tests, Crushing, & Impact tests on aggregates, California bearing ratio test, and other tests.

In addition to these, The department has a Computer Centre with the latest computers and structural analysis & design software. A collection of several rock/soil types is available in the Geology laboratory.

Computer Centre

Industrial Consultancy

The department has taken up industrial consultancy projects from several departments / industries. The Laboratories of the department are authorised testing centre of the Government of Kerala. Some of the collaborating industries / research institutions are given below

Harbour Engineering Department

Vikram Sarabhai Space Center

Power Grid Corporation of India

Town Planning Department

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