The Rock Mechanics laboratory is well equiped with all the latest equipments for stress analysis,triaxial , direct and indirect shear tests, along with 100 ton Universal Testing machine.
Equivalent material model study facilities are the most utilised ones of the Department.
A
model mine gallery and well equipped aerodynamics
laboratory for conducting various studies on subsurface ventilation.
Workstations
and PCs with Pentium processors supporting Windows and UNIX
environments, all connected to the IIT internal network, and to
the internet.
A
Mine
environmental laboratory with facilities forair
and
waterquality analysis,
noise and groundvibrations.
A
well equipped workshop for necessary design and fabrication
of instrumentation.
A
libraryof
in-house and commercial software , Text as well as
reference Books and Thesis for
mine
planning,
geostatistical applications, mine accident analysis, equipment
reliability
, operations research applications, finite element
analysis for application to geomechanics problems, ventilation network
analysis, and
climate simulation.
Interdepartmental
facilities including DTA/TG, SEM, particle size analysis, frequency
analysis, XRD, digital image processing, thin section studies, flocculation
studies, gas chromatography, AAS, and such have often been used
for the Departmental research work.
Labs &Workshop :
Fire &Explosion Lab
Surveying Lab
Workshop
