The laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering is one of the practical teaching laboratories of the university. The Civil Engineering Laboratory Center has a building materials room, a geotechnical room, a measurement room and a road room; the Mechanics Laboratory Center has a material mechanics room and a theoretical mechanics room. Among them, the material mechanics room, geotechnical room and measurement room have been evaluated by the teaching laboratory evaluation expert group of basic courses in higher education institutions in Henan Province in October 2002, the road room passed the acceptance by the school expert group in May 2003, and the HVAC comprehensive laboratory passed the acceptance by the school expert group in December 2003, which is one of the practical teaching laboratories in the Civil Engineering Laboratory Center. The laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering was awarded the title of excellent laboratory of the university in December 2004.
The laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering mainly undertakes the experimental teaching tasks of the courses of Mechanics of Materials and Engineering Mechanics for the undergraduate and specialized students of more than twenty majors in the engineering category of the university, as well as the experimental teaching tasks of the courses of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Basis, Engineering Measurement, Roadbed and Pavement Testing Techniques, Refrigeration Techniques, and Fundamentals of Chemical Basis of Drainage and Water Supply and Sewerage for the specialized students of the civil engineering category. In particular, the experimental teaching tasks undertaken by the undergraduate majors can fully meet the teaching requirements.
The Civil Engineering Laboratory Center has sound rules and regulations, and has formulated various rules and regulations on material management, personnel management, safety and hygiene management, work file management, etc., which are made into exhibition boards and hung in each laboratory.
Civil Engineering Department Laboratory of the existing full-time technical staff of 3 people, 2 master's degree, of which 1 senior technical title, intermediate technical title of 2 people. Nine teachers, the title and academic structure of the personnel is reasonable, clear responsibilities, to meet the requirements of experimental teaching and management.
In order to further improve the experimental teaching work and promote teaching reform, the Department of Civil Engineering laboratory technicians in the teaching and research and scientific research has also made certain achievements. Participated in the completion of the teaching and research projects in Henan Province, a third prize for scientific and technological achievements, the Henan Provincial Department of Education, a second prize for scientific and technological achievements, was awarded the first prize of the first prize of the innovative education teaching achievements in Henan Province, was awarded the second prize of the second prize of the excellent results of information technology education in Henan Province. It has passed 10 scientific research achievements appraised at provincial level and 7 scientific research achievements appraised at school level, published more than 20 papers, and written 5 experiment guide books and experiment reports related to experimental teaching. The building materials room is the basic laboratory for the experimental teaching of the course "Building Materials" of civil engineering majors and specialties. The building materials room mainly carries out the performance testing of various kinds of cement, concrete, admixtures, reinforcing steel, waterproof materials and other commonly used building materials and special engineering materials. The main instruments and equipments in the building materials room include hydraulic pressure tester, flexural and compressive tester, numerical control penetrometer, single horizontal axis forced concrete mixer, vibrating table, digital display Vibro consistency tester, concrete penetration resistance tester, air content tester for concrete mix, automatic temperature and humidity control instrument for concrete standard curing room, cement fineness negative-pressure sieve analyzer, cement slurry mixer and cement mortar mixer, etc., with the experimental area of 310m, and total asset value of 25.5million yuan. With 310m, total asset value of 253,000 RMB, 72 sets of instruments and equipment, it can open 7 experimental programs.
The civil engineering room is the basic laboratory for practical teaching of the course "Soil Mechanics and Foundation" for the majors of Construction Engineering Technology, Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, Water Supply and Drainage Engineering Technology and Engineering Supervision of the Department of Civil Engineering. Geotechnical room is mainly for the determination of various performance indexes of foundation soil. Through the experiment, students can understand the physical and mechanical properties and characteristics of soil, and provide calculation indexes and parameters for the application of theory. The main instruments and equipments in the Geotechnical Laboratory are single-lever consolidation instrument, equal strain shear instrument, photoelectric liquid-plastic limit tester, medium-pressure bench-top triaxial instrument, etc. The experimental area is 422m, with a total value of RMB 502,000 yuan, and the number of instrument and equipments is 104, which can be used to set up 6 experimental projects, such as water content experiment, density experiment, liquid-plastic limit experiment, granular analysis experiment, compression experiment, and shear experiment.
Surveying room is the basic laboratory for the practical teaching of the course of "Engineering Surveying" for the majors of Architectural Engineering Technology, Road and Bridge Engineering Technology, Water Supply and Drainage Engineering Technology and Engineering Supervision in the Department of Civil Engineering, meanwhile, it provides the necessary measuring tools for the students to carry out surveying internship. The measuring room mainly teaches the basic structure and use of measuring instruments, as well as the inspection and correction methods of measuring instruments' own errors. Through the experiments, students can master the measurement methods of determining the three basic elements of the ground point position: elevation difference, horizontal angle and horizontal distance, and cultivate their hands-on ability and basic skills of surveying work. The main instruments and equipments in the measuring room are level meter, latitude and longitude meter, electronic latitude and longitude meter, total station and rangefinder, etc. With an experimental area of 280m, a total asset value of 631,000 yuan, and 115 sets of instruments and equipments, it can open 6 experimental projects, such as the use of level meter, inspection and calibration of level meter, the use of latitude and longitude meter, inspection and calibration of latitude and longitude meter, and the use of total station meter and inspection and calibration of total station meter.
The Road Room is a professional laboratory for practical teaching of the course "Roadbed Pavement Testing Technology" in the Department of Civil Engineering, majoring in road and bridge engineering technology. Road room is mainly for roadbed, pavement material performance indicators. Through the experiment to make students have a clear understanding of highway engineering testing technology, and make students basically master the roadbed pavement engineering testing technology methods, improve students' hands-on ability and the ability to operate road testing equipment. The main instruments and equipments in the road room are pressure testing machine, pavement bending instrument, bearing ratio tester, asphalt content tester, etc., with an experimental area of 480m, a total value of 532,000 yuan, and 100 sets of instruments and equipments, which can be opened to test compaction test by sand filling method, smoothness test by 3m straightedge, smoothness test by continuous leveling instrument, resilient modulus test by small bearing plate, resilience modulus test by field bearing plate, and resilience modulus test by soil base by field bearing plate. The test of rebound modulus of soil base measured by small bearing plate, bearing ratio (CBR) test, Beckman beam test of rebound bending test of roadbed, needle penetration test of petroleum asphalt, asphalt softening point test (global method), asphalt mixture Marshall stability test and other 14 experimental projects. Mechanics of Materials Room is the basic laboratory for the experimental teaching of "Mechanics of Materials" and "Engineering Mechanics" courses for undergraduates and graduates of twenty majors in engineering. Through experiments, it cultivates students' ability to link theory with practice and their ability to analyze and solve problems. Mechanics of materials room experimental area of 626m, the total value of assets of 2.228 million yuan, the number of sets of instruments and equipment 164 sets, has opened seven experimental programs.
Mechanics of materials (Ⅰ) room is mainly for the mechanical properties of metal materials test. The main instruments and equipment are universal materials testing machine, torsion testing machine. Open experiments are mild steel and casting tensile and compression experiments, mild steel modulus of elasticity determination, torsion damage experiments and straight beam bending positive stress experiments.
Mechanics of materials (Ⅱ) room is mainly to verify the theoretical and stress analysis experiments. The main instruments and equipments are pure bending beam experimental device, bending and torsion combined deformation experimental device, tensile and compression experimental device. The experiments include the determination of the modulus of elasticity of mild steel, straight beam bending stress experiments, the determination of the modulus of elasticity of shear, compression bar stability experiments and bending and torsion combination of experiments. HVAC Comprehensive Room is a professional laboratory for practical teaching of "Refrigeration Technology" and "Air Conditioning Engineering" courses in the Department of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineering Technology of the Civil Engineering Department, and it is a teaching base for cultivating students' experimental skills and hands-on ability. In the HVAC laboratory, students can understand the structure and working principle of the equipment through the transparent equipment, and carry out experiments on refrigeration, heating and system troubleshooting. HVAC Comprehensive Room The main instruments and equipment in the HVAC Comprehensive Room are central air-conditioning teaching laboratory, new central air-conditioning laboratory, anemometer and temperature and humidity meter, etc., with an experimental area of 205m, a total asset value of RMB 350,900 yuan, and 13 sets of instruments and equipment, which can be used to set up five experiments: refrigeration experiments, heating experiments, air-conditioning experiments, refrigeration system troubleshooting (12) and heating system troubleshooting (3). Project.