Instrumentation

Thrust Areas

1. Design & Development of Instrumentation Pertaining to Highway Engineering
2. Non- Destructive Testing of Pavements
3. Calibration of Automatic Road Unevenness Recorder (ARUR)
4. Repair & Maintenance of Electronic Equipments

Significant Achievements

1. Development of Nuclear Density Gauges
2. Development of Axle Mounted Roughness Measuring System
3. Development of Vertical Profile Meter
4. Development of Road Geometries Measuring System
5. Development of Pavement Deflection Gauge
6. Development of Nuclear Methods for Density Measurement and Bitumen Content Estimation
7. Pavement Evaluation Using Wave Propagation Technique
8. Development of Automatic Counting, Classifier & Axle Load Weighing System for Highway Vehicles

Expertise

1. Fabrication, Installation and Calibration of Axle Mounted Roughness Measuring System
2. Traffic & Axle Load Spectrum on Highway Pavements
3. Calibration of Instrument for Unevenness Measuring of Pavements

Know How Available

1. Axle Mounted Roughness Measuring System
2. Vertical Profile Meter
3. Road Geometries Measuring System Automatic counting, Classifier & Axle Load Weighing System for Highway Vehicle
4. A Portable Device for Measuring in¬situ field CBR values of Road Pavement Material
5. Nuclear Moisture & Density Gauge

Patent Filed

1. Electronic Soil Settlement Gauge
2. Axle Mounted Roughness Measuring System
3. Vertical Profile Meter
4. Road Geometries Measuring System Pavement Deflection Gauge
5. A Device useful for Road Condition Evaluation
6. A Portable Device for Measuring in¬situ field CBR values of Road Pavement Material

Infrastructural Facilities

1. Network Survey Vehicle Vertical Profile Meter
2. Surface Density/Moisture Gauge Non-Destructive Testing of Concrete using Ultrasonic Method
3. Estimation of Bitumen content using Asphalt content Gauge
4. Dipstick for Calibration of Automatic Road Unevenness Recorder
5. Fifth Wheel Bump Integrator
6. Unevenness Indicator
7. Profilograph