The One-Story Wing—Building B
This wing is devoted mainly to three additional laboratories of experimental
engineering. One of these is to be used for road materials testing.
It is equipped with abrasive machine, ball mill, molding press for briquetting,
impact cementation tester, toughness tester, rock crusher and brick rattler,
compression tester, diamond core drill, diamond rock saw, grinding lap, Westphal
balance, specific gravity apparatus and sets of sieves. For bituminous
road materials there are a penetrometer, ductility machine, viscosimeters,
extractor, oil tester, pyknometers, flow plates, gas and electric hot plates, and
accessory apparatus for testing bituminous road binders.
The second laboratory in this wing is the power laboratory. Here are
found the units for steam and gas power testing; steam boiler, steam engines,
turbines, gas engines, condensers, air compressor, and auxiliary equipment
such as indicators, thermometers, gages, planimeters, standards for their
calibration and correction, Orsat apparatus, calorimeters, etc. In addition to
the above, the complete boiler equipment of the University boiler plant is
available for student tests.
Also in this group is the structural materials laboratory. Here are placed
standard machines for tensile, compressive and transverse tests of both metals
and wood; torsion machine, impact testing machine, fatigue test machine,
scleroscope, wire testing machines; extensometers, compressometers and tools
for shearing tests of metals and timber. On a mezzanine are an office and an
apparatus room. An office for the instructing staff in surveying is located in
this wing, and directly connecting with it is the instrument room for surveying
classes. This equipment includes compasses, transits and levels of various
makes, hand levels and clinometers, plane tables, sextant, leveling rods, telemeter
rods, signal poles, chains, tapes, pins and so on. For hydraulic surveys
there are hook gage and current meter. The facilities of this wing also include
a locker room and lavatory easily accessible.
