Foundry and Forging Lab

Foundry Laboratory is equipped with the following equipment:

  • Universal Sand Testing Machine to carryout Compression, Shear and Tensile Tests mouding sand
  • Sieves Set and Sieve Shaker to carryout Sieve Analysis and determine Grain Fineness Number (GFN) of Base Sand
  • Equipment for testing Permeability, Clay Content and Moisture content
  • Moulding boxes to prepare moulds of various types moulds using Single-piece pattern, Split Patterns, etc
  • Furnaces for heating the specimens
  • Forging Tools and Equipment such as Anvils, Swage Blocks, Sledge Hammers, Ball Peen Hammers, Flatters, variety of tongs and chisels, etc to carryout various forging processes such as upsetting, down drawing, bending, spreading, fullering, etc