RT Lab

Remote Trigger (RT) Lab is a part of the Virtual Labs, An Initiative of Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) under the National Mission on Education through ICT.

SOLVE Lab at NITK hosts two RT Labs:

1. Vibration Lab for Mechanical Engineering Students

Oscillations and Vibrations can be observed all around us. Ranging from heart beat to waves in oceans, periodic motion can be found everywhere in nature. Structures and machines in operation can be seen vibrating.

Every system has a natural frequency at which it vibrates when disturbed and left. Also if there was no damping in a system it would oscillate for an infinite amount of time. When systems are excited by an external source (continuously or otherwise) they respond in a manner which depends on the parameters such as mass, stiffness and damping in the system. It is important to study and understand such response of systems for various reasons such as to maintain health of the system, to provide comfort to humans etc.

This virtual lab offers the users with a set of experiments which when conducted will help the user to study free and forced vibrations in various types of systems. The user will be able to understand how a system responds to given inputs and will be able to calculate various system parameters based on which critical decision about operating the machinery can be taken.

Click here to see the list of experiments!

2. Strength of Materials Lab for Civil Engineering Students

Strength of material is usually the first thing which comes to mind when the structure or any machinery is need to be designed. Engineers strive to design systems that are safe, durable and economical. It is essential to know the load carrying capacity of various members of a system, that it may be a structure or a machine. 

The strength of material is the study of solid bodies under the action of external forces under working conditions, and of their resistance to deformation and failure. A comprehensive knowledge  of mechanical behaviour is compulsory for the safe design of all structures, whether buildings and bridges, machines and motors, submarines and ships, or airplanes and antennas, heavy machines, cranes, high rise towers and space crafts, etc.

This lab offers remote access to the lab equipments thereby enable students to perform real experiments through the remote trigger by using only computer and internet. The lab will help the user to understand how a system responds to given inputs and also helps to know the effect of changes in parameter on the result of experiment.