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Modern Education Society’s

College of Engineering, Pune – 411 001

Dept.: Mechanical Engineering Dept.

NI LabVIEW Academy Incharge: Prof.A.Mitra (9420320632)

Prof.V.R.Varude (9404184920)

NI LabView Academia Lab (505)

Introduction:

The laboratory includes all types of data acquisition systems as per requirement of

UG and PG for Mechanical as well as E&TC Department syllabus of University of Pune. It

consists of all sort of sensors and Data acquisition module like Vibrations, Temperature,

Pressure, Strain, Sound, Image Processing and Data Communication. This laboratory is

divided in 2 sections with removable partition and also can be treated as virtual class room

with facilities like video conferencing for 60 seating capacity at a time.

Benefits to Students, Faculty, and Institute:

To Students:

Meet curriculum requirements of both UG and PG students and do more hands-on

hardware interdisciplinary projects

Do in-house final year real time project

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Do globally recognized certification

Opportunity to get in to core engineering industries

Competing with globally challenging students with strong knowledge in

fundamentals

Participating in National & International Conferences,

publications in National and International Journals

To Faculty:

Teaching engineering with more practical way and industry standard technology

Completion of PhD using the industry standard technology

Participating in National & International Conferences,

Publications in National & International journals

Joint proposal submission to funding agencies in association with NI technology

Revenue generation by doing training & Consultancy

To Institute:

NI Authorized LabVIEW Academy School

NI Logo in the Participation Certificate.

MoU between NI & Institute

Institute name in flagship award winning website of NI and global recognition

Revenue Generation.

Transforming to Research and Development

Recognition with NAAC, NBA, ABET accreditation agencies.

Multiple departments (ECE, EEE, EIE, MECH, CSE) can use the facility of

Academy

Career development and job opportunity through community.

Tight interaction between Industry & Institute relations

Facilities available in the lab:

i. 60 All-in-One computers.

ii. Furniture: Special designed table with 60 seating capacity.

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iii. 2 Overhead projectors

iv. 2 AC systems with 1.5tonnage capacity

v. 2 White boards

vi. Audio systems.

vii. Networking Facilities.

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Syllabus Covered under NI Lab (505)

S.E. (Mechanical, Mechanical Sandwich & Automobile) – II (2012 Pattern)

Strength of Materials (202051)

i. Experimental verification of flexural formula in bending for cantilever beam.

ii. Experimental verification of flexural formula in bending for simply supported beam.

iii. Measurement of stresses and strains in beams for different end conditions using strain

gauges.

iv. Torsion Test on circular bar.

T.E. (Mechanical) - 2012 Course

Mechatronics [302050]

i. Measurement of Load / Force using Load Cell*(Estimation of unknown weight using

above voltage characteristics)

ii. Measurement of Temperature : Thermocouple, Thermistor & RTD and comparative

analysis (estimation of sensitivity)

iii. Measurement of displacement using LVDT characteristics.

iv. Interfacing of any Sensor with Data Acquisition System

v. PLC control system: - ladder logic implementation on real time system.

vi. Ladder Diagram development for different types of Logic Gates using suitable

Software

vii. Real Time Temperature / Flow Control using PID Control system.

viii. PID control Design, Tuning using suitable Simulation Software

ix. PID Control Implementation on DC Motor Speed Control System

x. Demonstration of Bottle Filling System using PLC / Microcontroller / Relays System

xi. Study of Modeling and Analysis of a typical Mechanical System (Estimation of poles,

zeros, % overshoot, natural frequency, damping frequency, rise time, settling time)

B E (Mechanical) Part I (2008 Course)

DYNAMICS OF MACHINERY (402042)

i. To determine the natural frequency of damped vibration of single degree freedom

system and to find its damping coefficient.

ii. To verify natural frequency of torsional vibration of two rotor system and position of

node.

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iii. To determine critical speed of single rotor system.

iv. To determine resonance frequency of transverse vibration of beam.

v. To determine the frequency response curve under different damping conditions for

single degree freedom system of vibration.

vi. To study shock absorbers and to plot transmissibility curve.

vii. Measurement of vibration parameters like frequency, amplitude, velocity, acceleration

of any vibrating system by using vibration measuring instruments.

viii. Noise measurement and analysis using appropriate instrument

ix. Analysis of machine vibration, signature, using any analysis software package.

M. E. (Mechanical) (Design Engineering) 2013-Course

Lab Practice [502206]

i. Measurement of strain in cantilever beam using strain gauges

ii. Assignment on instrumentation and data collection

iii. Determination of natural frequencies & modal analysis of a machine component using

FFT Analyzer

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List of NI Module

Sr.

No

Module Name Usage

1 NI9234

for sound , vibration and modal analysis

2 NI 9213

for temperature related applications using thermocouples

3 NI 9217

for temperature related applications using RTDs

4 NI 9219

Universal DAQ card for temperature, strain, voltage, current

measurements

5 NI 9401

for Digital input/output applications

6 NI 9263

Voltage output DAQ card used during control of any system

7 NI 9265

Current output DAQ card used during control of any system

8 NI USB-

6008/6009

Basic analog input/output card for small applications

9 NI cDAQ™-9171

Single slot chassis USB powered

10 NI cDAQ™-9174

4 channel chassis with external adapter

11 NI cRIO 9075

FPGA based controller & chassis

12 myRIO

Dynamic box with multiple features, analog I/O, digital I/O,

USB interface and wi-fi connectivity

13 ELVIS II

All-in-one box along with add-on boards for communication,

mechatronics, controls, bio medical instrumentation and many

more

14 Emona DATEx

Add-on board for analog and digital communications along with

course wafre covering more than 30+ experiments

15 Smart Camera kit Smart camera kit for image processing related applications

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Projects completed under NI Lab (505)

Project#1 -

S.E. (Mechanical, Mechanical Sandwich & Automobile) – II (2012 Pattern)

Strength of Materials (202051)

i. Experimental verification of flexural formula in bending for cantilever beam.

ii. Experimental verification of flexural formula in bending for simply supported

beam.

iii. Measurement of stresses and strains in beams for different end conditions

using strain gauges.

All the three experiments mentioned above were conducted in Sem-II of educational year

2013-14

Revenue generation in terms of Savings Rs. 1,05,750/- reference to quotation

given by Krishtech Automations (Experimental Set up developed INHOUSE)

As these practical included in new syllabus of SE 2012 Pattern and most of the

colleges did not have the set up. Therefore, for conduction of these experiments

quotation is prepared a mentioned below

i. Batch size: Maximum 20-22 students per batch

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ii. Charges for conduction of experiments are Rs. 2,000/- per experiment

per batch.

iii. Payment strictly by Cheque / Demand draft favoring "MES's Research &

Development Center" payable at Pune

iv. The schedule for practical will be fixed with mutual convenience.

Project#2 –

#“NI YANTRA – A Project Competition”:

One of the Data Acquisition System project done by electronics dept. students guided by

Prof. A. Mitra and Prof. S. B. Deshpande was selected in project competition NIYANTRA -

2014 organized by National Instruments. Out of 750 teams from all over India 66 teams were

selected for Round-2 and our college team is one of them where maximum no. of compotator

was from Prime institutes like IIT „s & NIT‟s. The list of selected team is shown below and

NY-10 is our Team ID.

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Project#3 –

UG Project: Development of shock absorber test-rig for optimizations of vehicle

suspension systems.

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This project is done by 2 groups from final year from Mechanical Branch and 1 group from

E&TC Branch as their final year project under the guidance of Prof.A.Mitra. This project is

fabricated in our campus under multi-disciplinary project which carries good weightage in

NAAC/NBA documents. This project enhances the domain knowledge of Data Acquisition

System using NI Hardware and LabView software which was beneficial for their placement

activities (4 students from Mechanical was placed) . The fabrication cost of this project

Rs.26,418/-.

Out of three groups, One group is participating in project competitions organized by

Sinhgad College and Two groups are presenting their work in International Conference

ICTACEM-2014 organized by IIT, Kharagpur.

This project is used to perform some of the experiments in Vibrations Lab for U.G/P.G.

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Project#4 –

UG Project: Design, optimization and control of MAV ” guided by Prof.K.A.Mahajan

One U.G. project “Design, optimization and control of MAV ” guided by Prof.K.A.Mahajan

used NI Systems for measurement of Lifting Force. The aim of the experiment is to measure

the lifting force of an MICRO AIRAL VEHICLE (MAV). It is difficult to test any MAV‟s

lifting force in static condition and in real time interval. The MAV was attached on the one

end of the metal plate and another end is fixed to the table. The metal plate is loaded with two

strain gauges on two perpendicular planes and the deflection is measured through LABview.

The propeller produces thrust by pushing air down and that deflects the metal plate.

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Project#5 –

M.E Lab Practice:

M. E. (Mechanical) (Design Engineering) 2013-Course

Lab Practice [502206] – INHOUSE Project Development

1. Measurement of strain in cantilever beam using strain gauges

2. Assignment on instrumentation and data collection

3. Determination of natural frequencies & modal analysis of a machine component using

FFT Analyzer

Determination of natural frequencies & modal analysis of a machine component using

FFT Analyzer.

This experiment must be conducted by using FFT Analyzer and approx. market cost is

Rs.11,47,715/-. But this FFT Analyzer is only dedicated for vibrations analysis whereas NI

system is able to perform all vibration analysis with measurement of strain, force,

displacement, temperature, current at the cost of Rs.7,95,818/-.

Mini-Project: Experiemental modal analysis for different sections.

Mini-Project by M.E. Design: Total 6 groups of P.G. students have done mini project on

“Experimental modal analysis for different sections” and a project report was submitted by

individual group which will explore their technical knowledge on Data Acquisition System

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and LabView software. This knowledge is very much helpful for fulfillment of their final

year project validations as per new syllabus 2013-14.

Utilization of NI Lab

Name of activity: NI LabVIEW Software training programme conducted for five days.

Objectives: Upon successful completion of programme, participants will be able to

1. To impart knowledge on data Acquisition system.

2. To demonstrate hardware and software interfacing with hands-on practice.

3. To demonstrate importance of Data acquisition system in R&D and Project.

Target group: Mechanical, Computer, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Faculty Members

No. of Participant: 05

Resource Person:

1. Ms. Preeti Biradar, NI systems, Banglore

2. Mr. Nitesh Jadhav, NI systems, Banglore

Name of Participants:

1. Prof. A. Mitra – Mechanical Department

2. Prof. V. R. Varude – Mechanical Department

3. Prof. Suhas S. Jadhav – Mechanical Department

4. Prof S. S Pansaree - E&Tc Department

5. Prof. Y.M.Ajgar - E&Tc Department

Support staff:

1. Prof. P. B. Biradar – Mechanical Department

2. Prof. C. B. Meshram – Mechanical Department

Venue: NI Lab (Room No. 505)

Duration: 05 Days 28th Oct. 2014 – 01st Nov. 2014

Time frame: 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM

Outcome:

All faculty members successfully completed following activities:

1. CLAD Certification for faculty.

2. To conduct the training programme in NI-LABVIEW Academy.

3. Imparted knowledge on data Acquisition system for R&D & Project.

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Name of Activity: Automobile Design and CAD development course by “ZEST”

Objective: Upon successful completion of programme, participants will be able to

1. To gain brief knowledge automobile design and CAE software like

CATIA, ANSYS.

2. To apply gained knowledge for their Final year project.

3. Utilze gained knowledge for campus placement

Target group: Mechanical Engineering students

No. of Participant: 30

Venue: NI Lab (Room No. 505)

Duration: 01/12/2014 To 15/02/2015

Time frame: 11:00 AM to 02:00 PM (During Vacation)

04:00 PM to 06:00 PM (During Semester)

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Ongoing Projects

Sr. No Name of the project Department Guide

1 Development of shock absorber test-rig for

optimizations of vehicle suspension by DoE

approach using NI-LABVIEW.

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. A. Mitra

2 Farm automation using NI-LABVIEW E & TC

(UG)

Prof. S.B. Deshpande/

Prof. P.N. Kota

3 Effects of Heat on a Vehicle Steering Mechanism Mechanical

(UG)

Dr. S.R. Kandharkar

4 Performance Evaluation of Planetary Gear Train

for Hybrid Transmission System

Mechanical

(PG)

Prof. V.N.Chougule

5 Quality inspection and fault detection of metal job

using wavelet transform.

E & TC

(PG)

Prof. P.B. Chopade

6 Design, optimization and control of MICRO

AIRIAL VEHICLE (MAV)

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. K.A.Mahajan

7 Detection of crack by experimental modal

analysis of beam using NI-LABVIEW.

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. S.S.Jadhav

8 Experimental investigation on influence of notch

on a rotating shaft using NI-LABVIEW

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. S.S.Jadhav

9 Condition Monitoring of Bearing by Vibration

Analysis Using NI-LABVIEW

Mechanical

(PG)

Prof. R.N.Yerrawar

10 GSM based automatic obstacle avoider robot

using LABVIEW software.

E & TC

(UG)

Prof. Y.M. Ajgar

11 Performance testing of Ice Plant using R12

refrigerant and their comparison, by acquiring

temperature and analyzing measurement data

using LabVIEW Software

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. H.S.Salave

12 Determination of Natural Frequency and Mode

Shape of Composite reinforcement of Rectangular

Plate.

Mechanical

(PG)

Dr. S.S.Sarawade

13 Controlling of Motor with PID control system

using NI-LabVIEW.

E & TC

(UG)

Prof. P.N.Kota

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14 Validation of Split AC by using R-290 / R-161 Mechanical

(UG)

Dr. V. N. Raibhole

15 Analysis and optimization of Vehicle Exhaust

Muffler System

Mechanical

(UG)

Prof. V. J. Sonawane.

16 Analysis of Crack on a plate by vibration analysis Mechanical

(PG)

Dr. S. H.Gawande

17 Vibration and Stress analysis of Hip-Joints Mechanical

(PG)

Prof. R. N. Yerrawar.

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NI lab with 60 computers.

Online Examination for campus drive in NI lab.

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FDP by NI Resource Person

NI Module for Experimentation

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Image Processing using NI Smart-Camera.

Students using NI Lab for Projects.

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Robots controlled by NI Wi-Fi Connectivity

NI Lab Incharge Prof.A.Mitra in a Technical Session.