
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
ADVANCED ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY AND TESTING LABORATORY PTY LTD
Site
AECTL (Sydney)
Accreditation No.
21393
Site No.
25774
Date of Accreditation
17 Mar 2025
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Manufactured Goods
- The uncertainty of measurement is reported as an expanded uncertainty having a level of confidence of 95% unless stated otherwise
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Material performance evaluation of metal products | Prepared metallic test specimens; Welded test specimens | Bending properties | Longitudinal guided bend; Transverse guided bend; Transverse joggle-butt wrap around bend | AS 2505.1; AS 2205.2, AS 2205.3.1, AS 2205.3.2, AS 2205.3.3, AS 3992 Section 13.3, ASME IX QW160, AWS D1.1 Section 4, ASTM A370, AWS D1.6 Section 4, ISO 5173 | |
Hardness | Brinell; Rockwell - Scale B; Rockwell - Scale C; Vickers | AS 1815.1, AS 1816.1, AS 1817.1, AS 2205.6.1, ASTM E18, ASTM E384, ASTM A370, ASTM E10, ISO 6506-1, ISO 6507-1, ISO 6508.1, ISO 9015-1, ISO 9015-2 | |||
Tensile properties | All-weld-metal tensile; Axial tensile; Longitudinal tensile; Tensile tests with control of strain rate, including yield stress and proof stress; Transverse butt tensile; Transverse joggle-butt tensile; Transverse tensile; Uniaxial tension | AS 1391, AS 2205.2, AS 3992 Section 13.2, ASME IX QW150 and QB150, ASTM A370, ASTM E8, AWS D1.1 Section 4 and AWS D1.6 Section 4, ISO 4136, ISO 5178, ISO 6892-1, ISO 9018 | |||
Reinforcing bar and steel prestressing materials for concrete | Tensile properties | Longitudinal tensile | AS/NZS 4671 Clause 7.2.2; Appendix C2.2 | ||
Bending properties | Simple bend | AS/NZS 4671 Section 7.2.3 | |||
Welded test specimens | Shear strength | Tensile tests with load stress and cross-head control | AS 2205.8.1, AS 2205.8.2, ISO 15630-2 | ||
Macroscopic examination | Macroscopic examination; Visual examination | AS 3992 Section 13.5, ASME IX; AWS D1.1, AWS D1.6, AS/NZS 2205.5.1, ISO 17639 | |||
Fillet-break fracture; Fracture test; Nick-break fracture | Macroscopic examination; Visual examination | AS/NZS 2205.4.1, ASME Section IX QW 12, AWS D1.1 Section 4, AWS D1.6 Section 46, ISO 9017 |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Materials
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Metallic corrosion evaluation | Austenitic, duplex and nickel-chromium alloys | Pitting corrosion resistance | Ferric chloride pitting | ASTM G48 Method A | |
Detrimental intermetallic phase | Sodium hydroxide etch test | ASTM A923 Methods A | |||
Intergranular attack or end grain pitting on metals caused by aircraft chemical processes; Intergranular corrosion resistance | Nitric acid exposure - Huey; Oxalic acid etch | AS 2205.10.1, ASTM A262 Practices A, C, ASTM F2111 Sections 7.4, 7.5, 7.6 | |||
Chemical corrosion treatment materials; Plating | Coating thickness | High frequency eddy current; Magnetic thickness gauge | AS 2331.1.4, ASTM E376 | ||
Coating mass | Dissolution - Strip and weigh | AS 1627.6 Appendix B4, AS 2331.2.1, AS/NZS 4680 Appendix G2 | |||
Coating thickness | Microscopic examination | AS/NZS 1214 Appendix A, AS 2331.1.1, ASTM B487 | |||
Metallographic evaluation of metals and alloys | Ferrous materials | Case depth and depth of decarburisation | Hardness traverse; Macroscopic examination; Microscopic examination | AS 1982 Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, AS 2003 Sections 6.1, 6.2, ASTM F2328, ISO 18203, SAE J423, | |
Detection of iron on passivated steel - Contamination test | Copper sulfate; Potassium ferricyanide nitric acid | ASTM A380 Sections 7.2.5.3 and 7.3.4, ASTM A967 Practices D and E | |||
Grain size | Comparison method; Microscopic examination | AS 1733, ASTM E112, ISO 643 | |||
Phase identification and proportion | Microscopic examination | ASTM E562 | |||
Graphite type and distribution in cast irons | Microscopic examination | ISO 945-1 |
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Accreditation No.
21393
Site No.
25774
Print date
02 Apr 2025