Defence Science & Technology Group

Site

Aircraft Forensic Engineering

Accreditation No.

18053

Site No.

19840

Date of Accreditation

01 Jun 2017

Address

506 Lorimer Street
Port Melbourne, VIC 3207
Australia

dsto.defence.gov.au

Contact

Mr Nicholas Athiniotis P: +61 (03) 93443310

Availability

Services not available to external clients

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Scope of Accreditation

Print scopes

Withdrawn 17 Apr 2025

Voluntary

Aircraft Forensic Engineering

ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)

Manufactured Goods

Withdrawn
Service Product Determinant Technique Procedure Limitations
Legal management - Forensic operations module Materials defined by all or some for which the site is accredited Case record review; Chain of custody; Control of records; Court testimony monitoring; Sample/evidence integrity; Security and access Not applicable
Material performance evaluation of metal products Prepared metallic test specimens Hardness Vickers

AS 1817.1

Tests at 49 N, 98 N and 294 N

Hardness Brinell

AS 1816.1

29.4 kN

Hardness Rockwell

AS 1815.1

 Rockwell Scales B & C
Microhardness Vickers ASTM E384 tests using 0.1 kgf, 0.3 kgf, 0.5 kgf and 1 kgf

ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)

Materials

Withdrawn
Service Product Determinant Technique Procedure Limitations
Analysis for chemical composition of gas and aerosols Industrial gas supplies excluding fuels and calibration mixtures Purity Oxygen analyser

AVD-AFE-G25 006

Carbon dioxide (CO2); Carbon monoxide; Dinitrogen monoxide (nitrous oxide); Ethane; Ethene (ethylene); Ethyne (acetylene); Methane Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

AVD-AFE-G25 005

Moisture content Electrochemical detector

AVD-AFE-G25 007

Legal management - Forensic operations module Materials defined by all or some for which the site is accredited Case record review; Chain of custody; Control of records; Court testimony monitoring; Sample/evidence integrity; Security and access Not applicable
Metallographic evaluation of metals and alloys Aluminium and aluminium alloys; Austenitic, duplex and nickel-chromium alloys; Copper and copper alloys; Ferrous materials; Magnesium alloys; Nickel and nickel alloys; Titanium and titanium alloys Forensic microstructural analysis Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); X-ray fluorescence (XRF) - Energy dispersive

In-house methods AVD-AFE-G0709, AVD-AFE-G012, AVD-AFE-G1809 

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