National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Australian Geotechnical Testing
Site
Australian Geotechnical Testing – Melbourne
Accreditation No.
20245
Site No.
22114
Date of Accreditation
01 Jun 2017
Contact
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Suspended Establishment of annex facilities |
Materials defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Determinations defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | Techniques defined by all or some for which the site is accredited | ||
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics |
Road pavements | Penetration depth | Ball embedment |
Austroads Method AGPT/T251 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification |
Soils | Weighted plasticity index | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 326.01 | |
| Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics |
Soils | Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.2.1 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion |
Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class |
AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density |
Soils | Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Not applicable |
RC (Vic) Method 316.14 |
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| Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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| Moisture ratio | Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Characteristic field density values | Not applicable |
RC (Vic) Method 316.00 |
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| Moisture ratio | Statistical selection of reference values |
AS 1289.5.4.3 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Statistical selection of reference values |
AS 1289.5.4.3 |
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| Density - In-situ | Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ penetration |
Soils | Penetration in-situ | Dynamic cone |
AS 1289.6.3.2 |
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| Penetration in-situ | Perth sand penetrometer |
AS 1289.6.3.3 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties |
Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell | RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |
| Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment |
Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
RC (Vic) Method 301.05 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 RC (Vic) Method 301.01 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity |
Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS 1289.7.1.1 |
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Suspended Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation |
Soils | Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Lime stabilisation |
RC (Vic) Method 301.03 |
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| Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Cement |
RC (Vic) Method 301.06 |
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| Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
AS 5101.4 |
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Suspended Sample collection |
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling from a windrow |
AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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| Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling |
AS 1289.1.4.1 |
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| Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
AS 1289.1.4.2 RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
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Accreditation No.
20245
Site No.
22114
Print date
28 Nov 2023
