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National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
QualTech (Tas) Pty Ltd
Scope of Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison |
AS 1141.30.1; RC (Vic) Method 372.01 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 | |
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1 AS 1141.12 |
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Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 | |||
Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 |
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Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension |
AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring |
AS 1012.3.1 AS 1012.3.5 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Cube; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9 |
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Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions |
AS 1012.12.1 |
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Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14 | |
Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; Curing grout and mortar cube specimens in the laboratory; In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; In-situ manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens; In-situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens; In-situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes |
AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.8.4 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 |
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Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Plasticity index | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 AS 1289.3.2.1AS 1289.3.3.1 AS 1289.3.4.1 |
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Moisture content | Drying oven; Hot plate |
AS 1289.2.1.1 AS 1289.2.1.6 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 AS 1289.5.2.1 |
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Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 In-house Method #9 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |
Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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Characteristic field density values; Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Not applicable |
RC (Vic) Method 316.00 |
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Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in-situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 |
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Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a windrow | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete |
AS 1012.1 |
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Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
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Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement |
AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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Accreditation No.
21034
Site No.
25294
Print date
26 Jul 2024