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National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Mawsons
Site
Central Laboratory Echuca
Accreditation No.
19813
Site No.
23119
Date of Accreditation
03 May 2016
Contact
Availability
Services conditionally 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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Accreditation is held to establish new branch sitesMilbrae Griffith Branch Laboratory, Site Number 25775 | 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 | ||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value; Resistance to wear by attrition | AS 1141.23, AS 1141.27, RMS (NSW) Method T204 TfNSW TS 02799.05 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1 RC (Vic) Method 372.01 | |
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Organic impurities; Sugar | Colour test; Fehlings solution; Manual classification | AS 1141.34, AS 1141.35, RC (Vic) Method 372.04 | |||
Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5, AS 1141.6.1, RMS (NSW) Method T210 TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |
Sample preparation | Untreated bulk samples | RC (Vic) Method 301.01 | |||
Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, AS 1141.19 RMS (NSW) Method T107;TfNSW T107, RMS (NSW) Method T201, RMS (NSW) Method T203 RC (Vic) Method 375.11, RC (Vic) Method 375.12TfNSW TS 02795.03,TfNSW TS 02799.02,TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
Shape | Crushed faces | AS 1141.18, RMS (NSW) Method T239 TfNSW TS 02799.36 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2, AS 1141.20.3 RMS (NSW) Method T213, (NSW) Method T235, RMS (NSW) Method T275 RC (Vic) Method 302.11TfNSW TS 02799.12,TfNSW TS 02799.32,TfNSW TS 02799.50 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4, RMS (NSW) Method T211, RMS (NSW) Method T212 TfNSW TS 02799.10,TfNSW TS 02799.11 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on fine aggregate; Exposure to sodium sulfate solution; Methylene blue value | AS 1141.24, AS 1141.25.3, AS 1141.66, RC (Vic) Method 370.05, RMS (NSW) Method T266, RMS (NSW) Method T659 TfNSW TS 02799.42,TfNSW TS 02806.36 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cement content; Cohesion of compacted material; Sample preparation; Unconfined compressive strength | Heat of neutralisation; Stabilised pavement materials; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Field mix | AS 1141.52, AS 5101.2.2, AS 5101.3.3, AS 5101.4, RMS (NSW) Method T116, RMS (NSW) Method T131, RMS (NSW) Method T137 TfNSW TS 02795.10,TfNSW TS 02796.02,TfNSW TS 02796.07 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value; Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.21, AS 1141.22, RMS (NSW) Method T205, RMS (NSW) Method T215 TfNSW TS 02799.06,TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; T500 | AS 1012.3.1; AS 1012.3.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete | Fibre content in fresh concrete | Not applicable | AS 1012.25.1, EN 14721 Method B | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Maturity | Estimation of concrete strength | ASTM C1074 | ||
Compressive strength | Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9 | |||
Rebound number | Not applicable | ASTM C805 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
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 manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Curing flexural strength 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; Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes in the laboratory; Mixing concrete in the laboratory | AS 1012.2; AS 1012.8.1; AS 1012.8.2; AS 1012.8.3; AS 1012.8.4 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 4133.1.1.1 | |
Point load strength index | Laboratory measurement | AS 4133.4.1, RMS (NSW) Method T223 TfNSW TS 02799.21 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock strength and deformation | Rocks | Compressive strength | Uniaxial load rate controlled; Uniaxial strain rate controlled | AS 4133.4.2.1, AS 4133.4.2.2 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 RMS (NSW) Method T106;TfNSW T106; TfNSW TS 02795.02 | |
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 1289.3.2.1; AS 1289.3.3.1; AS 1289.3.4.1, RMS (NSW) Method T108;TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T113;TfNSW T113;, RC (Vic) Method 326.01 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.04,TfNSW TS 02795.05,TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
Moisture content | Correlation; Drying oven; Hot plate | AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.2.1.6, AS 1289.2.3.1 RMS (NSW) Method T120 TfNSW TS 02795.14 | |||
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, RMS (NSW) Method T111, RMS (NSW) Method T112, RMS (NSW) Method T130 TfNSW TS 02795.06,TfNSW TS 02795.07,TfNSW TS 02796.01 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class; Sand equivalent | AS 1289.3.7.1, AS 1289.3.8.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio; Compressive strength | Remoulded specimens; Uniaxial maximum dry | AS 1289.6.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T114, RMS (NSW) Method T117 TfNSW TS 02795.09,TfNSW TS 02795.11 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity | pH | AS 1289.4.3.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment | AS 1289.1.1, RC (Vic) Method 301.05, RMS (NSW) Method T102;TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105;, RMS (NSW) Method T103;TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105;, (NSW) Method T105 TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02794.03,TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Cementitious binder and granular additive content; Curing of moulded specimens; Stabiliser working time | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 330.02, RMS (NSW) Method T147 TfNSW TS 02797.04 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil thermal properties | Soils | Thermal conductivity | Laboratory measurement | ASTM D5334 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T100 TfNSW TS 02794.01 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 | ||
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile | AS 1289.1.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T100 TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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 - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | 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; Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.8.4 | |
Sample collection | Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 |
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 - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | 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 | AS 1012.8.1; AS 1012.8.2; AS 1012.8.3; AS 1012.8.4 | |
Sample collection | Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 |
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Accreditation No.
19813
Site No.
23119
Print date
01 Sep 2024