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National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Ground Science Pty Ltd
Site
Ground Science Pty Ltd
Accreditation No.
15055
Site No.
15493
Date of Accreditation
10 Nov 2003
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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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 | ||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |
Sugar | Fehlings solution | AS 1141.35 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Penetration depth | Ball embedment | Austroads Method AGPT/T251 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Description, identification and classification | Not applicable | AS 1726 Tables 9 and 10 (Laboratory classification only) | |
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
Plasticity index | AS 1289.3.3.1 RC (Vic) Method 326.01 | ||||
Liquid limit | Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 | |||
Particle density | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.5.1 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 | |
Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil consolidation | Soils | Consolidation | One-dimensional | AS 1289.6.6.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class | AS 1289.3.8.1 | |
Dispersion | Pinhole | AS 1289.3.8.3 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable | AS 1289.4.4.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Moisture ratio | Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |
Density ratio - density decay correction factor | Calculation | RC (Vic) Method 330.04 | |||
Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.14 | |||
Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Characteristic field density values | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.00 | |||
Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil fine particles | Soils | Fine particle analysis | Hydrometer | AS 1289.3.6.3 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in-situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2 | |
Penetration in-situ | Perth sand penetrometer | AS 1289.6.3.3 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell; Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |
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 permeability | Soils | Permeability | Falling head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.2 | |
Permeability | Constant head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.1 | |||
Permeability | Flexible wall permeameter | AS 1289.6.7.3 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment | RC (Vic) Method 301.05 | |
Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell | AS 1289.7.1.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Cement; Lime stabilisation | RC (Vic) Method 301.03 RC (Vic) Method 301.06 | |
Lime content | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 301.04 | |||
Lime saturation point | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 131.01 | |||
Density decay correction factor for granular materials | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 330.03 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil triaxial strength | Soils | Triaxial strength | Triaxial undrained without pore water pressure measurement | AS 1289.6.4.1 | |
Triaxial strength | Triaxial undrained with pore water pressure measured | AS 1289.6.4.2 | |||
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling | RC (Vic) Method 316.10 | ||
Not applicable | Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile | AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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Accreditation No.
15055
Site No.
15493
Print date
01 Sep 2024