National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Douglas Partners Pty Ltd
Site
Newcastle Laboratory
Accreditation No.
828
Site No.
1663
Date of Accreditation
30 Aug 1982
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 abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value | AS 1141.23 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |
Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |||
Sugar | Fehlings solution | AS 1141.35 | |||
Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | in-house method DP276 | |||
Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |||
Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 | |
Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 TfNSW TS 02799.12 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Shape | Flakiness | AS 1141.15 | |||
Shape | Crushed faces | TfNSW TS 02799.36 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 TfNSW TS 02799.02 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 | |||
Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials | AS 1141.19, TfNSW T107 TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution | AS 1141.24 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Absorption of compacted material; Swell and capillary rise of compacted material | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.35 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable | AS 1141.21 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Grout consistency | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02800.49 | |
Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Core; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 TfNSW TS 02800.07 | |
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
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; In situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens | AS 1012.8.1 | |
Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Masonry, concrete and clay unit properties | Masonry, concrete and clay units | Resistance to salt attack | Not applicable | AS/NZS 4456.10 (Method A) | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring | TfNSW TS 02795.22, TfNSW TS 02795.55 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Slake durability index | Not applicable | AS 4133.3.4 | |
Swelling pressure index | Not applicable | In-house method DP 300 | |||
Point load strength index | Not applicable | AS 4133.4.1, TfNSW TS 02799.21 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 4133.1.1.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock strength and deformation | Rocks | Deformation | Load rate controlled; Strain rate controlled | AS 4133.4.3.1; AS 4133.4.3.2 | |
Indirect tensile strength | Brazil | ISRM Brazil Test Method Part 2 (1997) TfNSW TS 02799.20 | |||
Compressive strength | Uniaxial load rate controlled; Uniaxial strain rate controlled | AS 4133.4.2.1, AS 4133.4.2.2, RMS (NSW) Method T229 TfNSW TS 02799.26 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable | TfNSW T107; RMS(NSW) Method T107 TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 TfNSW TS 02795.04 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289 3.6.1, TfNSW T106; RMS(NSW) Method T106 TfNSW TS 02795.02 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Particle density | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.5.1 (2006) | |||
Moisture content | Correlation; Drying oven; Hot plate; Microwave oven; Sand bath | AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.2.1.4, AS 1289.2.1.6, AS 1289.2.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.14, TfNSW TS 02795.15, TfNSW TS 02795.39, TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Maximum dry density | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point | TfNSW TS 02795.24 | |||
Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 | |||
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 TfNSW TS 02795.06, TfNSW TS 02796.01 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.07 | |||
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 field density | Soils | Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |
Dry density ratio | Calculation; Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 TfNSW TS 02795.36 | |||
Relative compaction | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.28 | |||
Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil fine particles | Soils | Fine particle analysis | Hydrometer | AS 1289.3.6.3 TfNSW TS 02795.48 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.11, TfNSW TS 02796.03 | |
Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | TfNSW TS 02795.09 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment | TfNSW TS 02794.02 | |||
Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment | TfNSW TS 02794.03 | |||
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 | Stabiliser rate of spread rate | In situ measurement | TfNSW TS 02796.06 | |
Cement content | Heat of neutralisation | TfNSW TS 02796.07 | |||
Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | AS 5101.4 TfNSW TS 02795.10, TfNSW TS 02796.02 | |||
Stabiliser working time | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02797.04 | |||
Lime demand | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02797.02 | |||
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete | AS 1012.1 TfNSW TS 02800.01 | ||
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling in situ | AS 1289.1.2.1 TfNSW TS 02794.01 |
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Accreditation No.
828
Site No.
1663
Print date
03 Jan 2025