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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.32 |
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| Clay and fine silt | Settling |
AS 1141.33 |
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| Sugar | Fehlings solution |
AS 1141.35 |
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| Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification |
RMS (NSW) T276 |
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| Organic impurities | Colour test |
AS 1141.34 |
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| Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | in-house method DP276 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.12, RMS (NSW) Method T203 |
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| Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials |
AS 1141.19, TfNSW T107 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1,RMS (NSW) Method T201 |
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| Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.6.1 |
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| Shape | Crushed faces |
RMS (NSW) Method T239 |
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| Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 |
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| Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.5 |
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| Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted |
AS 1141.4 |
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| Shape | Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14, RMS (NSW) Method T213 |
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| Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.5 |
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| Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.6.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution |
AS 1141.24 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Absorption of compacted material; Swell and capillary rise of compacted material | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T172 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21 |
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| Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable |
AS 1141.22, RMS (NSW) Method T215 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Grout consistency | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T375 | |
| Slump flow | Cone |
AS 1012.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T301 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen preparation | Capping of compressive strength specimens |
RMS (NSW) Method T305 |
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| Compressive strength | Core; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14, RMS (NSW) Method T306 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions |
AS1012.12.1, RMS (NSW) Method T316 |
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| 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 |
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| Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens |
AS 1012.14 |
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| 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 4456.10 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring |
RMS (NSW) Method T160, TfNSW T199 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Rock properties | Rocks | Deformation | Load rate controlled; Strain rate controlled | AS 4133.4.3.1; AS 4133.4.3.2 | |
| Swelling pressure index | Not applicable | In-house method DP 300 | |||
| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 4133.1.1.1 |
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| Compressive strength; Point load strength index | Not applicable; Uniaxial load rate controlled; Uniaxial strain rate controlled |
AS 4133.4.1, AS 4133.4.2.1, AS 4133.4.2.2, RMS (NSW) Method T222, RMS (NSW) Method T223, RMS (NSW) Method T229 |
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| Slake durability index | Not applicable | AS 4133.3.4 | |||
| Indirect tensile strength | Brazil |
ISRM Brazil Test Method Part 2 (1997) |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable |
TfNSW T107; RMS(NSW) Method T107 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, TfNSW T108, TfNSW T105 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1, TfNSW T109, TfNSW T105; |
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| 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, RMS (NSW) Method T120, RMS (NSW) Method T121, RMS (NSW) Method T180, RMS (NSW) Method T2105 |
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| Particle density | Not applicable |
AS 1289 3.5.1 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289 3.4.1, TfNSW T113 |
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| Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1, TfNSW T109, TfNSW T105; |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289 3.6.1, TfNSW T106; RMS(NSW) Method T106 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point |
RMS (NSW) Method T162 |
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| Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.5.1 |
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| 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, RMS (NSW) Method T112 |
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| Maximum dry density | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T164 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T111, RMS (NSW) Method T130 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class |
AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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| Dispersion | Pinhole |
AS 1289.3.8.3 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density index | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.6.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation; Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Relative compaction | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T166 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1, RMS (NSW) Method T173 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil fine particles | Soils | Fine particle analysis | Hydrometer |
AS 1289.3.6.3, RMS (NSW) Method T190 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T117, RMS (NSW) Method T132 |
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| Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry |
AS 5101 4, RMS (NSW) Method T114 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment |
TfNSW T103, TfNSW T105 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T105;TfNSW T105; |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS 1289.7.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Lime demand | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T144 | |
| Cement content | Heat of neutralisation |
RMS (NSW) Method T137 |
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| Stabiliser rate of spread rate | In-situ measurement |
RMS (NSW) Method T136 |
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| Stabiliser working time | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T147 |
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| Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
RMS (NSW) Method T116, RMS (NSW) Method T131 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer; Fresh concrete from deposited concrete |
AS 1012.1, RMS (NSW) Method T300 |
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| 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, RMS (NSW) Method T100 |
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Accreditation No.
828
Site No.
1663
Print date
19 Aug 2022