National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
RCA Australia
Site
Newcastle Laboratory (RCA Laboratories-CMT)
Accreditation No.
9811
Site No.
9804
Date of Accreditation
10 Sep 1994
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 | Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | RMS (NSW) Method T276 TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted | AS 1141.4 RMS (NSW) Method T212 TfNSW TS 02799.11 | |
Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 RMS (NSW) Method T213 TfNSW TS 02799.12 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 RMS (NSW) Method T203 TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 RMS (NSW) Method T235 RMS (NSW) Method T275 TfNSW TS 02799.32,TfNSW TS 02799.50 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 RMS (NSW) Method T201 TfNSW TS 02799.02 | |||
Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials | TfNSW T107 TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 RMS (NSW) Method T209 TfNSW TS 02799.08 | |||
Bulk density | Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 RMS (NSW) Method T211 TfNSW TS 02799.10 | |||
Shape | Crushed faces | RMS (NSW) Method T239 TfNSW TS 02799.36 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 RMS (NSW) Method T239 TfNSW TS 02799.36 | |
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 RMS (NSW) Method T301 TfNSW TS 02800.02 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Cylinder | AS 1012.9 RMS (NSW) Method T306 TfNSW TS 02800.07 | |
Specimen preparation | Capping of compressive strength specimens | RMS (NSW) Method T305 TfNSW TS 02800.06 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 RMS (NSW) Method T316 TfNSW TS 02800.16 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Water displacement | AS 1012.12.2 | |||
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 | AS 1012.8.1 | |
Specimen manufacture and curing | In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens | AS 1012.8.1 RMS (NSW) Method T304TfNSW TS 02800.05 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam | RMS (NSW) Method T160 TfNSW TS 02795.22 | |
Structural performance evaluation | Deflection monitoring | TfNSW T199 TfNSW TS 02795.55 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1; TfNSW T106 TfNSW TS 02795.02 | |
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1; TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1; TfNSW T113 TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable | TfNSW T107 TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |||
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1; TfNSW T109; TfNSW T105 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1; AS 1289.3.1.2; TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.04 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 RMS (NSW) Method T120 TfNSW TS 02795.14 | |||
Moisture content | Sand bath | RMS (NSW) Method T121 TfNSW TS 02795.15 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 RMS (NSW) Method T111 RMS (NSW) Method T130 TfNSW TS 02795.06,TfNSW TS 02796.01 | |
Maximum dry density | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T164 TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |||
Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point | RMS (NSW) Method T162 TfNSW TS 02795.24 | |||
Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 | |||
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 RMS (NSW) Method T112 TfNSW TS 02795.07 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class | AS 1289.3.8.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 RMS (NSW) Method T173 TfNSW TS 02795.36 | |
Density - In-situ | Sand pouring apparatus | RMS (NSW) Method T119 TfNSW TS 02795.13 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Relative compaction | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T166 TfNSW TS 02795.28 | |||
Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Density - In-situ | Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in-situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2 RMS (NSW) Method T161 TfNSW TS 02795.23 | |
Penetration in-situ | Perth sand penetrometer | AS 1289.6.3.3 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | RMS (NSW) Method T114 TfNSW TS 02795.09 | |
Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 RMS (NSW) Method T117 RMS (NSW) Method T132 TfNSW TS 02795.11,TfNSW TS 02796.03 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment | TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105 TfNSW TS 02794.03,TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment | TfNSW T105; TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |||
Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1; TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105 TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |||
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 | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | RMS (NSW) Method T116 RMS (NSW) Method T131 TfNSW TS 02795.10,TfNSW TS 02796.02 | |
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 RMS (NSW) Method T300 TfNSW TS 02800.01 | ||
Soils | 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.
9811
Site No.
9804
Print date
10 Oct 2024