
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Pacific Blue Metal Pty Ltd
Site
Pacific Blue Metal Testing Laboratory – Pacific Blue Metal Laboratory
Accreditation No.
16993
Site No.
18519
Date of Accreditation
20 Jan 2010
Address
113-116 Possum Brush Road
Possum Brush, NSW 2430
Australia
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 | Clay and fine silt | Settling |
AS 1141.33, RMS (NSW) Method T268 |
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Organic impurities | Colour test |
AS1141.34, RMS (NSW) Method T260 |
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Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.32 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted | AS 1141.4 | |
Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials |
AS 1141.19, RMS (NSW) Method T107;TfNSW T107; |
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Shape | Average least dimension |
AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2, RMS (NSW) Methods T235, T275 |
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Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable |
AS 1141.6.1, RMS (NSW) Method T209 |
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Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1, RMS (NSW) Method T201 |
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Shape | Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14, RMS (NSW) Method T213 |
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Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water |
AS 1141.5, RMS (NSW) Method T210 |
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Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.12, RMS (NSW) Method T203 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution |
AS 1141.24, RMS (NSW) Method T266 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cohesion of compacted material | Unconfined | AS 1141.52 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable |
AS 1141.21, RMS (NSW) Method T205 |
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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 - Asphalt extraction and grading | Asphalts | Bitumen content and aggregate grading | Reflux |
AS/NZS 2891.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T607 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt mechanical properties | Asphalts | Marshall stability and flow | Not applicable |
AS/NZS 2891.5, Australian Airports Association Method MT001 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt specimen manufacture | Asphalts | Specimen compaction; Specimen conditioning | Gyratory compaction; Handling and conditioning |
AS/NZS 2891.2.1, AS/NZS 2891.2.2 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Asphalt volumetric properties | Asphalts | Bulk density; Maximum density; Voids and density relationship | Mensuration; Methylated spirits displacement; Not applicable; Presaturation |
AS/NZS 2891.7.3, AS/NZS 2891.8, AS/NZS 2891.9.2, AS/NZS 2891.9.3, RMS (NSW) Method T605 |
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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, RMS (NSW) Method T301 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions |
AS 1012.12.1, RMS (NSW) Method T316 |
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Compressive strength | Cylinder |
AS 1012.9, RMS (NSW) Method T306 |
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Specimen preparation | Capping of compressive strength specimens | RMS (NSW) Method T305 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory |
AS 1012.8.1, RMS (NSW) Method T304 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Pavement shape | Road pavements | Surface deviation | Straight edge |
RMS (NSW) Method T183 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Deflection monitoring | RMS (NSW) Method T199;TfNSW T199; | |
Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam | RMS (NSW) Method T160 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1, RMS (NSW) Method T113;TfNSW T113; |
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Liquid limit | Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1, RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105; |
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Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1, RMS (NSW) Method T106;TfNSW T106; |
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Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS1289.2.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T120 |
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Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1, RMS (NSW) Method T109;TfNSW T109;TfNSW T105; |
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Liquid limit | Casagrande four point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, RMS (NSW) Method T108;TfNSW T108;TfNSW T105; |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | 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, RMS (NSW) Methods T111, T130 |
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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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Dry density/moisture content relationship | Three compaction point |
RMS (NSW) Method T162 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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Relative compaction | Not applicable |
RMS (NSW) Method T166 |
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Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1, RMS (NSW) Method T173 |
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Density - In-situ | Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1 |
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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 |
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Penetration in-situ | Perth sand penetrometer |
AS1289.6.3.3 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry |
RMS (NSW) Method T114 |
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Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1, RMS (NSW) Methods T117, T132 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil permeability | Soils | Permeability | Constant head for a remoulded specimen; Falling head for a remoulded specimen |
AS 1289.6.7.1, AS 1289.6.7.2 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment |
RMS (NSW) Method T103;TfNSW T103;TfNSW T105; |
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Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1, RMS (NSW) Methods T102;TfNSW T102;TfNSW T105;,T105 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Stabiliser working time | Not applicable | RMS (NSW) Method T147 | |
Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
RMS (NSW) Methods T116, T131 |
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Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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Not applicable | Quarry aggregate from a rock spall |
AS 1141.3.2, RMS (NSW) Method T100 |
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Asphalts | Not applicable | Uncompacted asphalt |
AS/NZS 2891.1.1 |
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Not applicable | Extraction of an asphalt core - Dry technique; Extraction of an asphalt core - Wet technique |
AS 2891.1.2 |
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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 | Site selection - Random sampling | AS 1289.1.4.1 | ||
Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile |
AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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Accreditation No.
16993
Site No.
18519
Print date
22 May 2022