National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Terra Firma Laboratories
Site
Pakenham Laboratory
Accreditation No.
15357
Site No.
16044
Date of Accreditation
01 Sep 2005
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 |
RC (Vic) Method 372.04 |
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| Clay and fine silt; Weak particles contaminants | Settling; Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.32 AS 1141.33 |
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| Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison |
AS 1141.30.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 RC (Vic) Method 302.11 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Methylene blue value |
ASTM C837 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Unconfined compressive strength | Not applicable |
AS 5101.4 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Penetration depth | Ball embedment |
Austroads Method AGPT/T251 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Plasticity index | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 AS 1289.3.2.1 AS 1289.3.3.1 RC (Vic) Method 326.01 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 |
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| Liquid limit |
AS 1289.3.4.1 |
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| Particle density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.5.1 |
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| Description, identification and classification | Not applicable | AS 1726 Tables 9 and 10 (Laboratory classification elements only) | |||
| Sieve analysis |
AS 1289.3.6.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 AS 1289.5.2.1 |
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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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| 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 | Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 RC (Vic) Methods 316.00 |
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| Moisture ratio assessment of dry back |
RC (Vic) Methods 316.14 |
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| Density - In-situ; Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 RC (Vic) Method 316.11 |
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| Density index | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.6.1 |
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| 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, In-house method 5 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell; Undisturbed samples |
AS 1289 6.1.1. RC (Vic) Method 324.01 |
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| 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 | Constant head for a remoulded specimen; Falling head for a remoulded specimen; Flexible wall permeameter |
AS 1289.6.7.1, AS 1289.6.7.2. AS 1289.6.7.3 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 |
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| Soil pre-treatment | Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
RC (Vic) Method 301.05 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS1289.7.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Density decay correction factor for granular materials |
RC (Vic) Method 330.03 |
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| Laboratory stabilisation of soil | Cement; Lime stabilisation |
RC (Vic) Method 301.03 RC (Vic) Method 301.06 |
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| 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 | |
| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling from a windrow; Disturbed soil sampling in-situ |
AS 1289.1.2.1 |
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| Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Manufactured Goods
| Service | Product | Determinant | Technique | Procedure | Limitations |
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| Material performance evaluation of elastomers, plastics and composite products | Bituminous geomembranes (BGM) | Shear strength | Not applicable | ASTM D7056 | |
| Geomembranes; Geonets and geocomposites | Asperity height | Not applicable | ASTM D7466 | ||
| Geonets and geocomposites | Integrity | Not applicable |
ASTM D6392 |
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| Material performance evaluation of leather, textiles and related products | Geosynthetic clay liners | Tensile properties | Wide strip tensile |
AS 3706.2 ASTM D4595 ASTM D6768 |
20 N to 5 kN |
| Geosynthetic clay liners; Geotextiles | Tensile properties | Grab tensile; Wide strip tensile | ASTM D6693 | ||
| Permittivity | Not applicable | AS 3706.9 | |||
| Strength | Not applicable | AS 3706.6 | |||
| Geotextiles | Puncture resistance | Index value | ASTM D4833 | ||
| Fluid loss of clay component of GCL | Not applicable |
ASTM D5891 |
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| Permittivity | Not applicable |
ASTM D5887 |
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| Breaking load; Elongation | Grab tensile | ASTM D4632 | |||
| Tear resistance | Single rip tear |
AS 3706-3 |
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| Swell index of clay component of GCL | Not applicable |
ASTM D5890 |
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| Tear resistance | Single rip tear | ASTM D1004 | |||
| Puncture resistance | Drop cone |
AS 3706.5 |
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| Mass per unit area | Not applicable |
AS 2001.2.13 ASTM D5993 |
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| Burst strength | California bearing ratio plunger (CBR) |
AS 3706.4 |
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| Peel strength | Wide strip tensile |
ASTM D6496 |
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| Thickness | Not applicable |
AS 2001.2.15 ASTM D1777 ASTM D5199 ASTM D5994 |
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Accreditation No.
15357
Site No.
16044
Print date
19 Apr 2024
