
National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Protest Geotechnical Pty Ltd t/a Protest Engineering
Site
Protest Engineering Northern NSW Laboratory
Accreditation No.
19667
Site No.
25113
Date of Accreditation
Scope of Accreditation
Withdrawn
ISO/IEC 17025 (2017)
Infrastructure and Asset Integrity
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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 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12 |
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Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 |
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Cone plasticity index; Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Plastic limit; Plasticity index | Casagrande; Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point; Cone four point; Cone one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, AS 1289.3.2.1, AS 1289.3.3.1, AS 1289.3.3.2, AS 1289.3.4.1, AS 1289.3.9.1 |
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Moisture content | Drying oven; Relative moisture content |
AS 1289.2.1.1 |
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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); Compaction to nominated levels; Dry density/moisture content relationship; Maximum dry density; Minimum and maximum dry density; Oversize material | Modified compactive effort; Oversize material treatment; Rapid; Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point |
AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 12889.5.2.1, AS 1289.5.4.2, AS 1289.5.5.1 |
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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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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Characteristic field density values; Compaction control; Degree of saturation; Density - In-situ; Density index; Dry density ratio; Field moisture content; Moisture ratio; Relative compaction | Calculation; Hilf; Nuclear gauge; Sand pouring apparatus; Sand-cone |
AS 1289.5.3.1, AS 1289.5.4.1, AS 1289.5.6.1, AS 1289.5.7.1, AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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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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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1 MR (Qld) Method Q113A, MR (Qld) Method Q113B, MR (Qld) Method Q113C RMS (NSW) Method T117 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil natural contaminants | Soils | Acidity | pH |
AS 1289.4.3.1 |
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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Accelerated weathering pre-treatment; Repeated compaction pre-treatment |
AS 1289.1.1 |
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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 | Stabiliser working time | Not applicable | MR (Qld) Method Q136A | |
Compressive strength; Sample preparation | Standard compaction - UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Field mix; UCS (unconfined compression strength) specimens - Laboratory mix; Uniaxial unconfined |
AS 5101.4 |
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Curing of moulded specimens | Not applicable |
MR (Qld) Method Q135B |
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Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck; Site selection by spot sampling |
AS 1141.3.1 |
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Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
AS 1289.1.4.1, AS 1289.1.4.2 |
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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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Accreditation No.
19667
Site No.
25113
Print date
23 May 2022