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National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
QualTech (Tas) Pty Ltd
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; Organic impurities | Colour test; Settling | AS 1141.33 AS 1141.34 | |
Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1; RC (Vic) Method 372.01 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 | |
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 | |||
Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 | |||
Shape | Flakiness | AS 1141.15 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Shape | Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on coarse aggregate; Degradation factor on fine aggregate | AS 1141.25.2; AS 1141.25.3 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 | |
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 | |||
Sieve analysis | AS 1289.3.6.1 | ||||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort | AS 1289.5.2.1 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1 | |||
Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 In-house Method #9 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable | AS 1289.4.4.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |
Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |||
Moisture ratio | Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
Characteristic field density values; Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | RC (Vic) Methods 316.00, 316.14 | ||||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell | RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |
Bearing ratio | Undisturbed samples | AS 12889.6.1.1 | |||
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 pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1 | |
Sample collection | Aggregates; Soils | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a windrow; Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement | AS 1141.3.1 AS 1289.1.2.1 | |
Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Random stratified sampling | RC (Vic) Method 316.10 |
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Accreditation No.
4044
Site No.
4037
Print date
31 Aug 2024