National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
QualTech (Tas) Pty Ltd
Site
Qual Tech Leslie Vale Laboratory
Accreditation No.
4044
Site No.
4037
Date of Accreditation
28 Sep 1992
Address
Leslie Road, LESLIE VALE
Kingston, TAS 7050
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; Organic impurities | Colour test; Settling |
AS 1141.33 AS 1141.34 |
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| Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison |
AS 1141.30.1; RC (Vic) Method 372.01 |
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| 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 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis |
AS 1141.11.1 |
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| 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 |
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| Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
| Shape | Proportional calliper |
AS 1141.14 |
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| 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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 |
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| Plasticity index | Casagrande |
AS 1289.3.3.1 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1 |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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| 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 |
AS 1289.5.2.1 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 |
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| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 In-house Method #9 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil electrical properties | Soils | Electrical resistance | Not applicable |
AS 1289.4.4.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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| Dry density ratio | Calculation |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| Field moisture content | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 |
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| Moisture ratio | Measured |
AS 1289.5.4.1 |
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| 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 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| 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 |
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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 | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
23 Apr 2024
