National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Rare Earth CMT Laboratories Pty Ltd
Site
Ulverstone Laboratory
Accreditation No.
20328
Site No.
24290
Date of Accreditation
21 Feb 2018
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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Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate abrasion | Aggregates | Abrasion resistance | Los Angeles machine value | AS 1141.23 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate contaminants | Aggregates | Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |
Coarse aggregate quality | Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1, RC (Vic) Method 372.01 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.11.1 | |
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 | |||
Shape | Average least dimension | AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2 | |||
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.12 | |||
Shape | Flakiness | AS 1141.15 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on fine aggregate | AS 1141.25.3, RC (Vic) Method 370.05 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Penetration depth | Ball embedment | Austroads Method AGPT/T251 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 | |
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 | |||
Plasticity index | Casagrande | AS 1289.3.3.1 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 | |||
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 | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class | AS 1289.3.8.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Density - In situ | Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.8.1 | |
Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.14 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
Characteristic field density values | Not applicable | RC (Vic) Method 316.00 | |||
Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in situ | Dynamic cone | AS 1289.6.3.2 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Assignment of CBR and percent swell; Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 RC (Vic) Method 324.01 | |
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 | Not applicable | Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a windrow | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Aggregates; Soils | Not applicable | Site selection - Systematic random stratified sampling | RC (Vic) Method 316.10 | ||
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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Accreditation No.
20328
Site No.
24290
Print date
02 Nov 2024