National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Validated Construction Materials
Validated Construction Materials
Site
Validated Construction Materials
Shepparton Laboratory
Accreditation No.
21342
Site No.
25701
Date of Accreditation
18 Mar 2024
Contact
Mr Tom Preston P: +61 0406256304
Availability
Services available to external clients
Scope of Accreditation
Validated Construction Materials
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 contaminants | Aggregates | Clay and fine silt; Coarse aggregate quality; Foreign material in recycled aggregate; Organic impurities; Weak particles contaminants | Colour test; Manual classification; Settling; Sieve analysis; Visual comparison | AS 1141.30.1, AS 1141.32, AS 1141.33, AS 1141.34, TfNSW TS 02799.38, TfNSW TS 02799.43, RC (Vic) Method 372.01, RC (Vic) Method 372.04 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Shape | Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2, AS 1141.20.3, TfNSW TS 02799.12, TfNSW TS 02799.32, TfNSW TS 02799. 50, RC (Vic) Method 302.11 | |
Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, TfNSW TS 02799.02, TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate; Particle density of fine aggregate; Water absorption of coarse aggregate; Water absorption of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5, AS 1141.6.1, TfNSW TS 02799.08, TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4, TfNSW TS 02799.10, TfNSW TS 02799.11 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Degradation factor on fine aggregate | AS 1141.25.3, RC (Vic) Method 370.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22, TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone; J-ring; T500 | AS 1012.3.1, AS 1012.3.5 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS 1012.12.1 | |||
Compressive strength | Core; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.07, TfNSW TS 02800.11 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen conditioning; Specimen manufacture and curing | Curing cylinder specimens in the laboratory; Curing flexural strength specimens in the laboratory; In situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens; In situ manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens; Moist curing drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory; Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.4, AS 1012.14, TfNSW TS 02800.05 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Linear shrinkage; Liquid limit; Moisture content; Plasticity index; Sieve analysis | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point; Drying oven; Gravimetric | AS 1289.2.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2, AS 1289.3.2.1, AS 1289.3.3.1, AS 1289.3.4.1, As 1289.3.6.1, TfNSW TS 02795.02, TfNSW TS 02795.03, TfNSW TS 02795.04, TfNSW TS 02795.05, TfNSW TS 0279.08, TfNSW TS 02795.14 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil compaction characteristics | Soils | Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD); Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort | AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1, AS 1289.5.4.2, TfNSW TS 02795.06, TfNSW TS 02795.07 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Sand equivalent | AS 1289.3.7.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Characteristic field density values; Compaction control; Density index; Dry density ratio; Field moisture content; Moisture ratio assessment of dry back | Calculation; Hilf; Measured; Nuclear gauge | AS 1289.5.4.1, AS 1289.5.7.1, AS 1289.5.8.1, RC (Vic) Method 316.00, RC (Vic) Method 316.14, TfNSW TS 02795.36 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in situ penetration | Soils | Penetration in situ | Dynamic cone; Perth sand penetrometer | AS 1289.6.3.2, AS 1289.6.3.3; TfNSW TS 02795.23 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable | AS 1289.1.1, TfNSW TS 02795.01, RC (Vic) Method 301.01 | |
Sample collection | Asphalts | Not applicable | Aggregate from a bin; Aggregate from a conveyor belt; Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1, TfNSW TS 02794.01 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1, TfNSW 02800.01 | ||
Not applicable | Hardened concrete by coring | AS 1012.14 | |||
Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a pavement; Disturbed soil sampling from a stockpile; Disturbed soil sampling in situ | AS 1289.1.2.1, TfNSW TS 02794.01 | ||
Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling | RC (Vic) Method 316.10, AS 1289.1.4.1, AS 1289.1.4.2 |
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Accreditation No.
21342
Site No.
25701
Print date
23 Nov 2024
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