National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Construction Sciences Pty Ltd
Site
Warabrook Laboratory
Accreditation No.
1986
Site No.
16822
Date of Accreditation
01 Dec 2016
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 contaminants | Aggregates | Sugar | Fehlings solution | AS 1141.35 | |
Organic impurities | Colour test | AS 1141.34 | |||
Clay and fine silt | Settling | AS 1141.33 | |||
Foreign material in recycled aggregate | Manual classification | TfNSW TS 02799.51 | |||
Weak particles contaminants | Sieve analysis | AS 1141.32 | |||
Light particles contaminants | Segregation by density | AS 1141.31 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Water absorption of fine aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.5 TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |
Shape | Assessment by flow time and void content; Average least dimension; Flakiness; Proportional calliper | AS 1141.14, AS 1141.15, AS 1141.20.1, AS 1141.20.2 TfNSW TS 02799.12,TfNSW TS 02799.32,TfNSW TS 02799.36,TfNSW TS 02799.50, TfNSW TS 02799.54 | |||
Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted | AS 1141.4 | |||
Water absorption of coarse aggregate | Not applicable | AS 1141.6.1 TfNSW TS 02799.08 | |||
Particle density of fine aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.5 TfNSW TS 02799.09 | |||
Particle size distribution | Fine particles in road materials; Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 2 ?m; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm | AS 1141.11.1, AS 1141.12, AS 1141.13, AS 1141.19 TfNSW TS 02799.02,TfNSW TS 02799.04 | |||
Particle density of coarse aggregate | Weighing-in-water | AS 1141.6.1 TfNSW TS 02799.08 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate soundness | Aggregates | Soundness | Exposure to sodium sulfate solution; Methylene blue value | AS 1141.24, AS 1141.66, TfNSW TS 02806.36 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate strength | Aggregates | Wet/dry strength variation | Not applicable | AS 1141.22 TfNSW TS 02799.13 | |
Aggregate crushing value | Not applicable | AS 1141.21 TfNSW TS 02799.06 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar consistence in-situ | Concrete, grout and mortar | Slump flow | Cone | AS 1012.3.1 TfNSW TS 02800.02 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Flexural strength | Modulus of rupture | AS 1012.11 | |
Mass per unit volume - Fresh concrete | In-situ measurement using fixed volume measure | AS 1012.5 | |||
Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions; Water displacement | AS 1012.12.1, AS 1012.12.2 TfNSW TS 02800.16 | |||
Air content of freshly mixed concrete | Reduced air pressure | AS 1012.4.2 | |||
Uniformity of mixing | Not applicable | AS 1379 Appendix A | |||
Compressive strength | Core; Cube; Cylinder | AS 1012.9, AS 1012.14 TfNSW TS 02800.06,TfNSW TS 02800.07,TfNSW TS 02800.11 | |||
Compacted density - In-situ | Relative compaction of concrete pavements | TfNSW TS 02800.55 | |||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | In-situ manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens; In-situ manufacture and curing of grout and mortar cubes; Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory; Manufacture and curing of flexural strength specimens in the laboratory | AS 1012.8.1, AS 1012.8.2, AS 1012.8.3, AS 1012.8.4 TfNSW TS 02800.05 | |
Specimen conditioning | Wet conditioning of hardened concrete core specimens | AS 1012.14 | Except Clause 6.2 | ||
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement structural performance | Road pavements | Structural performance evaluation | Benkelman beam; Deflection monitoring | TfNSW TS 02795.22,TfNSW TS 02795.55 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil chemical properties | Soils | Organic matter | Titration | AS 1289.4.1.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Fine particles in road materials | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.03 | |
Plasticity index | Casagrande; Cone | AS 1289.3.3.1 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Plastic limit | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.05 | |||
Linear shrinkage | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.4.1 TfNSW TS 02795.08 | |||
Sieve analysis | Not applicable | AS 1289.3.6.1 TfNSW TS 02795.02 | |||
Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point | AS 1289.3.1.1, AS 1289.3.1.2 TfNSW TS 02795.01,TfNSW TS 02795.04 | |||
Moisture content | Drying oven | AS 1289.2.1.1 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) | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.4.2 | |
Dry density/moisture content relationship | Modified compactive effort; Standard compactive effort; Three compaction point | AS 1289.5.1.1, AS 1289.5.2.1 TfNSW TS 02795.06,TfNSW TS 02795.07,TfNSW TS 02796.01,TfNSW TS 02795.24 | |||
Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.5.1 TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |||
Maximum dry density | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.26 | |||
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 | Moisture ratio | Measured | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |
Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge; Sand-cone | AS 1289.5.3.1, AS 1289.5.8.1 TfNSW TS 02795.13,TfNSW TS 02795.36 | |||
Relative compaction | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02795.28 | |||
Dry density ratio | Calculation | AS 1289.5.4.1 | |||
Density index | Not applicable | AS 1289.5.6.1 | |||
Compaction control | Hilf | AS 1289.5.7.1 | |||
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 laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry | TfNSW TS 02795.09,TfNSW TS 02795.10,TfNSW TS 02796.02 | |
Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens | AS 1289.6.1.1 TfNSW TS 02795.11 | |||
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 TfNSW TS 02794.02,TfNSW TS 02794.03,TfNSW TS 02795.01 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell | AS 1289.7.1.1 | |
Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined | AS 5101.4 | |
Lime demand | Not applicable | TfNSW TS 02797.02 | |||
Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a stockpile | AS 1141.3.1 | |
Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer | AS 1012.1 TfNSW TS 02800.01 | ||
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.
1986
Site No.
16822
Print date
08 Oct 2024