National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia
Scope of Accreditation
Blacktop Materials Engineering
Site
Geraldton Laboratory
Accreditation No.
14505
Site No.
14534
Date of Accreditation
03 Dec 2000
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 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate properties | Aggregates | Bulk density | Compacted; Uncompacted |
AS 1141.4 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven; Microwave oven |
MRWA Method WA212.1; MRWA Method WA212.2 |
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| Shape | Average least dimension |
AS 1141.20.1 AS 1141.20.2 MRWA Method WA215.1 |
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| Particle size distribution | Sieve analysis; Sieve analysis of material finer than 75 µm |
AS 1141.11.1; AS 1141.12 MRWA Method WA210.1 |
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| Shape | Flakiness |
AS 1141.15 MRWA Method WA216.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Aggregate stabilisation | Aggregates | Cohesion of compacted material | Unconfined |
AS 1141.52 |
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| 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 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar properties | Concrete, grout and mortar | Compressive strength | Cube; Cylinder |
AS 1012.9 |
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| Mass per unit volume - Hardened concrete | Dimensions | AS1012.12.1 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Concrete, grout and mortar specimen manufacture and curing | Concrete, grout and mortar | Specimen manufacture and curing | Manufacture and curing of cylindrical specimens in the laboratory |
AS 1012.8.1 |
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| Specimen manufacture and curing | In-situ manufacture and curing of drying shrinkage specimens; Moist curing drying shrinkage specimens in the laboratory | AS1012.8.4 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Road pavement surfacing characteristics | Road pavements | Layer thickness | Not applicable |
MRWA Method WA330.1 |
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| Texture depth | Sand patch |
MRWA Method WA311.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil chemical properties | Soils | Calcium carbonate content | Not applicable |
MRWA Method WA915.1 |
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| Soluble salts | Conductivity |
MRWA Method WA910.1 |
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| Organic matter | Loss on ignition (LOI) | ASTM D2974 | |||
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil classification | Soils | Plasticity index | Casagrande; Cone |
AS 1289.3.3.1 AS 1289.3.3.2 MRWA Method WA122.1 |
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| Description, identification and classification | Not applicable |
AS 1726 Tables 9 and 10 (Laboratory classification elements only) |
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| Liquid limit | Casagrande four point; Casagrande one point |
AS 1289.3.1.1 AS 1289.3.1.2 |
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| Linear shrinkage | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.4.1 MRWA Method WA123.1 |
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| Sieve analysis | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.6.1 MRWA Method WA115.1 MRWA Method WA115.2 |
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| Moisture content | Drying oven; Microwave oven |
AS 1289.2.1.1; AS 1289.2.1.4 MRWA Method WA110.2 |
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| Plastic limit | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.2.1 MRWA Method WA121.1 |
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| Liquid limit | Cone four point; Cone one point |
AS 1289.3.9.1; AS 1289.3.9.2 MRWA Method WA120.2 |
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| Particle density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.3.5.1 |
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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, MRWA Method WA133.1, MRWA Method WA133.2 |
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| Dry density/moisture content relationship | Standard compactive effort |
AS 1289.5.1.1 MRWA Method WA132.1 MRWA Method WA132.2 |
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| Assignment of optimum moisture content/maximum dry density (OMC/MDD) | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.4.2 |
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| Minimum and maximum dry density | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.5.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil dispersion | Soils | Dispersion | Emerson class |
AS 1289.3.8.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil field density | Soils | Dry density ratio; Moisture ratio | Calculation; Measured; Statistical selection of reference values |
AS 1289.5.4.1; AS 1289.5.4.2; AS 1289.5.4.3 |
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| Characteristic field density values | Not applicable |
AS 2891.14.15 |
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| Density - In-situ | Nuclear gauge |
AS 1289.5.8.1 MRWA Method WA324.2 |
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| Density index | Not applicable |
AS 1289.5.6.1 |
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| Compaction control | Hilf |
AS 1289.5.7.1 |
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| 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 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil in-situ strength | Soils | Bearing strength - In-situ | Plate bearing | BS 1377-9 (1990) | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil laboratory bearing properties | Soils | Bearing ratio | Remoulded specimens |
AS 1289.6.1.1 MRWA Method WA141.1 |
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| Compressive strength | Uniaxial maximum dry |
MRWA Method WA140.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil permeability | Soils | Permeability | Constant head for a remoulded specimen; Falling head for a remoulded specimen | AS 1289.6.7.1, AS 1289.6.7.2 | |
| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil pre-treatment | Soils | Soil pre-treatment | Not applicable |
AS 1289.1.1 MRWA Method WA105.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil reactivity | Soils | Reactivity | Shrink/swell |
AS 1289.7.1.1 |
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| Evaluation of geotechnical and civil construction material - Soil stabilisation | Soils | Compressive strength | Uniaxial unconfined |
AS 5101.4 MRWA Method WA143.1 |
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| Sample collection | Aggregates | Not applicable | Aggregate from a pavement; Aggregate from a stockpile; Aggregate from a truck; Aggregate from a windrow |
AS 1141.3.1 MRWA Method WA200.1 |
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| Concrete, grout and mortar | Not applicable | Fresh concrete from a mixer |
AS 1012.1 |
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| Soils | Not applicable | Disturbed sampling from earthwork; Disturbed soil sampling from a face; 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 MRWA Method WA100.1 |
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| Not applicable | Site selection - Random sampling; Site selection - Random stratified sampling |
AS 1289.1.4.1; AS 1289.1.4.2 MRWA Method WA0.1 MRWA Method WA100.1 |
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Accreditation No.
14505
Site No.
14534
Print date
20 Apr 2024
