2 Pine Trees, Chertsey Lane, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 3HR, UK Parkside Lane Dewsbury Road Leeds LS11 5SX Contact: Mr K Walker Tel: +44 (0)113 385 9157 Fax: +44 (0)113 276 0472 E-Mail: Kevin.Walker@soil-engineering.co.uk Website: www.soil-engineering.co.uk below locations: s covered by the organisation and their relevant activities details Activity code Address Parkside Lane Dewsbury Road Leeds Contact Mr K Walker Testing: Aggregates; physical tests Rock; physical tests Soils; physical tests LS11 5SX Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 1 of 6
DETAIL OF ACCREDITATION AGGREGATES Magnesium sulphate test BS EN 1367-2: 2009 ROCK Point load strength and anisotropy indices (loads from 0.05 to 50 kn) ISRM Commission on Testing Methods. Suggested Method for Determining Point Load Strength 1985 Water content ISRM Suggested Methods - Rock Porosity and density - by saturation and calliper techniques ISRM Suggested Methods - Rock Porosity and density - by saturation and buoyancy techniques ISRM Suggested Methods - Rock Characterization Testing and Monitoring, Ed. E T Brown - 1981 Slake-durability index ISRM Suggested Methods - Rock Uniaxial compressive strength (loads from 0-2000 Kn) ISRM Suggested Methods Rock Strength and deformability under uniaxial compression (Young s Modulus and Poisson s Ratio) (loads from 0-2000 Kn) ISRM Suggested Methods Rock Determination of Schmidt rebound hardness. ISRM Suggested Methods Rock GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION and TESTING - testing of soil Water content BS EN ISO 17892-1:2014 Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 2 of 6
GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATION and TESTING - testing of soil (cont d) Density - linear BS EN ISO 17892-2:2014 Density - immersion in fluid BS EN ISO 17892-2:2014 Density fluid displacement BS EN ISO 17892-2:2014 Particle density - fluid pyknometer BS EN ISO 17892-3:2015 purposes Moisture content - oven drying Saturation moisture content of chalk Liquid limit - cone penetrometer Liquid limit - cone penetrometer - one point Plastic limit Plasticity index and liquidity index Linear shrinkage Density - linear Density - immersion in water Density - water displacement Particle density - gas jar Particle density - small pyknometer Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 3 of 6
- wet sieving - dry sieving - sedimentation - pipette - sedimentation - hydrometer Dry density/moisture content relationship (2.5 kg rammer) Dry density/moisture content relationship (4.5 kg rammer) Dry density/moisture content relationship (vibrating hammer) Moisture condition value (MCV) Moisture condition value (MCV) TRL Report 273 : Use and application of the MCA with particular reference to glacial tills. (G D Matheson & M G Winter) Chalk crushing value California Bearing Ratio (CBR) California Bearing Ratio (CBR) - soaked One-dimensional consolidation properties Determination of swelling and collapse characteristics Permeability - constant head BS 1377:Part 5:1990 BS 1377:Part 5: 1990 BS 1377:Part 5:1990 Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 4 of 6
Consolidation properties using a hydraulic cell BS 1377:Part 6:1990 Permeability in a hydraulic consolidation cell BS 1377:Part 6:1990 Permeability in a triaxial cell BS 1377:Part 6:1990 Shear strength - small shear box Residual strength - small ring shear apparatus Unconfined compressive strength - load frame Undrained shear strength - triaxial compression without of pore pressure Shear strength - large shear box BS 1377 Part 7:1990 Undrained shear strength - triaxial compression with multistage loading and without of pore pressure Effective shear strength - consolidated-undrained triaxial compression test with of pore pressure Effective shear strength - consolidated-drained triaxial compression test with of volume change BS 1377:Part 8:1990 BS 1377:Part 8:1990 Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 5 of 6
Effective shear strength - consolidated drained multistage triaxial compression test with of volume change Documented In-House Method based on K H Head: Manual of Soils Testing, Vol 3 Effective shear strength - consolidated undrained multistage triaxial compression test with of pore pressure Documented In-House Method based on K H Head: Manual of Soils Testing, Vol 3 END Assessment Manager: AB1 Page 6 of 6