Dr Don Cameron

Standards Australia, Committee BD25, Residential Slabs and Footings

Footings Group Committee, IEAust. (South Australia)

BEng (Civil Eng)

MEng (Civil Eng)

PhD, University of Sydney

• Pavement evaluation by repetitive loading
• Dependence of the cyclic stiffness of cohesive subgrades on soil suction, density and total stress state
• Evaluation of recycled and modified materials for pavement construction purposes
• Managing the movement due to trees planted in expansive soils in a semi-arid climate, subjected to water restictions
• Improving rail subgrade on wet clay sites by restoring vegetation in the rail corridor
• Footpath design to enhance street tree growth and reduce pavement distortion
• Identification of collapsing soils, predicting the influence of such soils on buildings and reducing the collapse potential with in-situ treatments
• Flexible pipes buried in granular backfill

Cameron, D. A. and Carter, J. P. (2009). A constitutive model for sand based on non-linear elasticity and state parameter. Computers and Geotechnics, Elsevier, online 11 June 2009.

Cameron, D. A. and Mills, K. G. (2009). Tree water use, soil suctions and reference evapotranspiration in a semi-arid climate. Proc. 4th Asia-Pacific Conf. Unsaturated Soils, Nov, Newcastle.

Cameron, D. A. and Potter, W. (2008). Resilient modulus of clay subgrades. Proc 23rd ARRB Conference, Research – partnering with practitioners, Adelaide, 30July to 1August, on CD.

Beal, N. and Cameron, D. A. (2007). A method for evaluating the influence of trees on expansive soil movement in light of case studies from SE Queensland. Proc. 10th ANZ Conference on Geomechanics, Common Ground, Brisbane, Oct 2007, V2, pp 200-205.

Nuntasarn, R., Cameron, D. A. and Mitchell, P. W. (2007). South Australian collapsing soils. Australian Geomechanics J, V42(2), pp 1-12.

Cameron, D. A., Jaksa, M. B., Potter, W. and O’Malley, A. (2006). “The Influence of Trees on Expansive Soils in Southern Australia”, Chapter 21 in Expansive Soils: Recent Advances in Characterization and Treatment, ISBN: 0415396816, eds. Al-Rawas, A. A. and Goosen, M. F. A., Taylor and Francis (UK), pp 295-314.

Cameron, D. A. (2006). “Role of vegetation in stabilizing highly plastic clay subgrades”, invited lecture, International Conference on Railway Track Foundations, eds. Ghataora, G. S. and Burrow, M. P. N., Birmingham, UK, September 11-13, Birmingham University Press, pp 165-186.

Cameron, D. A. and Nuntasarn, R. (2006). Pavement Engineering Parameters for Thai Collapsible Soil. Proceedings, 4th Int. Conf. on Unsaturated Soils, Arizona, April 2-6, V1, pp 1061- 1072.

Potter, W. and Cameron, D. A. (2005). Potential Remediation of Rail Track Foundations in Poorly Drained Clay Sites with Native Vegetation. Proc. the 7th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, June, Trondheim.

Fityus, S. G., Cameron, D. A. and Walsh, P. F. (2005). The Shrink Swell Test. ASTM Geotechnical Testing J, V28, No 1, January, pp 1-10.

Cameron, D. A. and Carter, J. P. (2005). Flexible Pipes in Trenches with Stiff Clay Walls. Proc. 11th International Conference of IACMAG (International Association of Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics), Turin, Italy, June.

Li, J. and Cameron, D.A. (2002). Case Study of Courtyard House Damaged by Expansive Soils. ASCE, J. of Performance of Constructed Facilities, v16, no. 4, pp. 169-175.

Cameron, D.A. (2001). The Extent of Soil Desiccation near Trees in a Semi-Arid Environment. Int. J. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, v19, no. 3 and 4, pp 357-370.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Civil Engineering

• Soils
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Soil testing for engineering purposes
• Soil deformation
• Footing design and rectification
• Buried pipe installations