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Dr Morris De Beer, a principal researcher and CSIR Built Environment Fellow, is an international expert in road pavement engineering, particularly in the field of mechanistic road pavement design, road materials, accelerated road pavement testing, laboratory data interpretation, tyre-road surface contact stress measurements and associated data interpretation.
Current activities and research interests
- Development of fifth generation of stress-in-motion (SIM) systems for 3D tyre-pavement contact stresses of moving pneumatic tyres of vehicles
- Participation in the re-evaluation of the current South African Mechanistic Design and Analysis System
- Accelerated pavement testing (APT) devices (full-scale and 1/3rd scale devices) - load and contact stress inputs for testing purposes
- Value addition to Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) testing as part of APT
- Associated editor of International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design (RMPD)
Formal education
BSc Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria (UP), 1981
BSc Honours Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria (UP), 1982
MSc - Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria (UP), 1986
PhD - Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria (UP), 1990
Experience
De Beer joined the CSIR in 1976 as a technician in the soil laboratory. He obtained his PhD in civil engineering in 1990. He has been active in the areas of road pavement materials, new design and analysis methods, APT with the HVS, and rehabilitation of pavements since the late 1970s. During the past 26 years, De Beer has published more than 65 research reports and 20 international papers as main author, and 38 as co-author, on both flexible and rigid pavement systems and pavement materials, including road pavement design, analysis, materials, APT and tyre-pavement interaction with his locally developed tyre/pavement stress-in-motion (SIM) system.
Organisational details
PO Box 395
Pretoria
0001
South Africa
Tel: +27 12 841 2953
Fax: +27 12 842 7114
Email: mbeer@csir.co.za
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