John McDougall
John McDougall

Dr John McDougall

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  J.McDougall@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I came to Edinburgh Napier in 1996, as a research fellow, following a masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering at Bolton University (1993) and a PhD from the University of Manchester (1996). I became a lecturer here in 2004 and a reader in 2008. When I get round to sorting out my application, I will apply to become an Assoc. Prof.

I began my research career with the development of an innovative geomechanical model - the HBM model, which combined hydraulic, biodegradation and mechanical behaviours for the analysis of the long-term behaviour of landfilled waste. The model was able to predict settlement, leachate discharge and gas production under specified field conditions.

Because the landfill process model focussed on a partially saturated medium, my research shifted towards the measurement of unsaturated states in waste and soils more generally.

More recently, with my colleague, Daniel Barreto, I have been researching the dynamic properties shredded car tyres-soil mixtures with the aim of utilising this mixture as a means of improving the seismic resistance of building foundations.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Dutch Sustainable Landfill Management Project

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • UK Session Co Chair, XVI European Conference in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Edinburgh
  • Conference Organiser & Chair, 5th International Workshop, HPM5 Hydro-physico-mechanics of landfills, 2013
  • Hydro-Physico-Mechanics 3, Technical University Braunschweig, Session Chair

 

Editorial Activity

  • Environmental Geotechnics Special Issue Editorial
  • Geotechnique Symposium in Print, 2009 & 2011
  • Geotechnique Editorial Panel, 2007 - 2010

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Professorial Panel, King Saud University, 2016

 

Invited Speaker

  • "From MSW to Waste Tyres", Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, 2018
  • "Earthquake Resilience by Rubber Soil Mixtures", Fukuoka University, Japan, 2016
  • Dissolution and Precipitation, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, 2016
  • Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Politecnico di Torino
  • GeoFlorida 2010, ASCE Geo-Institute Annual Congress, "Advances in Analysis, Modeling and Design"
  • 1st Middle European Landfill Conference, Keynote, Budapest, 2008
  • US NSF Workshop on Sustainable Landfills, University of Delaware, 2008
  • "Research and Practice in Waste Mechanics" Panel Member, GeoCongress, New Orleans, 2008

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD External Examiner - Indian Institute Science, Bangalore (2022)
  • PhD External Examiner - Heriot Watt (2022)
  • PhD Exam Cardiff University (2020)
  • PhD External Examiner, University of Southampton
  • PhD Examination Jury, Universidad de Cantabria
  • MRes, University of Bristol
  • PhD Technical University of Delft
  • PhD University of Southampton
  • PhD Strathclyde University
  • PhD University of Dundee
  • PhD University of Southampton
  • PhD University of Southampton
  • PhD Strathclyde University
  • PhD University of Liege
  • MPhil Heriot-Watt University
  • PhD University of Southampton
  • PhD Imperial College

 

Visiting Positions

  • Incoming: Prof Claudio Mahler, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 9 months
  • Incoming: Dr Marina Miranda, University of Cantabria, 2 months
  • Incoming: Joan Esteban, University Jaume I, Spain, 6 months

 

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Waste heterogeneity: an obstacle to models?

Conference Proceeding
McDougall, J. (2009)
Waste heterogeneity: an obstacle to models?. In Sardinia 2009, 12th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium
No abstract available.

Fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare: towards sustainable waste management?

Journal Article
Hall, D. H., Drury, D., & McDougall, J. (2008)
Fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare: towards sustainable waste management?. Geological Society Special Publications,

Landfill modelling challenge: HBM modelling predictions

Journal Article
McDougall, J. (2008)
Landfill modelling challenge: HBM modelling predictions. Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management, 161, 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1680/warm.2008.161.4.147
Two laboratory-scale consolidating anaerobic reactors were commissioned, constructed and monitored by Southampton University's waste research group to investigate the long-ter...

Geomechanics and Long-Term Landfill Settlement

Conference Proceeding
McDougall, J. (2008)
Geomechanics and Long-Term Landfill Settlement. In GeoCongress 2008: Geotechnics of Waste Management and Remediation Proceedings of sessions of GeoCongress 2008, 482-490. doi:10.1061/40970(309)24
Long term landfill settlement is commonly attributed to two phenomena: creep and biodegradation. Biodegradation, which may contribute the greater proportion of long‐term settl...

A hydro-bio-mechanical model for settlement and other behaviour in landfilled waste.

Journal Article
McDougall, J. (2007)
A hydro-bio-mechanical model for settlement and other behaviour in landfilled waste. Computers and Geotechnics. 34, 229-246. doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2007.02.004. ISSN 0266-352X
A conceptual framework for the analysis of settlement and other processes in landfilled waste in relation to coupled hydraulic, biodegradation and mechanical behaviour is pres...

Hydro-bio-mechanical modelling of landfilled waste: decomposition, density and moisture retention

Conference Proceeding
McDougall, J. (2006)
Hydro-bio-mechanical modelling of landfilled waste: decomposition, density and moisture retention. In Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (167-171). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781439833766.ch25

Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of landfilled waste.

Conference Proceeding
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2006)
Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of landfilled waste. . https://doi.org/10.1061/40802%28189%29127
Unsaturated flow modelling of landfill hydraulics is a potentially valuable tool for the prediction of leachate discharge rates, design of leachate control systems and simulat...

Moisture retention and movement in landfilled waste

Conference Proceeding
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2004)
Moisture retention and movement in landfilled waste. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Problematic Soils: GEOPRPOB 2005, 307-314
No abstract available.

Options for modelling hydraulic hysteresis

Conference Proceeding
Kazimoglu, Y. K., McDougall, J., & Pyrah, I. (2004)
Options for modelling hydraulic hysteresis. In A. Tarantino, & C. Mancuso (Eds.), Unsaturated Soils - Advances in Testing, Modelling and Engineering Applications (71-82). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203970805.ch6

Decomposition and settlement in landfilled waste and other soil-like materials.

Journal Article
McDougall, J., Pyrah, I., Yuen, S. T. S., Monteiro, V. E. D., Melo, M. C. & Juca, J. F. T. (2004)
Decomposition and settlement in landfilled waste and other soil-like materials. Géotechnique. 54, 605-610. doi:10.1680/geot.54.9.605.56937. ISSN 0016-8505
The term ‘soil-like materials’ is used to refer to particulate materials that contain organic or other non-inert solids. When these materials decompose, there is a reduction i...

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