Rate My Professor Kevin Mills

Dr. Kevin Mills is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Construction within the College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. His scholarly contributions center on geotechnical engineering, with publications addressing key challenges in soil mechanics and construction materials. In 2021, he co-authored 'Development of a stress-strain path controlled triaxial apparatus to understand the behaviour of silty sand' alongside A. T. M. Z. Rabbi, M. M. Rahman, and D. A. Cameron, published in Geotechnical Engineering, volume 52, issue 3, pages 20-28. This work details advancements in triaxial testing equipment to analyze silty sand behavior under controlled stress-strain paths. Earlier, in 2012, Mills collaborated with A. R. Gabr and D. A. Cameron on 'Repeated load triaxial testing of recycled concrete aggregate for pavement base construction,' appearing in Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, volume 31, issue 1, pages 119-132, evaluating the performance of recycled materials under repeated loading for pavement applications.

Mills' research extends to unsaturated and expansive soils. In 2010 and 2009, he co-authored 'Tree water use, soil suctions and reference evapotranspiration in a semi-arid climate' with D. A. Cameron, featured in proceedings from Unsaturated Soils conferences edited by O. Buzzi, S. Fityus, and D. Sheng, published by Taylor & Francis and CRC Press, exploring interactions between vegetation, soil suction, and evapotranspiration. Additional publications include 'An investigation of the impact of application of anti-termite chemical liquids on residential slabs built on unsaturated expansive soils' in 2003 with J. Li, P. Bayetto, and D. A. Cameron, presented at the 2nd Asian Conference on Unsaturated Soils; 'Clay stiffness and reactivity derived from clay minerology' in 2000; 'A numerical model of ground moisture variations with active vegetation' in 2000; and 'Three Dimensional Model for a Stiffened Slab on Expansive Soil' in 1997 with J. Li and D. A. Cameron, from the 9th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. These works demonstrate his expertise in modeling soil-structure interactions and environmental influences on geotechnical stability.