Dr. Kimberly Cameron specializes in design, failure analysis and risk assessments of engineering structures and components. She has conducted hundreds of investigations on a wide variety of engineering structures, from miniature biomedical devices to large-scale process equipment.
Dr. Cameron’s investigations apply the fundamentals of metallurgy, materials science, engineering physics, computational mathematics, and engineering mechanics to help understand and solve complex problems. She has performed design and damage tolerance evaluations on medical devices, pipelines, aircraft structures, industrial machinery, power-plant components, solar panels, consumer products, pressure vessels, and vehicle components.
She also has extensive experience evaluating pipe-soil interactions, mechanical and welded joints, in-line inspection tools, regulatory compliance, and the overall integrity of pipeline systems.
Dr. Cameron is a registered patent agent, with experience in both the patent application process as well as intellectual property disputes. She has experience in biomedical, automotive, electrical, mechanical, and materials science fields and has provided numerous invalidity and infringement reports.
Areas of Expertise
Professional Associations
Publications
- Crack Growth and Arrest in Steam Turbine Casings, EPRI 3002003504, EPRI, December 2014
- Why International Inventors Might Want to Consider Filing Their First Patent Application at the United States Patent Office & Convergence of Patent Harmonization and E-Commerce, 30 Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. 555, January 2014
- Increasing Reliability of Small Punch Fracture Toughness Testing with Acoustic Emission Monitoring, Proceedings, 3rd International Conference on Small Sample Test Techniques, September 2014
- Small Punch Fracture Toughness Evaluation of Combustion Turbine Materials, EPRI 3002001468, EPRI, December 2013
- Small Punch Testing for Fracture Toughness, EPRI, January 2013
- The Effect of Low Sulfur Content on the Weldability of Linepipe Steel, roceedings of the 9th International Pipeline Conference, September 2012
- Effectiveness of Hydrostatic Testing for High Strength Pipe Material, Proceedings of the the 8th International Pipeline Conference, October 2010
- Axial Loads from Soil Movement Challenge Pipeline Integrity, PipeLine Gas Technology, November 2009
- Assessing Pipeline Integrity Using Fracture Mechanics and Currently Available Inspections Tools, Journal of Pipeline Engineering, October 2009
- Assessing Pipeline Integrity Using Fracture Mechanics and Currently Available Inspections Tools, Proceedings, 2008 Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Pipelines Conference, October 2008
See CV for additional publications.