Bruce Quinton

B.Eng., M.Eng., PhD (Memorial), P.Eng.

  • Deputy Head, Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering
  • Associate Professor
Contact Information

Ph: 709-864-7925
Em: bruce.quinton[at]mun.ca
Office: EN4011

Expertise
  • Low- and Non-ice Class Ships in Ice
  • Arctic Ships and Structures
  • Extreme and Accidental Loads
  • Ice Loads on Marine Structures
  • Arctic Materials
Personal Profile

Member of:

  • RINA — Royal Institution of Naval Architectes
  • SNAME — Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
  • PEGNL — Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Specialist Committee V.1 – Limit States During Accidental and Damage Conditions, International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2025 (ISSC 2025)

Previously:

  • Chairman, Specialist Committee V.1 – Accidental Limit States, International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2022 (ISSC 2022)
  • Member, Specialist Committee V.6 – Arctic Technology, International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2018 (ISSC 2018)
Honours/Awards/Accreditation
  • 2013 Vice Admiral E. L. Cochrane Award
    • Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
    • Medal presented to the author of the best peer-reviewed paper published by the Society from conferences, symposia, “Featured Papers”, non ship production papers of the Journal of Ship Production and Design, and non archival papers presented at the Annual Meeting.
  • 2020 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
Research Highlights
  • Capabilities of low- and non-ice-class hulls in ice
  • Harsh Environment Research Facility
    • Arctic Materials
    • Full-scale sliding loads on ship structures
  • Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Polar Class Structures
  • 4D Pressure Method – finite element implementation of general 3D + time varying pressure fields
Research areas include:
  • Accidental loads on hull structures
  • Ice loads on hull structures
  • Highly nonlinear simulation of Arctic marine structures
  • Strain-rate and temperature dependent effects on the marine materials
Selected Publications:
Book Chapters:

Quinton, B.W.T. et al. (2022).  Committee V.1 Accidental Limit States.  In Wang & Pegg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress:  Volume 2 Specialist Committee Reports.  The Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME).  ISBN Volume 2: 979-8-3507-0678-9; DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5957/ISSC-2022-COMMITTEE-V-1

Ehlers, S. et al. (2018).  Committee V.6 Arctic Technology.  In Kaminski & Rigo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress:  Specialist Committee Reports.  IOS Press. Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington D.C. ISBN 978-1-61499-863-1 (print); ISBN 978-1-61499-864-8 (online); DOI:  10.3233/978-1-61499-864-8-347.

Journal Articles:

Andrade, S.L., Gagnon, R., Colbourne, B., Quinton, B.W.T. (2023).  Ice pressure distribution model:  A geometry-based solution for high-pressure zone representation.  Cold Regions Science and Technology 210, 103822.

Andrade, S.L., Elruby, A. Y., Hipditch, E., Daley, C. G., & Quinton, B. W. T. (2023). Full-scale ship-structure ice impact laboratory experiments: experimental apparatus and initial results. Ships and Offshore Structures 18 (4), 500-514.

Price, A., Quinton, B.W.T., Veitch, B. (2021).  Shared-Energy Prediction Model for Ship-Ice Interactions.  2021 SNAME Transactions.  SNAME-SMC-2021-033.

Davaripour, F., Quinton, B.W.T., and Pike, K. (2021).  Effect of Damage Progression on the Plastic Capacity of a Subsea Pipeline.  Ocean Engineering Volume 234, 15 August 2021, 109118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109118

Davaripour, F., Quinton, B.W.T., and Pike, K. (2021).  An Assessment on a Subsea Pipeline Subject to a Diagonal Trawl Impact.  Applied Ocean Research 110 (2021) 102575, doi: 10.1016/j.apor.2021.102575

Gagnon, R. Andrade, S.L., Quinton, B.W.T., Daley, C., and Colbourne, B. (2020).  Pressure Distribution Data from Large Double-Pendulum Ice Impact Tests.  Cold Regions Science and Technology, Volume 175, 1-42, ISSN 0165-232X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2020.103033

Quinton, B.W.T., (2019) Lateral (sliding) motion of design ice loads on IACS polar classed structures, Ships and Offshore Structures, 14:sup1, 281-291, DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2019.1580844

Wulff, M., Quinton, B.W.T., Ehlers, S. (2019) Experimental study on structural responses of fibre glass plates under lateral moving, Ships and Offshore Structures, 14:sup1, 410-419, DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2019.1625108

Ringsberg J., et al. (2018) MARSTRUCT Benchmark Study on Nonlinear FE Simulation of an Experiment of an Indenter Impact with a Ship Side-Shell Structure. Marine Structures 59 (May). Elsevier Ltd: 142–157. doi:10.1016/j.marstruc.2018.01.010.

Quinton, B.W.T., Daley, C.G., Gagnon, R.E., Colbourne, D.B. (2017) Guidelines for the nonlinear finite element analysis of hull response to moving loads on ships and offshore structures, Ships and Offshore Structures, 12:sup1, S109-S114, DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2016.1261391

Daley, C.G., Daley, K.H., Dolny, J., Quinton, B.W.T. (2017) Overload response of flatbar frames to ice loads, Ships and Offshore Structures, 12:sup1, S68-S81, DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2016.1254520

Sayeed, T., Colbourne, B., Quinton, B., Molyneux, D., Peng., H., Spencer, D. (2017). A Review of Iceberg and Bergy Bit Hydrodynamic Interaction with Offshore Structures. Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 135, 34-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2016.12.005

Quinton, B.W.T., Daley, C.G., & Gagnon, R.E. (2013). Response of IACS URI ship structures to real-time full-scale operational ice loads. SNAME Transactions 2012, 203-209.

Conference Papers:

Miller, LP, Quinton, B, Soper, J, & Veitch, B. "Development of Ice-Load Algorithm for Real-Time Feedback During Simulator Training." Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 6: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology. Melbourne, Australia. June 11–16, 2023. V006T07A003. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2023-101443

Bryson, E, Quinton, BWT, & Daley, C. "Probable Ice Impact Locations and Magnitudes on a Naval Hull Form in Forward Transit Through Marginal Ice Zones." Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 6: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology. Melbourne, Australia. June 11–16, 2023. V006T07A028. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2023-104854

Gosse, J, Quinton, B, Daley, C, Kendrick, A, & Bond, J. "Using Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis to Analyze the Effects of Connection Designs on the Ice Strength of a Vessel." Proceedings of the ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 6: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology. Melbourne, Australia. June 11–16, 2023. V006T07A029. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2023-104860

Elruby, A.Y., Oldford, D., Quinton, B.W.T. (2022).  In-service Effects on the Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Steel from the KULLUK.  SNAME Maritime Convention 2022.  27-29 September. Houston, TX.

Andrade, S.L., Elruby, A.Y., Oldford, D., Quinton, B.W.T. (2022).  Assessing Polar Class Ship Overload and Ice Impact on Low-ice Class Vessels using a “Quasi Real Time” Popov/Daley Approach.  SNAME Maritime Convention 2022.  27-29 September. Houston, TX.

Andrade, S.L., Quinton, B.W.T., Daley, C.G., and Gagnon, R.E. (2020).  Numerical Study of Large Pendulum Ice Impact Loads.  Proceedings of the ASME 2020 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2020). August 3-7, 2020, Virtual, Online.

Davaripour, F. Quinton, B.W.T., Pike, K. (2020).  A Numerical Investigation on a Pipe Subject to a Non-Perpendicular Trawl Impact Using a Hybrid Shell-Beam Model.  43rd annual Offshore Pipeline Technology (OPT). February 25 – 27, 2020.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Quinton, B.W.T. (2018).  Lateral Motion of Design and Accidental Loads on IACS Polar Classed Structures.  International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures (ICSOS 2018).  Gothenburg, Sweden.  September 17-19.

Gagnon, R.E., Quinton, B., MacKay, J. (2018).  Heavy Impact Test Site (HITS) Simulations.  24th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (IAHR2018).  Vladivostok, Russia, June 4 to 9.

Davaripour, F. and Quinton, B.W.T. (2018).  An Investigation of the Load Carrying Capacity of Pipelines under Accidental and Longitudinal Moving (Sliding) Loads.  Proceedings of the 12th International Pipeline Conference (IPC 2018), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 24-28. 

Quinton, B.W.T. (2017). Sliding Loads and their Effect on the Stress Triaxiality and Lode Parameter Responses of Plates.  VII International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering (MARINE 2017), Nantes, France, 15-17 May.

Quinton, B.W.T., Daley, C.G., Gagnon, R.E., and Colbourne, D.B. (2017). Experimental investigation of accidental sliding loads on the response of hull plating.  6th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2017), Lisbon, Portugal, 8-10 May, 2017.

Quinton, B.W.T., Taylor, R.S., Kennedy, A., Veitch, B., & Simões Ré, A. (2016).  Numerical Investigation of FRP Laminates Under Ice Loading.  OTC-27331-MS.  Arctic Technology Conference 2016, St. John's, NL, Canada.

Daley, C. G., Alawneh, S., Peters, D., Quinton, B. W., & Colbourne, B. (2012). GPU modeling of ship operations in pack ice. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference and Exhibition on Performance of Ships and Structures in Ice (ICETECH 2012), Banff, AB Canada. 

Igloliorte, G., & Quinton, B. W. (2011). Criteria for the next generation of cold regions evacuation systems. Arctic Technology Conference 2011 - Volume 1, Houston, Texas, USA. pp. 187.

Kendrick, A., Quinton, B., & Daley, C. G. (2009). Scenario-based assessment of risks to ice class ships. Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA.

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