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

• Professor
• Deputy Head, Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering

Contact Information

Ph: 709-864-7925
Em: bruce.quinton[at]mun.ca
Office: EN4032G

Expertise

• Low- and Non-ice Class Ships in Ice
• Arctic Ships and Structures
• Moving/Sliding Loads
• Extreme and Accidental Loads
• Ice Loads on Marine Structures
• Arctic Materials

Personal Profile

Member of:

• PEGNL — Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Chair-elect of the Board of Directors
• 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.8 – Arctic Technology Committee, International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2028 (ISSC 2028)

Previously:

• Member, Specialist Committee V.8 – Limit States During Accidental and Damage Conditions, ISSC 2025
• 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
• 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision

Research Highlights

• Clean Arctic Shipping Initiative
  • Project Lead – Theme 2 Project 3 – Ice & Ship Structures
  • MUN Theme 2 Engagement Lead
• Harsh Environment Research Facility (HERF)
  • NRC-MUN Full-scale Sliding Load Apparatus
  • MTS Biaxial Test System
• Extreme Loads on Arctic Structures Laboratory (ELAS)
  
  • Large Double Pendulum Apparatus
  • MUN small-scale Moving/Sliding Load Apparatus
  • 3D Digital Image Correlation and Advanced Material Characterisation
  • 272 node High-Performance Computing Cluster
• Capabilities of low- and non-ice-class hulls in ice
• Highly Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Non-Ice Class & Polar Class Structures
• 4D Pressure Method – finite element implementation of general 3D + time varying pressure fields

Research areas include:

• Accidental moving/sliding 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

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