Ian Jordaan

Ian Jordaan is a Canadian civil engineer who has made contributions to the design of offshore structures for harsh, cold environments. He is a professor emeritus and university research professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.[1] He is also president of the consulting company Ian Jordaan and Associates.

Dr. Jordaan's contributions to engineering and applied science lie in two main areas: mechanics and probabilistic analysis. His work in mechanics has focused on inelastic, time-dependent and nonlinear behaviour of materials and the related analysis of structural systems. This resulted in new understanding of the failure mechanism of ice in compression against offshore structures, including the mechanics of ice-induced vibrations. Dr. Jordaan has developed new approaches to risk-based offshore design and estimation of structural loads caused by ice.

Education

Ian Jordaan received bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a PhD from the University of London, King's College, U.K..

Career

After completing his PhD, he joined the University of Calgary’s Civil Engineering Department, working on time-dependent effects in materials and probabilistic approaches to design.

In 1982, he joined Det Norske Veritas (Canada) Ltd. (DNV) and led several projects related to safety of Arctic ships and offshore structures.

In 1986, he was appointed to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)-Mobil Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Engineering at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.[2] He continued his work on ice-structure interaction, with particular focus on challenges to oil and gas development in the Canadian offshore.

Dr. Jordaan has made contributions to industry by providing advice on design issues and research approaches on a broad variety of offshore and Arctic projects. He led design loads studies for the Terra Nova and White Rose Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Systems (FPSOs), as well as the Hebron project. He also studied and assessed the pressures measured on the Molikpaq structure in the Beaufort Sea during 1986.

He was a principal consultant for Ice Engineering with C-CORE, a Canadian research and development company specializing in harsh environment technology innovation. He developed methods of analysis for the ice loads on structures in the shallow Caspian Sea and consulted on structural concepts for the Shtokman gas project in the deepwater Barents Sea. He also worked with the C-CORE Ice Engineering team on design loads for the Confederation Bridge 13-kilometre-long (8.1 mi) connecting Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Dr. Jordaan contributed to the Revisions to the Canadian Arctic Shipping Pollution Prevention Regulations, the expert panel of the RSC to study science and environmental risk issues related to oil and gas development offshore British Columbia, and to the development of ISO 19906, an international standard on Arctic offshore structures.[3]

Dr. Jordaan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was awarded the Horst Leipholz Medal in 1999 for his contributions to mechanics for his work on compressive ice failure, the P.L. Pratley Award in 2001 and the Casimir Gzowski Award in 2018, all from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. The ASME 2015 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering held a special symposium in honour of Dr. Jordaan for his contributions to ice engineering.

Selected publications

Book

Jordaan, I.J., Decisions under Uncertainty: Probabilistic Analysis for Engineering Decisions, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 672 pp.

Technical papers

(sample of 150 published papers)

Jordaan, I. 2015. Some issues in ice mechanics. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Paper No. OMAE 2015-42042.

Jordaan, I. and Gosine, P. 2012. The Titanic disaster and ice mechanics: completing the picture. IceTech 2012, Banff, Alberta, September 2012, Paper ICETECH12-149-R0

Jordaan, I.J. Mechanics of ice-structure interaction. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2001; 68:1923-1960

Jordaan, I., Hewitt, K. and Frederking, R. 2018. Re-evaluation of ice loads on the Molikpaq structure measured during the 1985–86 season. Can. J. Civ. Eng. 45: 153–166 (2018).

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | Ian Jordaan". www.mun.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  2. ↑ "Ian Jordaan". www.engr.mun.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  3. ↑ "Ian Jordaan". www.engr.mun.ca. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
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