Ian Jordaan

Ian Jordaan is a Canadian engineer with expertise in design of offshore structures for harsh, cold environments. He is currently 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. He has advised on offshore projects on Canada's East Coast, in the Caspian Sea and in the Arctic. His 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 work on the failure mechanism of ice in compression against offshore structures, including the mechanics of ice-induced vibrations. He has developed approaches to risk-based offshore design and estimation of structural loads caused by ice.

In 2005 he was named Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering^[2] and in 2011 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[3]

Education and Career

Ian Jordaan received Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a PhD from University of London, King's College, U.K., in l969. He then joined the University of Calgary’s Civil Engineering Department, working on time-dependent effects in materials and probabilistic approaches to design. In 1982 he entered the private sector, as Head and later, Vice President of Research and Development, at Det Norske Veritas (Canada) Ltd. (DNV). He led several projects related to safety of arctic ships and offshore structures, and initiated and managed the major study “Probability-based Design Criteria for Ice Loads on Fixed Structures in the Beaufort Sea.

In 1986, Ian Jordaan was appointed to the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)-Mobil Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Engineering at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.^[4] He continued his work on ice-structure interaction, with particular focus on challenges to oil and gas development in the Canadian offshore.

For his work on compressive ice failure, in 1999 he was awarded the Horst Leipholz Medal for his “contributions to mechanics”.^[5] He completed the book Decisions under Uncertainty: Probabilistic Analysis for Engineering Decisions (Jordaan, Cambridge University Press) in 2005.^[6]

In 2015 at the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, a symposium was held in recognition of his contributions to the field ice engineering.^[7]

Contribution to Industry

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

During his tenure as Principal Consultant for Ice Engineering with C-CORE, a Canadian research and development company specializing in harsh environment technology innovation, Ian Jordaan contributed to two international projects: first, developing methods of analysis for the ice loads on structures in the shallow Caspian Sea, and second, consulting on structural concepts for the Shtokman gas project in the deepwater Barents Sea. Ian Jordaan also worked with the C-CORE Ice Engineering team on design loads for the Confederation Bridge, a 13 km long bridge connecting Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Dr. Jordaan has served on or chaired national and international committees for setting and review of engineering design specifications and environmental safety regulations, particularly for Arctic and other ice-prone regions. He 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, a standard on arctic offshore structures.^[8]

Honors and Awards

Awards for Scholarship

Elected Fellow Royal Society of Canada 2011 (FRSC)^[9]

Elected Fellow Canadian Academy of Engineering 2005 (FCAE)^[10]

Horst Leipholz Medal Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 1999 for contributions to mechanics

University Research Professor Memorial University of Newfoundland 1997

NSERC-Mobil Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland 1986-1996

Elected Fellow Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 1990 (FCSCE)

Awards for Papers

P.L. Pratley Award Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 2001 for best paper in the field of Bridge Engineering

OMAE 2013 Best Paper of Polar and Arctic Science and Technology Symposium

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)

O’Rourke, B.J., Jordaan, I.J., Taylor, R.S., and Gürtner, A. 2015. Experimental investigation of oscillation of loads in ice high-pressure zones, Part 1: Single indentor system. Part 2: Double indentor system – coupling and synchronization of high-pressure zones. Cold Regions Science and Technology.

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 Barrette P. 2014. Mechanics of dynamic ice failure against vertical structures, OMAE2014-24406. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2014, June 8–13, San Francisco. ASME. 10.

Taylor, R. S. and Jordaan, I. J., 2015. Probabilistic fracture mechanics analysis of spalling during edge indentation in ice. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 134, pp. 242–266.

Jordaan, I., Stuckey, P., Liferov, P. and Ralph, F. Global and local iceberg loads for an arctic floater. Arctic Technology Conference, Houston, February 2014.

Fuglem, M., Parr, G. and Jordaan, I.J. Plotting positions for fitting distributions and extremal analysis. Can. J. Civ. Eng. 40: 130–139 (2013).

Ralph, F. and Jordaan, I. 2013. Probabilistic Methodology for Design of Arctic Ships. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2013, June 9–14, 2013, Nantes, France, OMAE2013-10533

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., Bruce, J., Hewitt, K., and Frederking, R. Re-evaluation of ice loads and pressures measured in 1986 on the Molikpaq structure, Proceedings, POAC 11 (21st International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions July 10–14, 2011 Montréal, Canada)

Jordaan, I.J., Bruce, J., Masterson, D. and Frederking, R.M.W. Local ice pressures for multiyear ice accounting for exposure, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 61 (2010) 97-106

Li.,C., Jordaan, I.J., Taylor, R.S. Estimation of local ice pressure using up-crossing rate, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 132, (2010) 031501-1to6

Jordaan, I. J., Wells, J., Xiao, J. and Derradji-Aouat, A. Ice Crushing and Cyclic Loading in Compression, 19th International Symposium on Ice (IAHR 2008), Vancouver, B.C., Proceedings Vol 2, 801-813.

Jordaan, I, Li, C, Barrette, P., Duval, P. and Meyssonnier, J. Mechanisms of ice softening under high pressure and shear. POAC 2005, Potsdam, N.Y. Proceedings, Vol 1, pp 249–259.

Jordaan ,I., Li,C, Sudom, D. Stuckey, P., and Ralph, F. Principles for local and global ice design using pressure-area relationships. POAC 2005, Potsdam, N.Y., Proceedings, Vol 1, pp 375–385.

Barrette, P.D. and Jordaan, I.J. Pressure-temperature effects on the compressive behavior of laboratory-grown and iceberg ice. Cold Regions Science and Technology, March 2003, 36(1-3):25-36

Brown, T.G., Jordaan, I.J. and Croasdale, K.R. Probabilistic analysis of ice loads for the Confederation Bridge. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 2001;28(4), 562-573

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

Tucker, B, Gillis, N., Jordaan, I., Haereid, K. Second generation gravity base structure for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Proceedings Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2001, Paper 12974.

Jordaan, I.J. and Pond, J. Scale effects and randomness in the estimation of compressive ice loads. Proceedings IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Dynamics, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2000. Edited J.P. Dempsey and H.H. Shen, Kluwer, 2001, pp. 43–54.

Jordaan, I.J. and Xiao, J., Compressive ice failure, Proceedings, IAHR Symposium on Ice, Potsdam, New York, 1998, Ice in Surface Waters, Ed. H.T. Shen, Balkema, 1999, 2:1025-1031

Fuglem, M. and Jordaan, I.J., Estimation of maximum bow force for arctic vessels, Proceedings, IAHR Symposium on Ice, Potsdam, New York, 1998, Ice in Surface Waters, Ed. H.T. Shen, Balkema, 1999, 2:947-955

Melanson, P., Meglis, I., Jordaan, I.J. and Stone, B.S., Microstructural change in ice: I. Constant deformation-rate tests under triaxial stress conditions, Journal of Glaciology, 1999;45(151):417-422 Colour Plates 423-437

Meglis, I., Melanson, P. and Jordaan I.J., Microstructural change in ice: II. Creep behavior under triaxial stress conditions, Journal of Glaciology, 1999;45(151):438-448 Colour Plates 423-437

Muggeridge, K., and Jordaan, I.J., Microstructural change in ice: III. Observations from an iceberg impact zone, Journal of Glaciology, 1999;45(151):449-455 Colour Plates 423-437.

Singh, S.K. and Jordaan, I.J., Constitutive behaviour of crushed ice, Proceedings of the Symposium on Inelasticity and Damage in Solids subject to Microstructural Change, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997: 367-379. Extended version in International Journal of Fracture 1999;97(1-4):171-187

Jordaan, I.J., Matskevitch, D.M. and Meglis, I., Disintegration of ice under fast compressive loading, Proceedings of the Symposium on Inelasticity and Damage in Solids subject to Microstructural Change, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997: 211-231. Extended version in the International Journal of Fracture 1999;97(1-4):279-300

Singh, S.K., and Jordaan, I.J., Triaxial tests on crushed ice, Journal of Cold Regions Science and Technology, Vol. 24 1996, pp. 153–165.

Xiao, J. and Jordaan, I.J., Application of damage mechanics to ice failure in compression, Cold Regions Science and Technology, Vol. 24 1996, pp. 305–322.

Jordaan, I.J., Singh, S.K., Xiao, J., Damage and microstructural change in viscoelastic materials, Proceedings of the Conference on Engineering Applications of Solid Mechanics (CEASM '95), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1995, pp. 151–156.

Nessim, M.A., Hong, H.P., Jordaan, I.J., Environmental load uncertainties for offshore structures, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 1995, Vol. 117, pp. 245–251.

Jordaan, I.J., Maes, M.A., Brown, P.W., and Hermans, I.P., Probabilistic analysis of local ice pressures, Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Calgary, Alberta, Vol.II, 1992, pp. 7–13; Also in Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vol. 115, No. 1, 1993, pp. 83–89.

Jordaan, I.J. and Xiao, J., Interplay between damage and fracture in ice-structure interaction, Proceedings, 11th IAHR International Ice Symposium, Banff, Alberta, Vol. 3, 1992, pp. 1448–1467.

Nessim, M.A. and Jordaan, I.J., The selection of design ice loads and design ice features for fixed structures in the Beaufort Sea. Proceedings IUTAM-IAHR Symposium on Ice-Structure Interaction, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, August 1989, Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. 483–506.

Jordaan, I.J. and Maes, M.A., Rationale for load specifications and load factors in the new CSA code for fixed offshore structures, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1991, pp. 404–464.

Frederking, R.M.W., Jordaan, I.J. and McCallum, J.S., Field tests of ice indentation at medium scale: Hobson's Choice Ice Island, 1989, Proceedings, 10th. International Symposium on Ice, IAHR, Espoo, Finland, Vol. 2, 1990, pp. 931–944.

Jordaan, I.J. and Timco, G.W., The dynamics of the ice crushing process. Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 34, No. 118, 1988, pp. 318–326.

Jordaan, I.J., Nessim, M.A., Ghoneim, G.A. and Murray, A.M., "A Rational Approach to the Development of Probabilistic Design Criteria for Arctic Shipping", Proceedings, Sixth OMAE (Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering) Symposium, Houston, Vol. IV, l987, pp. 40l-406.

Nessim, M.A. and Jordaan, I.J., "Protection of Arctic Submarine Pipelines Against Ice Scour", Journal of Energy Resources Technology, (ASME), Vol. l07, No. 3, September, l985, pp. 356–36l.

Nessim, M.A. and Jordaan, I.J., "Models for Human Error in Structural Reliability", ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. III, No. 6, l985, pp. l358-l376.

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