Professor Simon Quinn CEng, FIMechE
Director
Simon's primary technical expertise is in experimental stress analysis and structural testing. He has twenty years of structural integrity experience, which has also involved numerical analysis and design work. He is the Director of RIfI and has worked on a number of projects outside his own specific area of expertise, where his skills as both an experimentalist and a professional engineer have been utilised. Simon is also an experienced bid and project manager and supported many consultancy and research projects in this capacity. Since joining RIfI in 2003 Simon has worked on more than 150 consultancy projects. For the previous five years Simon was employed by Amec Foster-Wheeler, where he gained experience in seismic analysis, design and assessment of nuclear safety related plant.
Simon has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and PhD from the University of Liverpool. His PhD research used thermoelastic stress analysis (TSA) to determine the stress concentration factors (SCFs) from a variety of complex hole geometries in flat plates and cylinders.
Simon's research interests are in the industrial application of full-field imaging techniques for experimental stress analysis and non-destructive testing. This work is funded from a variety of sources, EPSRC, TSB and directly from industry. Simon has published more than 75 papers in archival journals and conference proceedings.
Simon has a number of external roles with professional institutes (IMechE, BSSM amd SEM) and is a member of the IoP.