Abstract: The oil industry’s success in finding hydrocarbons in deep water has led to a number of important economic and technical challenges involving, among others, new drilling procedures, new structural concepts and configurations, ...

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between the sediment resisting force and embedment depth for horizontal cylinders in a vertical trench. Plane-strain calculations of collapse loads are performed for a series of ...

Abstract: The response of the soil plug within driven, open‐ended pipe piles is very different tinder the dynamic conditions of installation and the static conditions of loading during service. This paper addresses the latter aspect ...

Abstract: The environmental loads associated with the design of a caisson-type structure in a mudslide region are largely dependent upon the interaction of waves with the seabottom. This wave-seabottom ...