Abstract: Driven piles in calcareous sands may have only a small fraction of the capacity of driven piles in noncarbonate sands. This has become a particular problem in the offshore and coastal areas of Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, ...

Abstract: A three‐dimensional collapse mechanism is described for analysis of the ultimate strength of laterally loaded piles under undrained conditions. The analysis is based on the upper‐bound method of plasticity theory. The ...

Abstract: Suction embedded plate anchors (SEPLAs) allow for accurate positioning, thus providing an attractive alternative to traditional drag embedment anchors. This paper presents an analytical model for predicting the behavior ...

Abstract: This paper presents a plastic limit analysis of the lateral load capacity of suction caissons in an anisotropic, purely cohesive soil assuming conditions of rotational symmetry about the vertical or gravity axis. The ...

Abstract: The PIPESTAB Pipe‐Soil Interaction Project developed a model that predicts the soil resistance to lateral motions of untrenched submarine pipelines. The model improves upon the typical coulomb friction estimation by including ...

Abstract: A plastic limit formulation was previously developed for estimating caisson uplift in cohesive soils under general conditions of vertical, horizontal, and inclined loading. The formulation considers ...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to present simplified methods for determining the three-dimensional (3D) system capacities of pile foundations based on the lower and upper bound theorems of plasticity. The failure surface ...