Abstract: After describing the predominantly dense sand site conditions encountered in the Leman field of the southern North Sea, attention is focused on a 38.1-m long, 660-mm-diameter steel pipe conductor driven from the Leman BD ...

Abstract: Optimal whole life design for railways, highways, runways, and metro lines requires an accurate assessment of how their underlying geomaterials respond to large numbers of wheel-loading cycles. This paper presents an ...

Abstract: Displacement piles are driven to support a wide range of structures. However, analysis of the stress and strain fields developed during their installation remains one of the most challenging problems in geotechnical ...

Abstract: Comprehensive measurements of the effective stresses developed during the installation, equalization, and load testing of displacement piles in a loose to medium dense quartz sand are presented. The results shed new light ...

Abstract: Investigations into pile behavior in dense marine sand have been performed by the Institut Français du Pétrole and Imperial College at Dunkirk, northern France. In the most recent series of tests, strain-gauged, open-ended ...

Abstract: Driven piles are used widely both offshore and onshore. However, accurate axial capacity and load-displacement prediction is difficult at sand-dominated sites, and offshore practice is moving towards cone penetration test ...