Abstract: Offshore pipelines are commonly laid directly on the seabed, which is dominantly soft clayey deposits in deep-water areas. This article presents a numerical finite-element study of the undrained bearing capacity of a ...

Abstract: Offshore pipelines are increasingly being employed to transport offshore hydrocarbons to onshore processing facilities. Pipelines laid directly on the seabed are subject to a considerable hydrodynamic loading from waves ...

Abstract: Selfelevating mobile jackup units have been employed in offshore exploration and development in shallow waters at depths of up to approximately 150 m. Jackups are designed to move to a new site after operations are ...

Abstract: This paper reports numerical modeling results investigating the diving potential and optimization of offshore anchors. A simplified two-dimensional plate anchor model and a complex three-dimensional anchor model were ...

Abstract: AbstractThis paper presents findings from a set of model scale experiments involving drained, vertical cyclic loading of a horizontal circular plate anchor in dense sand. The tests, which were performed in a geotechnical ...