Abstract: Up to now, the postconsolidation bearing capacity enhancement of jack-up spudcan foundation has been explored using centrifuge model tests and numerical analyses, which however ignored the realistic jack-up lattice leg. ...

Abstract: The rapid jack-in process of spudcan footing tends to generate substantial build-up of excess pore pressure below the spudcan underside. An intimate knowledge of the excess pore pressure concentration is thus of significance ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a simple effective stress method for modeling the strain rate-dependent strength behavior that is experienced by many fine-grained soils in offshore events when subjected to rapid, large strain, undrained ...

Abstract: In estimating the vertical bearing capacity of spudcan foundation, the effect of the realistic lattice leg extending from the top of the spudcan is often ignored. This paper examines both the lattice leg and sleeve effect ...

Abstract: AbstractHelical anchors have gained widespread use in anchoring mooring chains for offshore floating platforms, where they are required to resist uniaxial or combined vertical and horizontal loads. Predicting the bearing ...

Abstract: Abstract Traditional earth pressure theories assumed that soil was either fully saturated or completely dry, neglecting the effects of wall displacement and unsaturated soil properties on passive earth pressure. This ...

Abstract: Abstract Current design practices for single piles in sandy soil often model the pile as a series of beam elements connected to p–y curves to represent soil–pile interaction. However, standard p–y curves for sandy soil are ...