Effect of skirt-tip geometry on set-up outside suction anchors in soft clay

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 1 B, Issue , 2004, Pages 1035-1044

  Andersen, Knut H ^a   Jostad, Hans Petter ^a   Andresen, Lars ^a   Clukey, Edward C ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite Element Analyses; Set up; Soft Clay; Suction Anchor; Tapered Skirt Tip

Indexed keywords

SOFT CLAY; SUCTION ANCHORS; TAPERED SKIRT TIP; THIXOTROPY;

CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANCHORS;

EID: 11244265901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2004-51564     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Andersen, K. H. and Jostad, H. P. (1999). Foundation design of skirted foundations and anchors in clay. Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Proc., Paper 10824.
2. Andersen, K. H. and Jostad, H. P. (2002). Shear strength along outside wall of suction anchors in clay after installation. Proc., XII ISOPE Conference, Kyushu, Japan, 26-31 May 2002
3. PLAXIS, (2003) www.plaxis.nl