The influence of pull-out load on the efficiency of jetting during spudcan extraction

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-211

  Bienen, Britta ^a   Gaudin, Christophe ^a   Cassidy, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centrifuge modelling; Extraction; Jetting; Soft clay; Spudcan; Suction

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE EXPERIMENTS; CENTRIFUGE MODELLING; COMMON FEATURES; EXTRACTION PROCESS; FIELD CONDITIONS; LOAD CONTROL; LOAD MAGNITUDE; NORMALLY CONSOLIDATED CLAY; OFFSHORE INDUSTRY; PRACTICAL GUIDANCE; PULL-OUT; REDUCED SCALE; SOFT CLAYS; SOFT SOILS; SPUDCANS; UPLIFT LOAD; WATER-JETTING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; CLAY MINERALS; JACK-UP RIGS; JET DRILLING; LOADS (FORCES); OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CENTRIFUGAL MODEL TEST; DRILLING RIG; FOOTING; JACK UP PLATFORM; JET FLOW; SOFT CLAY; SOFT SOIL; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; SUCTION;

EID: 71549135560     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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