Set-up of large diameter driven pipe piles in deepwater normally consolidated high plasticity clays

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

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-7

  Dutt, Rathindra N ^a   Ehlers, Clarence J ^b  

^a Dutt and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER; ENERGY INFORMATION; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH PLASTICITY; HINDCASTS; LARGE DIAMETER; MOORING LINE; PILE CAPACITY; PLASTIC CLAY; SET-UP TIME; SOIL RESISTANCE; TRIAL-AND-ERROR METHOD; WAITING-TIME; WAVE EQUATION ANALYSIS; WEST AFRICA;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COST REDUCTION; HAMMERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PIPE; SOILS; TOOLS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PILES;

EID: 77953759158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2009-79012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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