Vertical transient loading of a suction caisson in dense sand
Vertical transient loading of a suction caisson in dense sand
Suction caissons are hollow cylinders open towards the bottom currently used as anchors for deep water offshore facilities. They recently turned out to be advantageously exploited as foundation for offshore wind turbines in shallow water (Senders 2009). The Prevost model for cohesionless soils (Prevost 1985) is adapted for the modelling of their cyclic behaviour. It is able to reproduce plastic deformation in both loading and unloading, contractancy of the soil and pore pressure build up as well. In this paper, a fully-coupled transient axisymmetric analysis of a suction caisson is carried out. The monotonic partially drained behaviour of the caisson is firstly highlighted. Afterwards, pseudo-random and sinusoidal-equivalent storm signals are compared. Permanent displacements accumulated at the end of the storm show a good agreement between them but are slightly divergent, which indicates that the position of the extreme event might be a relevant issue.
Offshore Geotechnics, Cyclic modelling, Prevost model
Collin, Frédéric
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Charlier, Robert
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Cerfontaine, Benjamin
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Oka, Fusao
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Murakami, Akira
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Uzuoka, Ryosuke
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Kimoto, Sayuri
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2015
Collin, Frédéric
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Charlier, Robert
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Cerfontaine, Benjamin
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Oka, Fusao
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Murakami, Akira
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Uzuoka, Ryosuke
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Kimoto, Sayuri
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Collin, Frédéric and Charlier, Robert
(2015)
Vertical transient loading of a suction caisson in dense sand.
Cerfontaine, Benjamin, Oka, Fusao, Murakami, Akira, Uzuoka, Ryosuke and Kimoto, Sayuri
(eds.)
In 14th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics, IACMAG 2014.
CRC Press.
6 pp
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Abstract
Suction caissons are hollow cylinders open towards the bottom currently used as anchors for deep water offshore facilities. They recently turned out to be advantageously exploited as foundation for offshore wind turbines in shallow water (Senders 2009). The Prevost model for cohesionless soils (Prevost 1985) is adapted for the modelling of their cyclic behaviour. It is able to reproduce plastic deformation in both loading and unloading, contractancy of the soil and pore pressure build up as well. In this paper, a fully-coupled transient axisymmetric analysis of a suction caisson is carried out. The monotonic partially drained behaviour of the caisson is firstly highlighted. Afterwards, pseudo-random and sinusoidal-equivalent storm signals are compared. Permanent displacements accumulated at the end of the storm show a good agreement between them but are slightly divergent, which indicates that the position of the extreme event might be a relevant issue.
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Published date: 2015
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Offshore Geotechnics, Cyclic modelling, Prevost model
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Frédéric Collin
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Robert Charlier
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Fusao Oka
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Akira Murakami
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Ryosuke Uzuoka
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Sayuri Kimoto
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