Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51639002,51209033);the Specialized Re-search Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(Grant No.20120041130002)
The principal stress rotation is one of the most important features of the stress state in a seabed subjected to wave loading. Most prior investigations focused their attention on the cyclic behaviour of soil deposits...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51121005 and 51209033);the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province,China(2013020154);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (DUT14ZD206)
Although the bearing capacity of plate anchors in clay has been studied extensively, the results considering the effects of offshore cyclic loading are relatively rare. In the present study, 1g model tests are carried...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.50978045,51121005 and 51209033)
Spudcan may experience punch-through failure on strong over weak layered soils, such as sand overlying clay. A large deformation finite element method (LDFE) is used to simulate the penetration process of spudcan in...