supported by the start-up funding from Tsinghua University(Grant No.100005014).
The sloping seabed affects the bearing capacity and failure mechanism of soil,which may compromise the stability and safety of offshore structures such as jack-up platforms.This paper employs a coupled model combining...
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51890911,51890912 and 52078336);Tianjin Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.19JCYBJC22100)..
Spudcan extraction leaves a footprint and disturbed soil surrounding the footprint,which introduces uncertainty and complexity in the spudcan−footprint interaction during spudcan reinstallation.This paper reports larg...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51779171);the Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.18JCYBJC22800)。
In the leg-lowering process,the offshore jack-up platform is in a floating state,and the spudcan may collide with the seabed due to the platform motion in waves,thereby threatening the safety and stability of the plat...
financially supported by the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.KYCX18_2311)
The mechanisms of soil structure interaction have drawn much attention in the past years in the installation and operation of jack-up platform. A bionic spudcan produced by biomimetic of egg and snail shell is propose...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51779236);the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund Project (No. U1706226);funded by the China Scholarship Council (No. 201606330049)
A novel modeling technique based on the coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian(CEL) method is provided to solve the geotechnical problems with large deformations. The technique is intended to solve the update problem of soil mec...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFC0302301);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51479183)
An extreme sea storm process can lead to a jack-up rig under the combined loading condition of vertical load(V), horizontal load(H), and moment(M) to have stability problems. This paper presents the analysis of combin...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51679224)
Jack-up platforms of the Ocean engineering structures always withstand the vertical gravity loads which are applied to the seabed by spudcan, so it is important to determine the bearing capacity and the penetration de...
supported as a primary node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering(CE110001009)
Reinstallation of mobile jack-up rigs next to existing footprints is a problematic operation because the spudcan located near the footprints is subjected to eccentric and/or inclined loading conditions. Geotech- nical...
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...
supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,Grant No.2008AA092701-3)
Jack-up units are extensively playing a successful role in drilling engineering around the world, and their safety and efficiency take more and more attraction in both research and engineering practice. An accurate pr...