Journal
GEOTECHNIQUE
Volume 73, Issue 8, Pages 689-700Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.21.00149
Keywords
finite-element modelling; monopile; sands; soil; structure interaction; wind turbine
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- National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFE0109500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51939010, 51779221]
- Fugro Chair in Geotechnics
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This paper presents a numerical investigation of large-diameter monopiles in drained sand, exploring the lateral response and the influence of pile diameter and loading eccentricity. Results from centrifuge tests and finite-element analyses show the suitability of an advanced constitutive model and propose a normalization method to unify load-deflection responses of rigid piles with different diameters.
This paper presents a numerical investigation of the monotonic lateral response of large-diameter monopiles in drained sand with configurations typical of those employed to support offshore wind turbines. Results from new centrifuge tests using instrumented monopiles in uniform dry sand deposits are first presented and used to illustrate the suitability of an advanced hypoplastic constitutive model to represent the sand in finite-element analyses of the experiments. These analyses are then extended to examine the influence of pile diameter and loading eccentricity on the lateral response of rigid monopiles. The results show no dependency of suitably normalised lateral load transfer curves on the pile diameter and loading eccentricity. It is also shown that, in a given uniform sand, the profile with depth of net soil pressure at ultimate lateral capacity is independent of the pile diameter because of the insensitivity of the depth to the rotation centre for a rigid pile. A normalisation method is subsequently proposed which unifies the load-deflection responses of rigid piles with different diameters at a given load eccentricity.
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