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APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2023.103534
Keywords
Mat foundation; Soft clay; Vertical bearing capacity; Effective stress path; Excess pore pressure
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The vertical bearing characteristics and vertical bearing capacity on sloping seabed were studied, revealing that the vertical bearing capacity is reduced and the soil experiences sliding failure. The insertion depth of pile legs has a more significant contribution to the horizontal bearing capacity compared to the vertical bearing capacity. The increase in vertical bearing capacity is mainly attributed to the dissipation of excess pore pressure and the increase in mean effective stress of the soil. Preloading, consolidation degree, and soil property significantly affect the vertical bearing capacity of the mat foundation.
Mat foundation is a new type of jack-up wind power installation platform suitable for clay seabed, which avoids the problems of excessive insertion and extraction difficulties of spudcan foundation on soft clay seabed. Evaluating the vertical bearing capacity of the mat foundation on the clay seabed is of great significance for the safe operation of jack-up platform in marine environment. In this research, the vertical bearing characteristics of mat foundation on horizontal and sloping clay seabed were studied through centrifuge tests. Then, numerical simulations were conducted to study the vertical bearing capacity of the full-scale mat foundation on clay seabed, in which the effects of the large mat foundation size, pile leg insertion depth, preloading, consolidation degree of soil, and soil plasticity were analyzed. The results show that the vertical bearing capacity of the mat foundations on the sloping seabed is reduced, and the soil under the mat foundation shows obvious sliding failure. The contribution of the insertion depth of pile legs on the horizontal bearing capacity is more obvious than that of the vertical bearing capacity. The enhancement of the vertical bearing capacity is mainly due to the dissipation of the excess pore pressure and the increase of the mean effective stress of the soil. The effects of preloading, consolidation degree, and soil property on the vertical bearing capacity of the mat foundation are significant.
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