Journal
OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 308-321Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.10.019
Keywords
Seabed consolidation; Pile foundation; External loading; Wave; Momentary liquefaction
Funding
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51425901]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51209082, 51209083]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20161509]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2015B15514]
- Jiangsu Graduate Research and Innovation Plan Grant [CXLX11_0450]
- 111 project [B12032]
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Seabed consolidation state is one of important factors for evaluating the foundation stability of the marine structures. Most previous studies focused on the seabed consolidation around breakwaters standing on the seabed surface. In this study, a numerical model, based on Biot's poro-elasticity theory, is developed to investigate the unsaturated seabed consolidation around a nearshore pile foundation, in which the pile inserted depth leads to a different stress distribution. Seabed instabilities of shear failure by the pile self-weight and the potential liquefaction under the dynamic wave loading are also examined. Results indicate that (1) the presence of the inserted pile foundation increases the effective stresses below the foundation, while increases and decreases the effective stresses around the pile foundation for small (de/R < =3.3) and large (de/R > 3.3) inserted depths, respectively, after seabed consolidation, (2) the aforementioned effects are relatively more significant for small inserted depth, large external loading, and small Young's modulus, (3) the shear failure mainly occurs around the inserted pile foundation, rather than below the foundation as previously found for the located marine structures, and (4) wave-induced momentary liquefaction near the inserted pile foundation significantly increases with the increase of inserted depth, due to the change of seabed consolidation state.
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