期刊
APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH
卷 48, 期 -, 页码 137-147出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2014.08.005
关键词
Modified suction caisson; Saturated marine fine sand; Model tests; Monotonic lateral combined loading; Lateral bearing capacity; Lateral deflection
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [51379118, 51078227]
- Shandong Natural Fund [ZR2009FM003]
This paper presents a novel type of offshore foundation, a modified suction caisson (MSC), consisting of an internal caisson in an external short-skirted structure. A series of small-scale model tests were conducted to investigate the lateral bearing capacity of the MSC embedded in saturated marine fine sand. The lateral loading was carried out on the MSC at load eccentricity ratios of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5. Experimental results show that the MSC significantly increases the lateral bearing capacity and reduces the lateral deflection, compared to its corresponding conventional suction caisson. Parametric studies indicate that the bearing capacity of the MSC increases with increasing the external skirted structure dimension and the internal caisson aspect ratio, while decreases with increasing the load eccentricity. The lateral deflection decreases when the size of the external skirted structure increases. It was also found that rotation center of the MSC moves with loading conditions and the variation in the external skirted structure dimension. In the limit state, the rotation center is located at a depth of about 0.5-0.7 length of the internal caisson and is 0.15 diameter of the internal caisson away from its centerline. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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