OFFSHORE GRAVITY STRUCTURES: CENTRIFUGAL MODELING

Offshore gravity structure foundations, including their analysis and design, are investigated. The results of an experimental study on the interaction of such structures with their soil foundations when subjected to wave forces are reported. The experimental tests were performed in a centrifuge at 100 g centrifugal acceleration with a 10-cm diam model structure bearing on a normally consolidated deposit of Santa Barbara silt. Therefore, the experimental test results apply to a 10-m diam prototype structure. The model structure was subjected to both monotonic and cyclic, as well as inclined and eccentric loading conditions; and its resulting movements (sinking, sliding and tilting) were recorded. (ASCE)

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• Authors:
  • PREVOST, J H
  • Cuny, B
  • Scott, R F
• Publication Date: 1981-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 125-141
• Serial:
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Volume: 107
  • Issue Number: GT2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1090-0241
  • Serial URL: http://ojps.aip.org/gto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Centrifuges; Foundations; Load tests; Mathematical models; Offshore structures; Repeated loads; Silts; Soil structure interaction; Static loads; Structural analysis; Structural design; Waves
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Foundations (Structures); Static loading
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00330609
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 16044
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM