This p~per was prepared for presentation~t the Fifth Annual Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston, Tex., April 29-May 2, 1973. Permission to copy is restricted to an abstract ofñ ot more than 300 words;-Illustrations may not be copied. Such use of an abstract should contain conspicuous aclglOwledgment~of where~d by whom the paper is presented.ABSTRACT An approximate procedure for predicting the behavior of laterally loaded offshore pile groups is developed. This procedure combines subgrade reaction (ply) analyses with elastic half-space procedures with both techniques modified to usetheir features most applicable to this problem. Results c)btai~~d_by ana"lyses of five circular groups plann_ed for support of North Sea structures are presented.

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