Finite element modeling of suction anchors under combined loading

Model tests on the bearing capacity of wide-shallow composite bucket foundations for offshore wind turbines in clay

“…In order to obtain the failure envelope of the foundation under combined loading, load-controlled analysis and displacementcontrolled analysis have been used in numerical simulation (Bransby and Randolph, 1997;Monajemi and Razak, 2009). The results show that the yield surfaces determined by the load-controlled and displacement-controlled approaches are consistent, as reported by Taiebat and Carter (2002), Gourvenec and Randolph (2003).…”

Numerical Studies on the Working Mechanism and Bearing Capacity of Bucket Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines

“…A constant stiffness ratio of E clay /s u = 500 is adopted (Hu, Randolph, and Watson, 1999;Monajemi and Razak, 2009), where s u is the undrained shear strength and E clay is the Young's modulus of the clay. The properties used to describe soil and bucket foundation in the numerical analysis are shown in Table 1.…”

Penetration and Pullout Capacity of Low‐Skirted Suction Caissons

“…Clukey et al [6] studied the failure behaviors of suction caissons in normally consolidated clays by conducting centrifuges. Many researches including model tests and numerical simulations have been carried out to study the pullout capacity of suction bucket caissons under vertical loads, horizontal loads, bending moment loads, and the combination of these loads [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Many analytical approaches such as limit equilibrium method [14,15], finite element analysis method [16][17][18], and finite element limit analysis method [19][20][21] have been proposed to investigate the pullout behaviors of suction caissons.…”