Natural soils are usually heterogeneous and characterized with complex microstructures.
Sand–clay mixtures are often used as simplified soils to investigate the mechanical …

Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering has grown out of onshore practice, but
the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last thirty years, driven partly by …

Piling is a fast-moving field and recent years have seen major advances in theory, methods,
testing procedures and equipment. Some of these changes have been driven by the need …

Scientific approaches to pile design have advanced enormously in recent decades and yet,
still, the most fundamental aspect of pile design—that of estimating the axial capacity—relies …

Behaviour of the pile–soil interface is important to correctly predict the response of floating
piles in terms of displacement and lateral friction. Regarding energy piles, which couple the …

Driving resistance is difficult to predict in chalk strata, with both pile free-fall self-weight 'runs'
and refusals being reported. Axial capacity is also highly uncertain after driving. This paper …

This paper describes a new method for evaluating the axial capacity of driven piles in
siliceous sand using CPT qc data. The method is shown to provide better predictions than …

Particle crushing, shear banding, interface abrasion and migration of crushing products all
have the potential to influence the behaviour of displacement piles in sands. This paper …

Investigations into pile behavior in dense marine sand have been performed by the Institut
Français du Pétrole and Imperial College at Dunkirk, northern France. In the most recent …

Abstract Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering grew out of onshore practice,
but the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last 30 years, driven partly by …