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 …

Mobile jack-up drilling rigs are typically supported by individual, large diameter spudcan
foundations. Before deployment, the suitability of a jack-up to a location must be shown in a …

Although the random heterogeneity of a clayey seabed has been long recognised, it is
relatively recently that the influence of spatial variability on the spudcan foundation has been …

This paper reports an analytical exploration into excess pore pressures generated during
offshore spudcan installations. The analysis was conducted using ABAQUS/Explicit for three …

When jack-up platforms are deployed for long-term services such as those functioning as
production units, the consolidation settlement of spudcan footings is an issue of particular …

The installation and extraction of jack-up spudcans may induce significant stresses in the
adjacent piles supporting the permanent jacket platforms at an offshore site. In the present …

This paper reviews the major contributions to Géotechnique that relate to physical
modelling, including developments in modelling technology, important experimental …

Some offshore foundations are subjected to intermittent episodes of remoulding and
reconsolidation during installation and operational processes. The maintained and cyclic …

In practice, different types of platforms/rigs are employed to perform oil drilling, see Figure
1.1. The type of platform/rig to be adopted mainly depends on the water depths. Among all …

Jack-up installation is typically discontinuous with seawater ballast being taken on and shed
again periodically to elevate the hull out of the ocean as the spudcan footings penetrate the …