A unified lateral soil reaction model for monopiles in soft clay considering various length-to-diameter (L/D) ratios

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107492" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107492</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A unified lateral soil reaction model for monopiles in soft clay considering various length-to-diameter (L/D) ratios

Original language description

Large-diameter monopiles are the most commonly used foundation to support offshore wind turbines. Early designs usually adopted pile diameters (D) between 4 and 6 m, which is recently extended to 8 m and will target 10 m in the future. It is increasingly evident that the existing design method (i.e., API&apos;s p-y model) can significantly under-predict the lateral stiffness and capacity of large-diameter monopiles in soft clay, due to ignoring the soil resistances from base shear and base moment which become more pronounces as L/D reduces. In this study, a two-spring approach is proposed, aiming to predict the lateral behaviour of monopiles with varied L/D ratios in a unified manner. In light of the soil flow mechanisms around monopiles, the pure lateral soil resistance above the rotation point (RP) is quantified using a p-y model, while the resistances below the RP including the base shear and base moment are integrated into a moment-rotation spring (characterized by a M-R-theta(R) model) at the RP. It can naturally recover to a p-y model while analyzing flexible piles, where theta(R) = 0 at RP. Formulations of the &apos;p-y + M-R-theta(R)&apos; model (including diameter-related p-y and M-R-theta(R) models, and the depth of the RP) are proposed based on the results of a series of well-calibrated 3D numerical models. The proposed model has satisfactorily reproduced a number of field and centrifuge test results on laterally loaded monopiles with a wide range of L/D ratios (including flexible, semi-rigid and rigid piles), using a unified set of parameters. Compared to the standard p-y model, the adoption of the proposed &apos;p-y + M-R-theta(R)&apos; model is shown to substantially reduce design conservatism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ocean Engineering

ISSN

0029-8018

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

212

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

107492

UT code for WoS article

000554925500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85087379342