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SUMMARY:Offshore geotechnical engineering in deepwateer  soft sediment
DTSTART:20120514T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Mark Randolph\, Professor of Civil Engineering in the Centre f
 or Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia. He 
 attained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1978. His research in
 terests are now mainly focused on offshore developments in deep water\, es
 pecially soil characterisation and the estimation of limiting loads for fo
 undation\, pipeline and anchoring systems. He has co-authored two books\, 
 including the recent “Offshore Geotechnical Engineering”\, and over 20
 0 journal articles. He interacts closely with the offshore industry\, both
  in research and through his role as a founding Director of specialist geo
 technical consultants\, Advanced Geomechanics. He was elected a Fellow of 
 the Royal Society in 2012.\nIn principle\, design ‘practice’ is repres
 ented by gradually evolving national and international design guidelines. 
 In reality\, most designs rely on more sophisticated analysis techniques a
 nd principles\, informed by recent research publications that may take sev
 eral years to be reflected in industry guidelines. This may be considered 
 as ‘art’. The more rapidly a sector of industry is developing\, the wi
 der will be the gap between practice (as represented by design guidelines)
  and art. In the offshore industry\, the most rapidly changing sector is t
 he move to increasingly deep water\, with new developments now in water de
 pths exceeding 2 km. In those conditions\, the seabed typically comprises 
 relatively soft fine-grained material\, with very slow sedimentation rates
 . Challenges to be discussed in this seminar include characterising the sh
 ear strength and other engineering properties of the sediments\, and desig
 n approaches for a range of deepwater infrastructure including different f
 orms of anchoring systems\, shallow mat foundations and pipelines.
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