Offshore geotechnical engineering in deepwateer soft sediment
Event details
| Date | 14.05.2012 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Mark Randolph, Professor of Civil Engineering in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia. He attained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1978. His research interests are now mainly focused on offshore developments in deep water, especially soil characterisation and the estimation of limiting loads for foundation, pipeline and anchoring systems. He has co-authored two books, including the recent “Offshore Geotechnical Engineering”, and over 200 journal articles. He interacts closely with the offshore industry, both in research and through his role as a founding Director of specialist geotechnical consultants, Advanced Geomechanics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In principle, design ‘practice’ is represented by gradually evolving national and international design guidelines. In reality, most designs rely on more sophisticated analysis techniques and principles, informed by recent research publications that may take several years to be reflected in industry guidelines. This may be considered as ‘art’. The more rapidly a sector of industry is developing, the wider will be the gap between practice (as represented by design guidelines) and art. In the offshore industry, the most rapidly changing sector is the move to increasingly deep water, with new developments now in water depths 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 shear strength and other engineering properties of the sediments, and design approaches for a range of deepwater infrastructure including different forms of anchoring systems, shallow mat foundations and pipelines.
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- General public
- Free
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- The LMS organizes this Lecture.