Design approach for rectangular mudmats under fully three-dimensional loading

Geotechnique - Tập 64 Số 1 - Trang 51-63 - 2014
Xiaowei Feng1, Mark Randolph1, Susan Gourvenec1, Régis Wallerand2
1Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
2Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, The University of Western Australia. † Subsea 7, Paris, France.

Tóm tắt

Mudmats are used in the offshore oil and gas industry to support subsea infrastructure for pipeline terminations and well manifolds. Expansion and contraction of connected pipelines and jumpers due to changing thermal and pressure conditions impose fully three-dimensional loading on the foundations, dominated by horizontal, moment and torsional loading rather than high vertical loads. The mudmat foundations are rectangular, and include shallow skirts in order to increase capacity, particularly for sliding. Offshore design guidelines for shallow foundations tend to excessive conservatism; optimisation of mudmat capacity under general loading has thus become critical in order to keep foundation footprints within the limits of current installation vessels. The paper presents an alternative design method, based on failure envelopes derived from an extensive programme of three-dimensional finite-element analyses, focusing on the sliding and rotational capacity of the foundation. Starting from expressions that quantify the uniaxial capacity under each of the six degrees of freedom, failure envelope shapes for different biaxial combinations are developed. Ultimately, the allowable capacity under the six-degree-of-freedom loading is expressed in terms of a two-dimensional failure envelope for the resultant horizontal and moment loading, after due allowance for the vertical and torsional components of load.

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Geotechnique

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