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soft-soft
Piled
Foundations
rotor
frequency
rotor frequency
soft-stiff
frequency
blade-passing
stiff-stiff
Picture
source:
Pie
chart,
The
European
offshore
wind
industry
-‐ key
trends
and
statistics
2012
On
the
right
-‐ Adapted
from:
Optimization
of
monopiles for
offshore
wind
turbines
By
Kallehave
D,
Byrne
BW,
LeBlanc
Thilsted
C and
Mikkelsen
KK
Piled
Foundations
-‐Driving
of
Tubular
Piles
Driving
of
tubular
piles
CAGE
STEAM PRESSURE
RAM
CUSHION
ANVIL
PILE
Piled
Foundations
-‐ Loading
conditions
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Lateral
capacity
in
short
piles
Failure
is
by
rigid
rotation
about
a
point
at
zcrit≈0.7-‐0.8L
Piled
Foundations
Lateral
capacity
in
long
piles
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Failure
is
by
the
formation
of
a
plastic
hinge
at
zcrit
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Design
distribution
of
lateral
soil
resistance
Piled
Foundations
Lateral
soil
resistance
– realistic
soft
clay
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
The
shallow
mechanism
is
very
close
to
the
surface,
it
can
be
ignored
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Difficult
analytical
analysis,
use
of
empirical
methods
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Homogeneous
material,
influence
of
top
eccentricity
e=M/H
shaft
resistance
base resistance
Image
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Shaft and base resistances
deep bearing
capacity (Nc≈9) conservative
estimation
Piled
Foundations
Axial
Capacity
– API
method
for
sands
Table
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
Shaft and base resistances
Calibration against load test results on uninstrumented piles
Piled
Foundations
Axial
Capacity
– CPT-‐based
method
for
sands
Table
adapted
from
Offshore
Geotechnical
Engineering
by
M.
Randolph
and
S.
Gourvenec
General form of CPT-based methods