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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Three-dimensional physical and numerical modelling of jack-up structures on sand

Bienen, Britta January 2007 (has links)
Mobile offshore jack-up drilling rigs are not custom-designed for a particular location but rated for typical operating characteristics, like water depths. They may be deployed at a number of different sites during their design life. Under the current guidelines, the jack-up is required to be assessed for its suitability for each new proposed location, assuming environmental loading conditions due to wind, waves and current corresponding to a 50-year return period storm applicable to the site. Traditionally, these assessments have been performed in two dimensions, simplifying the jack-up to a plane frame and the loading conditions to be in-plane with the rig's 'axis of symmetry'. This thesis introduces a computer program, named SOS_3D, for the fluid-structure-soil interaction analysis of jack-up response in three dimensions. Extensive experimental series have been performed to provide evidence for the generalisation of the foundationsoil interaction model to general six degree-of-freedom loading conditions and its applicability to load paths and stress levels relevant to jack-up spudcans. These experiments included (1) 1g single footing tests, (2) centrifuge single footing tests and (3) centrifuge model jack-up tests. The latter tests highlighted differences in response and mode of failure depending on the loading direction of the jack-up and re-iterated the importance of three-dimensional modelling. The numerical program SOS_3D introduced early in this thesis was shown to represent a useful tool for the prediction of jack-up behaviour under general combined loading in three dimensions. It provided reasonably good, conservative predictions of the experimentally measured jack-up behaviour.

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