Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

406 Piling for marine structures Figure 8.9Load/deflection curve for 1300 mm O.D. steel tubular pile due to horizontal load at h ...

8.1.2 Mooring forces on piles Mooring structures are not required to carry any pull from ropes during the operation of berthing ...

Figure 8.11Shape of breaking wave. Wave length Motion of water particle waveheight 5 H c h z Sea bed u x Figure 8.12Design curve ...

sheltered waters. However, in the case of island berthing structures for large vessels, which are sited in deep and relatively u ...

shore to a deep-water berth. However, as noted by Newmark(8.7)the solitary-wave theory is often applied to situations beyond its ...

In SI units, equation 8.8 becomes (8.9) Values of and for different positions relative to the location of the wave crest are sho ...

CDis related to the Reynolds number, which for cylindrical members and normal water temperatures is given by the equation: Re 9. ...

The natural frequency of the member is given by the equation: (8.13) where Kis a constant, Lis the pile length, Eis the elastic ...

where Fis the wind force in pounds, Vis the sustained wind velocity in m.p.h. at the elevation of the portion of the structure u ...

The empirical equation of Korzhavin(8.12)for calculating pis p Imk (^) c (8.17) where I indentation factor m shape factor k cont ...

As already noted the face of a timber fender pile can be protected by a renewable timber rubbing strip. The type of timber used ...

relatively shallow and sheltered waters. Whereas in berthing structures the dominant forces are those caused by the berthing of ...

In recent years many of the offshore oil and gas fields were becoming or have become exhausted requiring the platforms and base ...

equipment mounted on girders cantilevering from the completed pile bents, or as an operation from a floating or jack-up barge. I ...

Equipment of the type described in Section 3.3 is used to drill-out the soil from within a tubular pile. Where rotary methods ar ...

the bit. Drilling was continued into rockhead, and followed by the separate operation of drilling-in a 560 mm steel tubular dead ...

penetrations are often much greater than those required for fixity against lateral loading. Although base resistance to axial lo ...

showed quite low resistance at 36 m below sea bed. Another trial pile was driven to 32 m, cleaned-out, and plugged at the toe wi ...

diaphragm and settlements at the working load would be excessive. It is also ineffective in clays or where clays are overlying t ...

8.21GERWICK, B. C.Construction of Offshore Structures, Wiley, 1986. 8.22YA R O N, S. L. and SHIMONI, J. The Hadera offshore coal ...