Study for Service Performance of the Scale Suction Caisson
摘要
As an innovative foundation used in the offshore floating platform, the scaled suction caisson (SSC) has a greater advantage in the installation and service than the traditional suction caisson (TSC). To investigate the pull-out capacity of the SSC, the numerical simulations are carried out under static and cyclic loads. The study shows the inclined pull-out capacity of the SSC increases with increasing the loading angle θ, but firstly increases, then decreases with increasing the padeye depth. Compared with the TSC, the inclined pull-out capacity of the SSC increases by 20 ~ 40% when the loading angles θ are in the range of 0 ~ 30°, but its values increase by 100% when the loading angles exceed 60°. Under the combined static and cyclic loads, the vertical cumulative displacement of the SSC decreases, but horizontal cumulative displacement increases. The total cumulative displacement of the SSC decreases by 13% compared with the TSC. It can be concluded that more soils can mobilized by the bio-scale surface to resist the pull-out loads. As a result, the SSC significantly improves inclined pull-out capacity and decreases the cumulative displacement.