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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 248, 2021
2021 3rd International Conference on Civil Architecture and Energy Science (CAES 2021)
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| Article Number | 03014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Research on Civil Water Conservancy Engineering and Urban Architecture | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202124803014 | |
| Published online | 12 April 2021 | |
A new expression to predict secant rotational stiffness of spudcan in undrained soils
School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China
* Corresponding author: lwl996ws@163.com
The nonlinear behavior of spudcan foundation will lead to the decrease of the rotational stiffness of the spudcan, leading to the increase of the stress at the critical member of the offshore jack-up drilling platform. Secant rotational stiffness is used to represent the value of rotational stiffness of linear foundation model when the soil changes from elastic to elasto-plastic and then to plastic. In this paper, the “wished in-place” small strain finite element analysis (SSFE) analysis is used to simulate the load-displacement response of spudcans pre-embedded in the plastic soil, thus calculating the secant rotational stiffness of spudcans. New expressions of failure ratio and secant rotational stiffness are proposed with the coupling effect of horizontal force and moment taken into account.
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