Experimental study on the global behaviour of jack-up unit reinstalled near a footprint

2020 ◽  
pp. 102456
Author(s):  
Ye Yuan ◽  
Menglan Duan ◽  
Chengliang Zhang ◽  
Pan Gao ◽  
Xinglan Bai
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickie Kong ◽  
Mark Jason Cassidy ◽  
Christophe Gaudin

Mobile jack-up drilling rigs often need to return to a site where a previous installation has left footprints in the seabed. Reinstallation near these depressions is a problematic operation because the jack-up's circular spudcan footings become subjected to eccentric and (or) inclined loading conditions. This can lead to structural failures within the jack-up legs and (or) excessive leg tilt and hull displacement. This paper reports a comprehensive set of geotechnical centrifuge experiments that investigated the effect of footprint geometry on the reinstallation response. Artificial conical shaped footprints were manually cut in the centrifuge sample, ensuring consistent shapes and minimizing any variation of undrained shear strength due to the process of initially installing and retrieving a spudcan. The effect of footprint geometry was thereby isolated. The vertical, horizontal, and moment loads induced on a model footing when penetrated at varying offsets are presented and these provide evidence on the effect of different footprint depths and angles on installation. The footprint geometry governed the horizontal force and moment observed during reinstallation between the level of the touchdown and the footprint toe. Further experimentation has shown that an equivalent skirted footing induced significantly higher horizontal forces (although it can be assumed to be significantly stiffer).


2019 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 106588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojie Tian ◽  
Yunxiang Liu ◽  
Guijie Liu ◽  
Yingchun Xie ◽  
Shuqing Wang

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 109305
Author(s):  
Yingchun Xie ◽  
Jintong Huang ◽  
Xiangkun Li ◽  
Xiaojie Tian ◽  
Guijie Liu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Norio Baba ◽  
Norihiko Ichise ◽  
Syunya Watanabe

The tilted beam illumination method is used to improve the resolution comparing with the axial illumination mode. Using this advantage, a restoration method of several tilted beam images covering the full azimuthal range was proposed by Saxton, and experimentally examined. To make this technique more reliable it seems that some practical problems still remain. In this report the restoration was attempted and the problems were considered. In our study, four problems were pointed out for the experiment of the restoration. (1) Accurate beam tilt adjustment to fit the incident beam to the coma-free axis for the symmetrical beam tilting over the full azimuthal range. (2) Accurate measurements of the optical parameters which are necessary to design the restoration filter. Even if the spherical aberration coefficient Cs is known with accuracy and the axial astigmatism is sufficiently compensated, at least the defocus value must be measured. (3) Accurate alignment of the tilt-azimuth series images.


1962 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Quarrington ◽  
Jerome Conway ◽  
Nathan Siegel
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1974 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
A WAKABAYASHI ◽  
T KUBO ◽  
K CHARNEY ◽  
Y NAKAMURA ◽  
J CONNOLLY

1963 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. McIlrath ◽  
George A. Hallenbeck ◽  
Hubert A. Allen ◽  
Charles V. Mann ◽  
Edward J. Baldes ◽  
...  
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1958 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry D. Janowitz ◽  
Vernon A. Weinstein ◽  
Rhoda G. Shaer ◽  
James F. Cereghini ◽  
Franklin Hollander

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