Investigation of the vertical uplift capacity of deep water mudmats in clay

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Funding Acknowledgements

The first author conducted this research while visiting the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) as part of a Dalian University of Technology and University of Western Australia collaboration funded by the Australia-China Natural Gas Technology Partnership Fund. This financial support as well as that provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51079018) is appreciated. The work also forms part of the activities of the recently established Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering. The third author also acknowledges support through the ARC Future Fellowship scheme and from The Lloyd's Register Educational Trust.