Physical modelling of the push-over capacity of a jack-up structure on sand in a geotechnical centrifuge

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Funding Acknowledgements

The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship of Australia. Helpful advice from Professor Mark Randolph is gratefully acknowledged. Further, support from the technical staff (Shane De Catania, John Breen, Tuarn Brown, Don Herley, Philip Hortin, David Jones, Neil McIntosh, Gary Davies) is acknowledged. The authors acknowledge the contribution Julian Byron-Brown made to the development of the experimental equipment during his Honours thesis at The University of Western Australia in 2004. Support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) through the ARC Discovery grant scheme (DP0345424) is gratefully acknowledged.