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Penetrometer equipment and testing techniques for offshore design of foundations, anchors and pipelines
MF Randolph, SA Stanier, CD O’Loughlin, SH Chow, B Bienen, JP Doherty, H Mohr, R Ragni, MA Schneider, DJ White, JA Schneider
Cone Penetration Testing 2018 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing Cpt 2018 | CRC PRESS-BALKEMA | Published : 2018
Abstract
This paper attempts to categorise geotechnical field site characterisation tools in a hierarchical manner, as appropriate for the progression from initial surveys to detailed geotechnical design of specific infrastructure. In general, the hierarchy reflects more the sophistication, and hence cost, of the field tools, although small-scale tools developed to explore box core samples are something of an exception, with the potential for high quality data at low cost. These ideas are explored in the context of modern developments in equipment and methods of deployment, and in the manner in which the data may be used efficiently in design.
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work forms part of the activities of the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at UWA, currently supported as a node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering. The authors are grateful for support from the RIGSS JIP sponsors: Fugro, Shell, Total and Woodside Energy. In addition, Mark Randolph acknowledges support through the Fugro Chair in Geotechnics and David White acknowledges support through the Shell Chair in Offshore Engineering.