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Project Number 48
Date of Summary March 31, 1987
Subject A Study of Structural and Geotechnical Aspects of Tension Leg Platforms
Performing Activity Sandia National Laboratory
Principal Investigator Mr. Paul Hommert
Contracting Agency Department of Energy
Estimated Completion Completed
Description To study designs of tension-leg platforms (TLP); to understand how platform foundations interact with the soil to influence the stability and reliability of the platform; to identify research topics and to initiate work on topics identified as being critical.
Progress Completed. The final reports were received. This work concerned laboratory and large scale field tests of driven pile under cyclic tension loads. The project scope was extended to include drilled and grouted piles under cyclic tension loads. The initial phase of the project consisted of an assessment of the current state-of-the-practice for drilled and grouted piles.
Reports
AB  File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (114 pages) McNeil, R. L., and Noorway, I., Offshore In-Situ Testing Techniques: 1983, SAND 83-7462, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1983.
AC File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (320 pages) Small-Diameter Pile Segment Test at Empire, Louisiana, Volumes I and II, The Earth Technology Corporation, Houston, Texas, August 1984.
AE File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (244 pages) Tension Pile Study, Volume IV, Testing of 30-inch Diameter Instrumented Pile in Soft Clay, Earth Technology Corporation, Report No. 82-200-4, Houston, Texas, June 1985.
AF File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (284 pages) Tension Pile Study, Volume V, In-Situ Model Pile Experiment in Soft Clay, Earth Technology Corporation, Report No. 82-200-5, Houston, Texas, February 1986.
AG File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (105 pages) Tension Pile Study, Volume VI, Theory Development and Correlation, Earth Technology Corporation, Report No. 82-200-6, Houston, Texas, February 1986.
AH File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (80 pages) Tension Pile Study, Volume VII, Proposed Methods for Design of Axially Loaded Piles in Normally Consolidated Clays, Earth Technology Corporation, Report No. 82-200-7, Houston, Texas, February 1986.
AI File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).(106 pages) Pile Segment Tests - Sabine Pass - Some Aspects of the Fundamental Behavior of Axially Loaded Piles in Clay Soils, Earth Technology Corporation, Report No. 85-007, Houston, Texas, December 26, 1986.
AJ File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (147 pages) State-of-the-Art Assessment on Drilled and Grouted Piles for Tension Leg Platform Foundations, Earth Technology Corporation, Houston, Texas, February 1987.
 

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