Response of Concrete Island Drilling System to Ice Impact Loading

by Shahriar Vahdani, Harding Lawson Assoc, United States,
Donald E. Bruggers, Harding Lawson Assoc, United States,
Sherman B. Wetmore, Harding Lawson Assoc, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Foundation Engineering: Current Principles and Practices

Abstract:

The lateral stability and load/deformation characteristics of the Concrete Island Drilling System structure under ice impact loading conditions were studied. The 300-foot-square (91.5-meter square) concrete island with 5-foot (1.53 m) steel skirts was to be located in shallow waters, just off Seal Island, Alaska in the Beaufort Sea. The two-dimensional analytical model used was, in principal, capable of modelling drained and undrained nonlinear soil behavior, foundation-soil separation, nonlinear frictional behavior of cohesionless soils, and three possible foundation failure mechanisms. The results of our analyses indicate that the failure in silty sands just below the tip of skirts was the controlling failure mechanism.

Subject Headings: Lateral loads | Ice loads | Soil analysis | Soil deformation | Soil properties | Islands | Foundations | Alaska | United States | Beaufort Sea

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search