Ice as a Construction Material in the Offshore Arctic
Ice is the most available and abundant material in the offshore Arctic, and it is therefore one of the most cost-effective construction materials. Over the past decade, ice has been used...
Technical Considerations for Beaufort Sea Pipelines
The development of Beaufort Sea fields requires construction methods and equipment for pipeline installation and trenching providing a balance between safety, reliability, and economy....
Directional Drilling to Install Arctic Marine Pipelines
Directional drilling for offshore Arctic pipeline construction offers essentially year-round construction performance capability. The most readily acknowledged alternate candidate construction...
Pipeline Landfall Construction by Horizontal Drilling
The segment of an offshore pipeline where the transition is made from standard offshore laying procedures to standard on land laying procedures represents a difficult and costly construction...
Fracture Theory for Nonhomogeneous Brittle Materials with Application to Ice
Brittle heterogeneous materials generally fracture with a dispersed zone of microcracking at the fracture front. The deformation and failure of these materials can be described by a nonlocal...
Validation of the CICE Code for Ice Ride-Up and Ice Ridge Cone Interaction
The discrete element method is capable of analyzing multiple, interacting, deformable, discontinuous or fractured bodies undergoing large motions and rotations. The formulation solves...
Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Gravity Platform Foundation
Gravity foundation design requires determination of total and differential settlement, vertical stress distribution beneath the raft and maximum shear stresses in the sand layers in the...
A Hybrid Structural Ice Defense Mechanism
A hybrid plate composed of steel outer surfaces and a concrete core has characteristics that make it desirable for use on offshore structures in ice prone environments. The service and...
Jumbo Modules for Artificial Islands
The development of the Arctic Offshore oil fields has led to the consideration of gravel islands or other structures to support oil production facilities. The island and the assembly site...
Ice Forces on Port Structures Resulting from Moving Ships
Results are described of experiments carried out in Thunder Bay Harbour in March, 1984, to measure ice forces on a port structure. Ice forces were measured by installing five pressure...
Earth Pressure on Underground Concrete Pipe in a Field Test
The cause of cracking at the sheetpile extraction in concrete pipes buried by the open excavation method was investigated by loading tests on the pipe and a field test carried out by Osaka...
Seismic Pope Support Construction Practices
During the mid 1970's the regulatory agencies controlling the design and construction of nuclear power plants began to demand stricter adherence to already existing codes...
Local Pressure in Ice-Structure Interactions
Two models for the determination of local pressures during marine ice or iceberg collisions with bottom-founded structures are presented. The first model is a two-dimensional analytical...
Finite Element Methods in Structural Safety Studies
The use of finite element methods in structural safety studies is discussed and recent work in the area is briefly reviewed. Formulation for a first-order stochastic finite element method...
Stochastic Beams on Elastic Foundation
The finite difference method is applied to the second-moment analysis of beams on elastic foundation with random characteristics. The method is simpler than the stochastic finite element...
Design Load Combination Factors
This paper reviews alternative load combination formats for ultimate limit states in codified structural design. The need for explicit consideration of load-time variations and random...
Bentonitic Slurry in Constructing Drilled Piers
Bentonitic slurry is employed extensively in the construction of drilled shafts. While serious problems can occur, evidence is presented to show that the proper use of slurry will lead...
Installation of Category I Caissons
Founding a proposed safety-related Category I structure of a nuclear power plant on rock socketed caissons necessitated using precision installation techniques. These techniques were chosen...
Observations on Load Tests for Drilled Shafts
This paper focuses on three specific areas pertaining to load tests for drilled shafts: 1) basic considerations and load testing procedures, 2) interpretation of uplift load test information,...
Quality Assurance/Quality Control; Case Studies?Introduction
The report emphasizes several requirements for quality management: a. The need for a knowledgeable field representative, preferably the resident engineer. This person must be familiar...
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