1st Edition

Offshore Geotechnical Engineering

By Mark Randolph, Susan Gourvenec Copyright 2011
560 Pages
by CRC Press

560 Pages
by CRC Press

560 Pages
by CRC Press

Design practice in offshore geotechnical engineering has grown out of onshore practice, but the two application areas have tended to diverge over the last thirty years, driven partly by the scale of the foundation and anchoring elements used offshore, and partly by fundamental differences in construction and installation techniques. As a consequence offshore geotechnical engineering has... Read more

Introduction

The Offshore Environment

Offshore Site Investigation

Soil Behaviour

Piled Foundations

Shallow Foundations

Anchoring Systems

Mobile Drilling Rigs

Pipeline and Riser Geotechnics

Geohazards

Biography

Mark Randolph is the founding Director of the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia, a founding Director of the specialist consultancy, Advanced Geomechanics, and a former Rankine Lecturer.

Susan Gourvenec is a professor at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia and delivers undergraduate, postgraduate, and industry courses on offshore geomechanics.