Print Email Facebook Twitter Monotonic laterally loaded pile testing in a dense marine sand at Dunkirk Title Monotonic laterally loaded pile testing in a dense marine sand at Dunkirk Author McAdam, Ross A. (University of Oxford) Byrne, Byron W. (University of Oxford) Houlsby, Guy T. (Trinity College Dublin) Beuckelaers, William J.A.P. (University of Oxford) Burd, Harvey J. (University of Oxford) Gavin, Kenneth (TU Delft Geo-engineering) Igoe, David J.P. (Trinity College Dublin) Jardine, Richard J. (Imperial College London) Martin, Christopher M. (University of Oxford) Date 2020 Abstract The results obtained from a field testing campaign on laterally loaded monopiles, conducted at a dense sand site in Dunkirk, northern France are described. These tests formed part of the PISA project on the development of improved design methods for monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines. Results obtained from monotonic loading tests on piles of three different diameters (0·273 m, 0·762 m and 2·0 m) are presented. The piles had length-to-diameter ratios (L/D) of between 3 and 10. The tests consisted principally of the application of monotonic loads, incorporating periods of held constant load to investigate creep effects. The influence of loading rate was also investigated. Data are presented on the overall load-displacement behaviour of each of the test piles. Measured data on bending moments and inclinations induced in the piles are also provided. Inferences are made for the displacements in the embedded length of the piles. These field data will support the development of a new one-dimensional modelling approach for the design of monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines. They also form a unique database of field measurements in a dense sand, from lateral loading of piles at a vertical distance above the ground surface. Subject full-scale testsmodel testsoffshore engineeringpiles AND pilingsoil/structure interaction To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aa901a18-b2fd-4d0d-b46e-695c0996df13 DOI https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.18.PISA.004 ISSN 0016-8505 Source Geotechnique: international journal of soil mechanics, 70 (11), 986-998 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Ross A. McAdam, Byron W. Byrne, Guy T. Houlsby, William J.A.P. Beuckelaers, Harvey J. Burd, Kenneth Gavin, David J.P. Igoe, Richard J. Jardine, Christopher M. Martin Files PDF jgeot.18.pisa.004.pdf 3.33 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:aa901a18-b2fd-4d0d-b46e-695c0996df13/datastream/OBJ/view