Offshore Pipeline Flotation during Sand Backfilling with a TSHD: An Experimental Study

Offshore pipelines represent major items in the oil and gas industry nowadays. These submarine pipelines are usually covered with backfill for protection and a well-known method for this is sand backfilling with a trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). Although pipeline installation with a TSHD is a developed technique, there are still some...