An Assessment of Pile Driveability Analyses for Monopile Foundations

Kourelis, I., Kontoe, S., Buckley, R. and Galbraith, A. (2022) An Assessment of Pile Driveability Analyses for Monopile Foundations. In: 11th International Conference on Stress Wave Theory and Design and Testing Methods for Deep Foundations (SW2022), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 20-23 Sep 2022, (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7148969)

Abstract

Several methodologies to predict the static soil resistance to driving (SRD) available in the literature have found wide use in the offshore industry over the last decades. These range from simple methods that require few soil strength parameters to more advanced semi-empirical methods that correlate the driving resistance to cone penetration test measurements. These methods were primarily developed based on driving records for piles less than 2.5m in diameter i.e. much smaller than the monopiles currently used in the offshore wind industry today. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of some of the most widely used SRD prediction methods when employed for driveability analysis of large diameter monopile foundations, by comparing the predicted SRD profiles with the driving records of 6.5m diameter monopiles installed in the Danish region of the North Sea.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Buckley, Dr Roisin
• Authors: Kourelis, I., Kontoe, S., Buckley, R., and Galbraith, A.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Infrastructure and Environment
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Stress Wave Theory and Design and Testing Methods for Deep Foundations (SW2022)
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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