Building Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry on Solid Foundations: characterising multilayered soils for offshore foundation design

该项目旨在为海上基础设计提供多层土壤。将采用先进的大变形有限元分析和新的离心技术研究常用的现场调查工具，锥体，T型杆和球流量计。本研究的结果将提供指引，以解释从现场调查数据，即渗透阻力剖面土层信息和土壤设计参数。该指南将填补这一领域的知识空白，并将为海上设计工程师提供更可靠的土壤参数，以进行更安全、更经济的基础设计。

This project aims to characterise soils with multilayers for offshore foundation designs. The commonly used site investigation tools, cone, T-bar and ball penetrometers, will be studied using advanced large deformation finite element analysis and novel centrifuge technics. The outcome of this study will provide guidelines to interpret soil layer information and soil design parameters from site investigation data, that is, penetrometers’ penetration resistance profiles. The guidelines will fill the knowledge gap in this area and will provide offshore design engineers with more reliable soil parameters for safer and more economical foundation designs.