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The McClelland Lecture

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The McClelland Lecture

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A Tribute to Bram

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OBJECTIVES

Demonstrate the techniques of plastic limit analysis (PLA) and the advantages of same for estimating foundation capacity

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Outline• Offshore Foundation ‐ A Brief History• Analysis of Typical Cases Including 

Individual and Systems of Shallow Foundations Pile Foundations

• Show Similarities and Differences in PLA and Limit Equilibrium Techniques

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History‐ The Early days

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History‐ Shallow Water Structures

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History‐ Deep Water Structures

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History‐ Shallow Foundations

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“…how can mathematics, which is so clear and precise, and in so many ways simple, be applied to the physical world which, although apparently consistent, is many sided and extremely complex? ….”

Calladine, 1969

IDEALISATION

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“ The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”

Richard Hamming

COMPUTING

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“… this  solution was obtained using the analytical tools available to us…”

“… this  solution was obtained using the analytical fools available to us…”

AN  ASIDE

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SHALLOW  FOUNDATIONS

• Conventional Methods

• Plasticity Approach

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Conventional Plane Strain Bearing Capacity Solution

Mechanism

Prandtl Reissner Terzaghi

V/A = cNc + qNq + 0.5BN

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“Mathematicians are useful animals who should be kept in golden cages and fed problems judiciously.”

Karl Terzaghi

The Plasticity Approach with Some  Words of Caution

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The Upper Bound Method of Plastic Limit Analysis

• Define an admissible mechanism

• Assume a virtual velocity  of the unknown loads

• Set external work rates equal to internal energy dissipation rates

• Solve the resulting equation

• Optimize the mechanism

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A Word of  Encouragement

Remember ‐‐‐ no one ever really understands anything, we just get used to it.

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Example ‐‐ Inclined Load Mechanism

V

45

B

vo

B

C

DAE

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Example 1 – Solution

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Eccentric Load Mechanism

D

M

H

yh

B

R BA

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Brinch Hansen Mechanism Scoop MechanismRandolph, et al

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Alternative Formulations for Shallow Foundation System

Detailed or Explicit Mechanism  Macro or Implicit Mechanism

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Step By Step Procedure for Macro PLAPlanar Model (V&H) of System

1. Virtual rotation about Xo , Yo2. Find footing velocities v & h3. Use normality to form ratios of 

velocities e.g v/h4. Equate these to ratios from 

mechanism =>  2 equations5. Interaction surface => 3rd equation6. Solve for V & H7. Dissipation rate= Vv+Hh8. Set dissipation= external work rate9. Solve for unknown Force10. Optimize e.g. wrt Xo , Yo

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Macro Solutions of Two‐Footing SystemWith Varying Vertical Load

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Pile Foundations

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AN ASIDE

These piles will have to be driven with considerable batter.

These piles will have to be driven with considerable butter.

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Pile Foundations – Lateral Capacity

Deep flow‐around of a flat plateH= 11.42 SuB

Lateral Mechanism for Translation

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Pile Foundations – Detailed Rotation Mechanism for Rigid Pile

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Pile Foundations – Analysis of a Four Pile Group

xo , yo

R

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Parameter Value⁄ 0 and 2⁄ 0.10⁄ 0.40

Typical Results‐‐Moment vs. Lateral Load Interaction Diagram for a Four Pile Group

Shear Mode

Overturning  Mode

Interaction  Mode

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Comparison of Upper Bound vs Limit Equilibrium Analysis

S3

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