Torpedo anchors are increasingly popular for tethering of offshore structures. Using fins
improves their directional stability during penetration, however, fins' shape affects both …

The change in the shear modulus of clays under repeat environmental loads is an important
factor in the design of offshore and onshore foundations. A degradation model for the shear …

The T-bar penetrometer is currently used to characterise seabed sediments, mostly based
on the full-flow mechanism around the probe in soft clays. However, open and trapped …

This article is concerned with the properties of Laponite colloids, which are being used as a
transparent surrogate for soft natural clays. Laponite is a synthetic smectite clay similar to …

This paper presents an experimental investigation on the ultra-soft marine soil recovered
from the seabed in deep-water areas in South China Sea (SCS). An improved T-bar …

Abstract The 2016 Meinong earthquake (Meinong EQ) caused a serious disaster, including
many liquefaction-induced damages, in southern Taiwan. This study investigated the “flow …

Modulus degradations and strain accumulations of clays under repeated environmental
loads are important factors in the design of offshore foundations. In this study, a simple …

The T-bar penetrometer is a key tool to estimate the strain softening parameters by repeating
penetration and extraction. In this study, the cyclic penetration process of T-bar is simulated …

Strain softening is a major feature of marine clay that plays an important role in offshore
geotechnical problems. One of the widely used strain softening models is introducing an …

In the past few years, offshore site investigations have extensively utilized full-flow
penetrometers like the Ball and T-bar penetrometers to assess penetration resistance and …