Auteur M. J. Cassidy
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C.T. Gan, Auteur ; C. F. Leung, Auteur ; M. J. Cassidy, Auteur |Mobile drilling platforms often return to sites where previous installation, operation and extraction have formed footprints on the seabed. Owing to soil consolidation during the jack-up operational period and the intervening period before reins[...]
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C. Gaudin, Auteur ; B. Bienen, Auteur ; M. J. Cassidy, Auteur |Retrieval of jack-up rigs at the end of their operations is common practice in the offshore industry, notably to move the rigs to another drilling location. In some cases the process is difficult, time consuming and costly, because the high extr[...]
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G. Vlahos, Auteur ; M. J. Cassidy, Auteur ; C. M. Martin, Auteur |This paper assesses a method for predicting the ultimate capacity and failure mode of a model jack-up platform subjected to monotonic pushover tests on soft clay. Separate structural and geotechnical analyses are incapable of making such predict[...]
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B. Bienen, Auteur ; M. J. Cassidy, Auteur ; C. Gaudin, Auteur |Offshore jack-up drilling rigs are subjected to loading from wind, waves, and current in addition to their self-weight. This applies combined loading in all six degrees-of-freedom in space on the footings. Although the foundation–soil interactio[...]
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M. J. Cassidy, Auteur ; C. Gaudin, Auteur ; M. F. Randolph, Auteur |Suction-embedded plate anchors (SEPLAs) have been developed to answer the growing need for anchors to withstand significant vertical loading. The concept combines the advantage of suction caissons (known penetration depth and location) and ‘drag[...]
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B. Bienen, Auteur ; M. J. Cassidy, Auteur |Jack-up drilling rigs are usually founded on three shallow footings. Under wind, wave, and current loading offshore, the footings of these tall multi-footing systems transfer large moment loads in addition to self-weight, horizontal load, and ev[...]
