Polyester mooring for the Mad Dog spar—design issues and other considerations     

David Petruska  Jeff Geyer  Rick Macon  Michael Craig  Alex Ran  Neil Schulz 《Ocean Engineering》2005,32(7):767-782

The Mad dog project will use a polyester mooring system on the drilling and production truss spar. This will be the first use of a permanent polyester mooring system on a Floating Production System (FPS) outside of Brazil and the first time polyester has been used on a spar. As such, there were many challenges, which include:

• Regulatory approval.

• Designing a mooring system which is dominated by current loadings.

• Largest polyester rope break load ever required.

• Rope design qualification and testing.

• Quality control and assurance.

• Inspection, Maintenance, Repair and Retirement (IMRR) of such a mooring system.

This paper will focus on the design issues, rope design, manufacturing, qualification and testing, and the IMRR plan that was developed to provide the assurance that the polyester mooring system could be safely operated over the 20-year field life.  相似文献   

Uplift capacity of pile group anchors     

L. Vanitha  N. R. Patra  S. Chandra 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2007,25(3):339-347

Experimental investigations on model single pile anchor and pile group anchors of configuration 2 × 2 subjected to uplift loads were conducted on dry Ennore sand, obtained from Madras, India. The embedment length to shaft width ratios, L/d = 20 and L/d = 30, and enlarged base width to shaft width ratios, B/d = 1,2,3, center to center spacing of pile anchors in the groups, 3d, 4d, 6d and 8d were used. The load displacement response, ultimate resistance and variation of group efficiency with L/d, B/d and spacing have been studied quantitatively and qualitatively. For short pile group anchors (L/d = 20), the isolation spacing appears to be at a spacing of about 4d to 6d and 8d for B/d = 1 and B/d = 2 and 3, respectively. For long pile group anchors (L/d = 30), the isolation spacing appears to be at a spacing of about 4d, 6d and 8d for B/d = 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The analytical model of limit equilibrium method has been proposed to predict the net uplift capacity of pile group anchors. The predicted results compare reasonably well with the experimental results.  相似文献   

内核超速旋转及其对重力场的影响          下载免费PDF全文

申文斌  刘琳  宁津生 《地球物理学报》2007,50(2):430-436

本文研究由内核超速旋转引起的地球重力场的变化.论述了内核具有三个主要特征：椭球形状,各向异性对称轴与内核自转轴重合,内核自转轴与地球自转轴之间存在夹角并绕地球自转轴进动.内核超速旋转引起地球体系物质的重新分布,导致重力场变化.通过研究内核超速旋转的运动规律,建立了内核超速旋转导致重力场变化的模型,给出了由于内核超速旋转而引起的整个地球表面的重力变化,其中,在假定了内核超速旋转速率为1°/a的前提下,历经一年的最大重力变化量级约为037 μGal.  相似文献   

厦门同安湾滩槽演变趋势的遥感分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

林桂兰  方建勇  陈峰 《国土资源遥感》2004,15(4):63-67

利用多时相遥感图像判释厦门同安湾入海河流分布、海岸类型及浅海滩槽地貌,并根据海水表层流场特征和浑水带(悬浮泥沙)分布扩散特征及不同时期的海图,对同安湾泥沙供应现状和运移规律以及浅海滩槽冲淤变化、演变趋势进行了分析研究。结果表明,厦门同安湾海岸类型已由类型较齐全的天然海岸演变成单一的人工海岸,泥沙运移走向在平面上展示了逆时针泥沙水平环流特征,潮汐通道和局部海域出现了冲淤变化,部分潮滩处于缓慢淤积状态中。演变的动力因素主要是潮流,其次是径流,人工海岸形成后,陆源泥沙对海域基本不产生影响。  相似文献   

南京地铁许府巷站深基坑工程与监测   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

张永谋  卓普周  李鹏 《江苏地质》2002,26(1):43-48

南京许府巷地铁站深基坑工程采用地下连续墙围护，明挖顺做法施工。地下连续墙接头采用预制钢筋砼接头桩连接止水，两端头井辅以深层搅拌桩加固地基。基坑开挖时进行墙体位移、轴力、临近建筑物沉降变形监测，保证了安全施工。  相似文献   

东天山红石金矿原生晕轴向分带研究     

陈新蔚  王世新  甘继军 《新疆地质》2013,(3)

分带性是热液矿床重要特征,也是勘查与评价热液矿床的重要方法。为建立矿床完整轴向分带模式,需有矿体不同中段的化探样品分析数据。但对于产状较陡、深部工程少的矿体,要建立较准确的原生晕分带难度较大。以新疆红石金矿L1矿体1137 m、1080 m、1000 m和900 m的样品分析数据,分别采用“格氏”、“克氏”和“重心”法计算矿床轴向分带,再利用计算结果综合确定该矿床的原生晕分带模式。勘探验证表明,确定的分带模式与实际吻合性较好,是一种有效确定分带的方法。  相似文献   

煎茶岭与金川超大型镍矿中的伴生金及其比较分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王新  王瑞廷  赫英 《西北地质科学》2000,21(1):37-45

在对比研究煎茶岭大型镍矿与金川超大型镍矿的矿床地质球化学特征基础上,对两个矿床中的伴生金与镍及超基性岩的成矿关系进行了分析比较,两区不同的构造环境控制了超基性岩的不同分布。两矿床中的Ｎｉ、Ａｕ均来自超基性岩,且Ｎｉ矿床中金均为伴生矿,金川伴生金的丰度与镍成正比,而煎茶岭Ｎｉ矿中僮生金的丰度与镍成反比,其原因可能与各自不同的成矿环境及岩浆活动有关,尽管两镍矿中金的成矿机理基本相似。  相似文献   

Experimental study on the influence of seismic subsidence of loess under bidirectional loading modes     

《地震研究进展（英文）》2021,1(4):100064

Water content, dry density, void ratio, depth of soil layer, and seismic loading may all exert influence on the seismic subsidence of loess. Many scholars have carried out seismic subsidence tests of loess to simulate the stress on soil using unidirectional (axial) vibration instead of bidirectional vibration. We conduct seismic subsidence tests of loess using two different dynamic stress loading methods, unidirectional and bidirectional dynamic stress. In addition, the effects of different dynamic stress loading modes on the development of seismic subsidence of loess are compared for a case-study in northwestern China. The results show that (1) the increasing ratio of radial stress to axial stress has exerted significant influence on the seismic subsidence coefficient of loess under the loading mode of bidirectional dynamic stress (2) there is a critical ratio of radial stress to axial stress for seismic subsidence of loess, ranging from 0.6 to 0.8; when the ratio of radial load to axial load is greater than the critical value, the effect of bidirectional load on the development of seismic subsidence is more remarkable (3) when the ratio of radial load to axial load is smaller, the seismic subsidence of loess calculated by the existing unidirectional stress loading method is safe for engineering projects. However, if the value exceeds the safety ratio range it is dangerous to conduct safety evaluations using the seismic loess subsidence. The prediction value of seismic subsidence at engineering sites directly affects the later foundation treatment and the safety of the overlying structures. The seismic subsidence calculation and evaluation method in this study may provide a scientific basis for safety evaluations of loess sites in northwestern China.  相似文献   

Spatial rules that generate urban patterns: Emergence of the power law in the distribution of axial line length     

Hani Rezayan  Mahmoud Reza Delavar  Andrew Ulrich Frank  A. Mansouri 《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2010

This paper studies emergence/generation of power law in rank-order distribution of axial line length, which is a global pattern observed in real cities, due to interaction of a set of seven simple spatial rules at a local scale. These rules and their interactions form a model expected to simulate the morphological structure of free spaces in unplanned organic pedestrian small cities. Effects of each of the seven rules are discussed through repeated simulations of eight possible combinations of the rules, using a bottom-up process. The results show that the rules generate environments with statistically stable rank-order distribution of axial line length that follows the power law. It means that the axial maps of the simulated environments have a scale-free hierarchical structure such that their distributions lean toward short axial lines. It also represents dominance of local spatial structure, as the model renders a faster rate of growth at a local scale while allowing a steady growth at a global scale.  相似文献