Centre of Offshore Foundation Systems
Our supervisors have a wide range of research interest and expertise. Contact them directly to discuss your potential research.
Supervisors
Professor Mark Cassidy
- Investigation of spudcan punch-through failure
- Development of wave-structure-soil interaction models for deepwater applications
- Stability analysis of untrenched offshore pipelines
- Reliability of offshore infrastructure
Professor Martin Fahey
- Offshore soil mechanics - particularly soil mechanics of calcareous sediments
- Mine tailings - consolidation and evaporation behaviour, rehabilitation
- In situ testing - pressuremeter, piezocone, resistivity cone, seismic cone.
Dr Christophe Gaudin
- Suction caisson performance in layered soils
- Performance of suction embedded plate anchors
- Soil-risers interaction
Dr Susan Gourvenec
- Embedded foundations under transient and sustained loading
- Numerical analysis of the capacity of suction caissons
- Yield envelopes for shallow foundations under general loading
- Effect of soil profile on bearing capacity
Professor Mark Randolph
- In situ testing of soft sediments, in particular the use of full-flow penetrometers.
- Pipelines and lateral pile response
- Shallow foundations under combined vertical and horizontal loading
- Pile performance in different soil and rock types
- Pile dynamics
- Piled raft foundations
- Anchoring systems (drag and plate anchors, suction caissons)
Professor Dave White
- Piles
- Pipelines
- Shallow foundations
- Centrifuge modelling
- Image-based deformation measurement
Dr Mehrdad Kimiaei
- Seismic response of offshore platforms
- Pile-soil-structure interaction analysis
- Marine operations for installation of offshore platforms
- Integrity analysis and assessment of offshore platforms
- Finite Element and Boundary Element Modeling
- Sub-sea technology
Dr Nathalie Boukpeti
- Constitutive modelling of granular materials
- Liquefaction in granular deposits
- Analytical and numerical modelling
- Coupled phenomena in porous materials
Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
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