Abstract

This Paper describes the development of sensitive foundation instrumentation and its use in monitoring the foundation behaviour of the Hutton Tension Leg Platform The TLP installation sequence allowed the pile groups’ initial load-deflexion behaviour to be observed in an almost ideal way, with known large forces being applied as point loadings in a controlled sequence. High quality data were obtained, and these have been used to interpret axial loadsettlement and moment-rotation relationships for the pile groups. Relationships have been determined for displacements with respect to both local and remote datum positions. In general, the foundation response was far stiffer than that expected from the predictive methods routinely used by the offshore industry. L'article décrit la mise au point d'une instrumentation sensitive des fondations et son emploi pour tracer le comportement des plateformes à pieds de traction type Hutton. Le processus d'installation d'une telle plateforme permit l'observation sous des conditions presqu'idéales du comportement initial chargement-deplacement de la part des groupes depieux, de grandes forces connues étant appliquées comme charges ponctuelles dans une séquence contrôlée. Des donnnées de haute qualité furent obtenues et utilisées pour interpréter les rapports charge/tassement et moment/rotation axiaux pour les groupes de pieux. Des relations furent definies pour des déplacements en rapport à des positions de repère locales et lointaines. En général léponse des fondations était beaucoup plus rigide que celle déduit des méthodes de prédiction couramment employées par l'industrie en mer.

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