“…Currently, the popular methods to research the horizontal capacity of the regular suction caissons are focused on model tests (Watson and Randolph, 1998;Byrne and Houlsby, 1999;Watson et al, 2000;Cassidy et al, 2004;Zhu et al, 2011;Gao et al, 2013;Ibsen et al, 2013a,b), numerical modeling (Bransby and Randolph, 1998;Gourvenec, 2008) and the theoretical methods such as limit equilibrium, elasticity and plasticity modeling (Cassidy et al, 2006).…”