“…A number of researchers have conducted centrifuge tests on suction caissons and bucket foundations (Allersma, Brinkgrever, and Simonm, 2000;Clukey and Morrison, 1993;Waston and Randolph, 1997). Several researchers have also conducted numerical approaches to study foundation-soil interaction characteristics (Andresen et al, 2007;Cao, 2003;Clukey, Aubeny, and Murff, 2004;Tran, Randolph, and Airey, 2005;Zdravkovic, Potts, and Jardine, 2001). The finite element method (FEM) is routinely used to perform 2D or 3D analyses of foundation stability.…”