Performance Assessment of Deep Penetration Offshore Piles Driven Into Calcareous Soils

Underwater Geotechnical Foundations

“…Sabine River delta (Grosch and Reese 1980) Offshore Florida calcareous sands ) Offshore Southern California (Mahmood and Reifel 1978) Mississippi Delta (Gulf of Mexico) weak sediments Booth and Garrison 1978) Gulf of Mexico underconsolidated clays to dense sands ) Alaska coastal waters Hawaii calcareous sands Offshore Cuba coral sands Offshore Brazil calcareous soils (Ping et al 1984) Offshore Australia calcareous sands and sandy silts Tan, Parkin, and Yee 1990;) Borneo marine clays Offshore India (Stockard 1986) Offshore China dense sands (Tsien 1986) Arabian Gulf hard clays, dense sands, rocks, and coral Settgast 1980; Gulf of Suez calcareous sands and silts Cheng 1984, Dutt and) North Sea stiff clays North Sea soft clays (Karlsrud and Nadim 1990) North Sea dense sands (Jardine and Overy 1996, Zuidberg and Vergobbi 1996) North Sea boulder clays North Sea chalk (Vijayvergiya, Cheng, and Kolk 1977;Davie, Ehlers, and Antes 1978) 4 Design Considerations…”