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OMAE2020-18775
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Contact author: n.hinzmann@tu-braunschweig.de
Fs/Fs0
necessary anymore. The shaft resistance or shaft capacity can
further be separated in inside and outside resistance. Figure 1
displays the resistance of an open ended pipe pile. For slender
piles the development of a pile plug is also possible (Figure 1,
right). In the case of an existing pile plug, the total breakout
resistance composes of the outside shaft resistance and combined
weight of the pile and the plugged soil and water.
load direction
GPile GPile
shaft resistance
Gplug
FIGURE 2: TIME-DEPENDENT INCREASE OF THE PILE
CAPACITY IN SAND [7]
hydraulic pneumatic
fracturing fracturing
Rg RPOR R
FIGURE 3: NORMALIZED STATIC RESITANCE –
DISPLACEMENT (UPLIFT) CURVE
shaft resistance shaft resistance shaft resistance
≈0 ≈0
In order to close the gap between literature and test results, FIGURE 4: HYDRAULIC AND PNEUMATIC OVERPRESSURE
a correction factor λPOR is implemented. The term pullout OFFSHORE MONOPILE DECOMMISSIONING
resistance (POR), is introduced to delimit the designation of the
maximum tensile resistance according to [8] and the total pullout
resistance. The POR can be described by the following equation: If the existing pressure is not sufficient to push the pile out of
the ground, another phenomenon can occur. In such a case, a
𝐹𝐹𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 = 𝐺𝐺 + 𝐹𝐹𝑠𝑠 ∗ 𝜆𝜆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 (1) flow around the pile wall occurs (see Figure 4). The medium
(e.g. water or air) inside the pile takes the path least resistance
and therefore flows along the inner wall of the pile toe and
where: along the outer wall of the pile to the seabed surface. With
Gi : sum of weight force enough flow, a layer of imperfections between the pile surface
Fs : sum of shaft resistance and the pending soil is created. The resulting reduction in
λPOR: correction factor (λPOR > 1) friction acts as a reduction of shaft resistance on the inside and
outside. Combined with a constant pressure and therefore a
constant pressing force, against the pile cap, the pile can be
OVERPRESSURE DECOMMISSIONING pushed out of the seabed.
Previous scientific studies for the complete dismantling of
offshore foundation piles are mostly concentrating on numerical
modeling and prediction of the expected resistances of offshore LARGE-SCALE OVERPRESSURE TEST - SETUP
foundations [9]. The planned large-scale tests of the various At the Institute for Geomechanics and Geotechnics of
decommissioning methods as part of the DeCoMP project are Technische Universität Braunschweig (IGG-TUBS), the test
intended to help achieve reliable results for a complete removal facilities for the scale model investigations, consist of two
of offshore foundations. The goal is to develop techniques which cylindrical buckets with a height of 5 m and a diameter of 4 m.
can then be upscaled to in-situ conditions. In total five different The dimensions of the geotechnical facilities are shown in
decommissioning techniques are developed and tested in large- Figure 5. The soil parameters are given in Table 1.
scale tests [3].
One of these methods is the decommissioning of a pile by
using overpressure. Figure 5 visualized the schematics structure.
To build up overpressure, the model pile has to be closed
pressure-tight with a sealing cap. In the idealized case, the
increasing pressure inside the pile has the same effect in all
directions. The pile wall and the built-in sealing cap can be
0.6 m
connector and crane hook connection (s. Figure 6). To determine
an additional crane uplift, a load cell was positioned between the
cap and the crane hook.
2.4 m
5.0 m
filter layer
4.0 m
FIGURE 5: SKETCH OF THE GEOTECHNICAL TESTING
BUCKETS (CYLINDRICAL) AT IGG-TUBS AND MODEL PILE