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Bucket Foundations

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Conception of Bucket Foundations

The world’s escalating demands for energy, combined with the continued depletion of oil and gas reserves in shallow waters, has resulted in offshore developments moving into deeper waters and untested environments. In the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, offshore Brazil, and, more recently, off Australia, developments have proceeded into water depths in excess of 1000 m. These deep water developments usually consist of moored floating facilities, which are tethered to the seabed via an anchoring system.

Bucket foundations (also named as suction caissons or skirted foundation) have been proven as a cost-effective alternative to more traditional anchoring solutions such as piles and drag anchors, because of their ability to confine surface soil and transfer loads to stronger soils at skirt tip level. Bucket foundations are a type of shore shallow foundations, which consist of a plate resting on the seabed and a peripheral skirt (often supplemented by internal...

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  1. College of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Mi Zhou

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  1. Hadal Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

    Weicheng Cui

  2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Shixiao Fu

  3. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

    Zhiqiang Hu

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  1. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Yinghui Tian

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Zhou, M. (2021). Bucket Foundations. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_203-1

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