CONTENTS
Abstract 1
Acknowledgement 2
Contents 3
List of tables 6
1. Introduction 7
1.1. General 7
1.1.1. An outline of the subject 7
1.1.2. Marine Piles 8
1.2. Need for Study 9
1.3. Objective 10
1.4. Scope of work 10
1.5. Methodology 11
1.6. Organization of Document: 12
2. Literature Review 13
2.1. (Kavazanjian, 2006) 13
2.2. (Poulos, 2006) 13
2.3. (Giannakou, 2010) 13
2.4. (Madhuri, 2007) 13
3. Problem Formulation 14
3.1. General 14
3.2. Data Collection and geometry set up for the piled berthing and mooring platform: 14
3.2.1. Platform sizing 17
3.3. Load data : 17
3.3.1. Dead Load: 17
3.3.2. Live Load: 17
3.3.3. Berthing force: 18
3.3.4. Mooring Force: 19
3.3.5. Current force: 20
3.3.6. Wave force: 21
3.3.7. Hydrodynamic force due to seismic: 23
3.3.8. Wind force: 24
3.3.9. Seismic force: 26
3.3.10. Load combination: 26
3.4. Breasting Dolphin 26
3.4.1. Breasting Dolphin Arrangement: 26
3.5. 2D model for basic understanding: 28
3.6. Berthing model generation: 29
3.7. Force evaluation: 31
4. Results & Discussions 32
4.1. Piles in Dense Sand 32
4.2. Piles in Medium Sand 36
4.3. Piles in Loose Sand 38
4.4. 2D frame results comparison 40
4.5. Berthing model results comparison 43
5. Conclusions & future scope 45
5.1. 2D frame for basic understanding 45
5.2. Berthing Model 45
5.3. Future Scope 46
References 47