My understanding was that drained is used for coarse grain soils where the drainage rate is high (porewater pressure dissipates quickly) whereas undrained is used for fine grain soils such as clay where immediately following loading the pore pressure cannot dissipate (quickly!!! over time it...
Hello fellow members.
I have a problem I would like to bounce off of you if that's ok.
I am looking at the stability of a subsea structure at the moment. The structure is a mudmat foundation i.e. no penetration depth, and my numbers indicate that the structure has a very low factor of safety...
Hello fellow members. This is my first post on the Eng-Tips forums so I would just like to say it's a pleasure.
I am verifying the stability of a subsea gravity foundation using API-RP-2A and was wondering if it is even applicable to use a Drained analysis.
As I understand we use a Drained...
