Offshore wind turbine suction pile foundation has been widely used. As known as suction bucket foundations
they are large concrete or steel barrel structures
closed at the top
open at the bottom
and equipped with a pumping/drainage port at the top. Firstly
the validity of the model is verified by the finite element software ABAQUS based on the data of actual test piles; then the finite element model of suction pile barrel foundation with pile diameter of 4-9 m in sandy soil is established to analyze the bending moments and displacement responses of the pile body under different horizontal loads; finally
on the basis of the hyperbolic curve model
the initial foundation reaction modulus and ultimate soil reaction force calculation method are corrected by considering the effects of soil depth and pile diameter size
and a suitable curve model is proposed. The results show that the suction pile barrel foundation in sandy soil mainly shows rotation mode under horizontal load
and accompanied by a little bit of translation
the value of the pile bending moment increases and then decreases along the soil depth direction
and the change of the horizontal load size basically has no effect on the location of the maximum value of the pile bending moment
the API method curve overestimates the initial foundation reaction modulus and underestimates the ultimate soil reaction force
which is not suitable for its calculation and analysis
while the agreement between the modified curve model and the results of the numerical modeling is better.
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