Geotechnical foundations of offshore structures imply having a good knowledge of the sub-sea soil properties and disposing of adapted design methodologies for all the type of sub-soil characteristics that may be encountered. These methods must take into accout the execution stage and the hydrodynamic loading specific to offshore and coastal environment.

Contacts

• Geophysics: Donatienne Leparoux, Sergio Palma Lopes,
• Geothecnical foundations behaviour: Matthieu Blanc,Luc Thorel, Christophe Chevalier

Main goals

• Propose reliable and precise methods for sub-sea soil identification,
• Propose suitable design methods taking into account execution process, and hydrodynamic loading,
• Improve existing solutions and assess new technologies,
• Assess foundations life expectancy,
• Understand sediments movements.