... cyclic loading effect negative pore pressure end bearing capacity skin friction capacity reverse end bearing capacity caisson end bearing reverse end bearing finite element analysis displacement suction caisson ultimate pullout capacity Copyright 2003, Offshore Technology Conference...

..., will decrease the negative pore pressure and thus the suction forces. The process is of course time dependent, Unfortunately, most work in this area has been only conceptual (e.g., V&sic, 1971) or empirical and ad hoc (e.g. Muga, 1967; Liu, 1969; Ninomiya, et al. ,_iW2_J. It is interesting, however, that so...