... cross-section and burial depth. The rapid growth of offshore wind farm developments has increased the interest in geotechnical testing to assess TR. The traditional method of determining the TR of a soil is by the thermal needle probe laboratory test, hereafter referred to as the thermal conductivity...

.... The variation in soil stress state at different phases of the loading cycle is illustrated. Considerations around principal stress orientation are advanced to (i) reveal links between spudcan response and failure modes of the soil, and (ii) demonstrate differences in response between common laboratory tests...

...- ing the values employed, like Nc factor among others. Tools used in the practical design of this kind of an- chor are the finite element analyses (Merifield et al. 2001, 2003; Merifield, 2009; Equihua-Anguiano, 2008), analytical models and laboratory tests (Gaudin et al., 2006). In this context...

... poses special problems, but recent research efforts have led to improved wars of talking these problems. Main emphasis is given to how the undrained shear strength can be determined from laboratory tests on soil samples, but with some references to in situ tests. The problems of sample disturbance...