A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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A subsea foundation (10) comprises at least one mudmat (12) having a top panel (18) and a skirt (20) depending from the top panel to be embedded into seabed soil. At feast one auxiliary plate (26) is supported by the mudmat, the plate being deployable downwardly like a guillotine blade from a raised, retracted position in which the plate is held above a lower edge of the skirt into a lowered, deployed position in which the plate extends beneath the lower edge of the skirt to be embedded further into the seabed soil. The foundation may be used to restrict movement of an elongate subsea element, such as a pipeline (22), relative to the seabed.
A subsea foundation (10) comprises at least one mudmat (12) having a top panel (18) and a skirt (20) depending from the top panel to be embedded into seabed soil. At feast one auxiliary plate (26) is supported by the mudmat, the plate being deployable downwardly like a guillotine blade from a raised, retracted position in which the plate is held above a lower edge of the skirt into a lowered, deployed position in which the plate extends beneath the lower edge of the skirt to be embedded further into the seabed soil. The foundation may be used to restrict movement of an elongate subsea element, such as a pipeline (22), relative to the seabed.
SEABED FOUNDATIONS
HAUN RICHARD (author)
2023-10-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English