Caisson foundation, installation in sand, normalised geometry, piping condition, failure modes

Harireche, Ouahid, Mehravar, Moura and Alani, Amir M. (2014) Soil conditions and bounds to suction during the installation of caisson foundations in sand. Ocean Engineering, 88. pp. 164-173. ISSN 0029-8018 (doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2014.06.033)

Caisson foundation; Installation in sand; Normalised geometry; Piping condition; Permeability varying with depth

Harireche, Ouahid, Mehravar, Moura and Alani, Amir M. (2013) Suction caisson installation in sand with isotropic permeability varying with depth. Applied Ocean Research, 43. pp. 256-263. ISSN 0141-1187 (doi:10.1016/j.apor.2013.10.008)

finite element analysis, geomechanics, evolutionary methods, EPR, cyclic loading

Javadi, Akbar, Faramarzi, Asaad, Mehravar, Moura and Ahangar-Asr, Alireza (2011) EPR-based finite element analysis of soils under cyclic loading. In: Proceedings of the 19th UK National Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 57-60. ISBN 9780956595119

steel plate shear walls, cyclic loading, EPR

Faramarzi, Asaad, Mehravar, Moura, Veladi, Hedayat, Javadi, Akbar A., Ahangar-Asr, Alireza and Mehravar, Maziar (2011) A hysteretic model for steel plate shear walls. In: Proceedings of the 19th UK National Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 69-72. ISBN 9780956595119

suction caisson foundation, installation in sand, normalised problem, FLAC3D

Mehravar, Moura, Harireche, Ouahid, Faramarzi, Asaad and Alani, Amir M. (2015) Modelling the variation of suction pressure during caisson installation in sand using FLAC3D. Ships and Offshore Structures, 12 (7). pp. 893-899. ISSN 1744-5302 (Print), 1754-212X (Online) (doi:10.1080/17445302.2015.1051311)