GROUT CONNECTION

6 6
MN  1  10  N MPa  1  10  Pa chk  0
NOTE : 1. The method of this calculation is based on HSE: "Offshore Technology Report 2001/016,
Pile/Sleeve Connections", 2002.

2. Geometries with D/t below the lower bound may conservatively be designed using the lower bound
D/t values in the calculations. Not valid for Helical shear keys

Fop  0kN Max. operating load Fsurv  7200kN Max. survival load
(30965 kN) (36323 kN)
Dp  2000 mm Pile diameter tp  50 mm Pile thickness

Ds  2200 mm Sleeve diameter ts  50 mm Sleeve thickness

h  8  mm Shear key height w  16 mm Shear key width

L  6000 mm Nominal grouted connection length

s  300  mm Shear key spacing

fcu  50 Characteristic cube strength [MPa]

m  18 Steel-grout elastic modular ratio

SF op  6 Required safety factor operational

SF surv  4.5 Required safety factor survival

Calculations:

Dg  Ds  2  ts Outside diameter of grout annulus Dg  2100 mm

Dg  Dp
tg  Thickness of grout annulus tg  50 mm
2

Fop
τop  Design interface transfer stress τop  0  MPa
π Dp  L operational condition

Fsurv
τsurv  Design interface transfer stress τsurv  0.191  MPa
π Dp  L survival condition

1 1
  Dg   Dp Ds 
K  m     
  tg   tp ts
 Stiffness factor K  0.013

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h
Cs  1.0 if  0.005
s
h
0.6 if  0.005 Cs  1
s

L
CL  1.0 if 2
Dp

1.0  0.05  L  2 if 2  L  4

 D 
  p  Dp

0.9  0.025   L  4 if 4  L  8

 D 
  p  Dp

0.8  0.025   L  8 if 8  L  12

 D 
  p  Dp

L
0.7 if  12 CL  0.95
Dp
1

fbuc  K CL  9  Cs  1100   fcu 

h 2 N N
Characteristic bond strength fbuc  3 
 s
mm
2
mm
2

τop SF op τsurv SF surv

UCop  UCop  0 UCsurv  UCsurv  0.25
fbuc fbuc

 Ds  Ds
chk  if  45   140 chk  1 0  44 following HSE it should be chk  0
 ts
 ts >50, however no problems are
expected with the compact
 Dp  Dp Ds/Ts ratio.
chk  if  24   40 chk  1 0  40 chk  1
 tp
 tp

 Dg  Dg
chk  if  10   45 chk  1 0  42 chk  2
 tg
 tg

chk  if   2 chk  1 0

L L
3 chk  3
 Dp  Dp

chk  if  0.0   0.006 chk  1 0

h h 3
 4  10 chk  4
 Dp
 Dp

 Dp 
chk  if  0   8 chk  1 0 Dp chk  5
 s   6.667
s

chk  if  0.0   0.04 chk  1 0

h
h chk  6
 s   0.027
s

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chk  if  1.5   3 chk  1 0

w w
2 chk  7
 h  h


chk  if UCop  1.0  UCsurv  1.0 chk  1 0  chk  8

CONNECTION  if ( chk = 9 "OK" "FALSE" ) CONNECTION  "FALSE"

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