Numerical Study on Weld Joints of Steel Longitudinal Welded Piles during Pile Driving Process

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Longitudinally welded steel pipe piles are not as commonly used as seamless steel pipe piles in offshore platform. Although longitudinally welded steel pipe piles are considerably cheaper than seamless steel pipe piles, yet many feared that longitudinally welded steel pipe piles are prone to fail because of non-uniformity in the heat affected zone (HAZ), especially when receiving impact loads during the installation process. In this paper, a finite element model is developed to study the deformation and failure of the longitudinal welded piles. Two modelling cases are performed: single and double piles, with two different failure parameters: maximum stress and maximum plastic displacement.

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