Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Suction foundation having enhanced self-weight penetration and construction method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 吸力基体具有增强的自重穿透力及其施工方法
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Application No.: US15081094Application Date: 2016-03-25
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Publication No.: US09574316B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Taek Hee Han , Jin-Hak Yi , Young Hyun Park , Jin Soon Park
- Applicant: Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Priority: KR2015-0046732 20150402
- Main IPC: E02D27/52
- IPC: E02D27/52 ; E02D27/10 ; E02D23/08 ; E02D23/04

Abstract:
The present relates to a suction foundation in which is penetrated into the seabed by a vacuum pressure of a suction pump, thereby providing a desired foundation support force. The suction foundation includes a hollow caisson having an opening at a lower end thereof, where the suction pump is connected to the hollow caisson and the suction pump allows the hollow caisson to penetrate into the seabed while discharging a fluid in the hollow caisson to an outside thereof by using the vacuum pressure of the suction pump, a lower skirt provided along a circumference of the opening of the hollow caisson and formed into a wave shape having a series of teeth, and having wedge-shaped cross-sections, and a stiffener increasing rigidity of the lower skirt by increasing thickness of a predetermined portion of the lower skirt.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160289911A1 SUCTION FOUNDATION HAVING ENHANCED SELF-WEIGHT PENETRATION AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-10-06
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