... for consideration include the identification of potential hazards (e.g. slope instability or strong alongslope sediment transport), determination of the scale of events, and assessment of their frequency (rare, frequent, episodic or continuous). Seafloor instabihty leading to slope failure is potenbally the most...

... applicable to the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. waters. A study has therefore been carned out as a Joint Industry Project to investigate the apphcability of the LRFD method for plle design for foundahons in the North Sea. The first stage of the study was an assessment of the effect of the LRFD methods of design...

..., an effecbve stress verhcal uphft resistance model, whlch incorporates an assessment of the backfills' angle of internal frichon (albeit at extremely low effechve stresses), was found to gve a far more accurate representation of the test results. This finding is Important and is in h e wth recent reports...