Commonly adopted offshore platforms are of jacket type and are mostly supported by pile foundations. The pile foundation designed for these structures should safely transmit the loads through the sub soil strata beneath the sea bed. The design of the foundation should meet the serviceability and safety requirements under operational and severe storm conditions.

The main types of load to which the piles are subjected to are the axial compressive, tensile loads, lateral loads and moments.

The ‘Offshore Pile Foundation Analysis’ suite of GEMS provides easy-to-use program modules for the all the above analysis. There are three modules available