Large Scale Pile Test in Clay: Proceedings of the Conference, Recent Large-Scale Fully Instrumented Pile Tests in Clay, Held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, on 23-24

During the 1980s a number of high quality, large scale pile tests, sponsored by the offshore industry, Department of Energy and EEC, were performed at onshore locations in clays similar to those encountered in installations in the North Sea. At the same time research was being carried out to instrument and monitor the piled foundation beneath one leg of the BP Magnus platform in order to determine the actual loads imposed on the piles and seabed by the structural and environmental forces.