Sandia Geomechanics Lab at Sandia National Laboratories
Support Types:
Non-Open Water, Laboratory & Bench
Application Areas:
Cables, Mooring, Foundation, and Anchoring
Technology Relevance:
Current, Tidal, Wave
Facility Overview
The Geomechanics Laboratory enables the measurement of seabed strength properties under a wide range of simulated service conditions up to very high, cyclic pressures and complex load paths. Staff at the laboratory can determine and perform the appropriate lab tests to parameterize constitutive models needed in geotechnical numerical modeling of coupled poromechanical processes, for example, to assess the potential impact of cyclic loading from mooring lines on loss of strength of seafloor sediment near an anchor or the creep of anchors into shallower sediments. The staff also have experiments that determine the accuracy of design procedures in the laboratory.
