Gravity structure intended for a marine civil-engineering construction and associated manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10011968-B2
Application number	US-201615054867-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2016
Priority date	Feb 27, 2015
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

The subject matter of the invention is a gravity structure intended for a marine civil-engineering construction, comprising a slab configured so as to be placed on a sea bed and secured to a shaft directed in a principal direction substantially orthogonal to said slab, characterized in that the gravity structure comprises at least one anchoring tie rod extending in said shaft and in the slab, the gravity structure being configured so that, in a service position of the gravity structure, said at least one anchoring tie rod is anchored in the sea bed.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A gravity structure intended for a marine civil-engineering construction, comprising: a slab configured so as to be placed on a sea bed and secured to a shaft directed in a principal direction substantially orthogonal to said slab, wherein the gravity structure comprises at least one anchoring tie rod extending in said shaft and in the slab, the gravity structure being configured so that, in a service position of the gravity structure, said at least one anchoring tie rod is anchored in the sea bed, and wherein the shaft comprises an end opposite to the slab, said at least one anchoring tie rod extending from the end opposite to the slab in the shaft, and at least one tube for guiding said at least one anchoring tie rod and extending from the end opposite to the slab into the slab; and wherein the shaft is hollow and comprises a column forming a top part of the shaft and a base forming a bottom part of the shaft, and each guide tube is disposed in a longitudinal wall of the column and in open air in the base.

2. The gravity structure according to claim 1 , comprising a removable platform.

3. The gravity structure according to claim 1 , comprising a plurality of anchoring tie rods.

4. A method for installing a gravity structure intended for a marine civil-engineering construction, using a slab configured so as to be placed on a sea bed and secured to a shaft directed in a principal direction orthogonal to said slab, the installing method comprising: a step of placing at least one anchoring tie rod so that said at least one tie rod extends in the shaft and in the slab, the gravity structure being configured so that, in a service position, the anchoring tie rod is anchored in the sea bed, the step of placing said at least one anchoring tie rod being preceded by a step of placing at least one tube for guiding said at least one anchoring tie rod extending from an end of the shaft opposite to the slab, as far as the slab; and wherein the shaft is hollow and comprises a column forming a top part of the shaft and a base forming a bottom part of the shaft, and each guide tube is disposed in a longitudinal wall of the column and in open air in the base.

5. The installing method according to claim 4 comprising:
a step prior to the steps of placing the tie rod, comprising a step installing the slab on a sea bed, the shaft being erected in a vertical position.

6. The installing method according to claim 4 , comprising a step of filling with water an immersed internal part of the gravity structure.

7. The installing method according to claim 4 , in which the step of placing said at least one anchoring tie rod comprises a step of installing a removable platform at an end of the shaft opposite to the slab.

8. The installing method according to claim 7 , in which the step of placing said at least one anchoring tie rod comprises a step of tensioning said at least one anchoring tie rod performed at a top anchoring.

9. The installing method according to claim 4 , comprising a step of drilling with a drilling tool disposed in said at least one guide tube, during which the drilling tool hollows out a hole in the sea bed, and then the tie rod is introduced into the guide tube and into the drilled hole.

10. The installing method according to claim 7 , in which the step of placing said at least one anchoring tie rod comprises a step of anchoring said at least one anchoring tie rod during which the drilling hole is the subject of an injection of grout.

Assignees

• Soletanche Freyssinet

Inventors

• Rabaron Vincent
• Combescure Etienne
• Coudry Michel

Classifications

• E02D7/22

  Placing by screwing down {(screw piles per se E02D5/56)} · CPC title

• E02B17/025 Primary

  Reinforced concrete structures (E02B17/021 takes precedence) · CPC title

• E02B2017/0056

  Platforms with supporting legs · CPC title

• E02D27/525

  using elements penetrating the underwater ground (sinking work pieces E02D15/08, sinking caissons E02D23/02) · CPC title

• E02B2017/0069

  Gravity structures · CPC title