US Patent Issued to Shanghai Investigation Design & Research Institute on Dec. 2 for "Evaluation model design method and evaluation method of soil plug extrusion effect in offshore wind power pile foundation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,636, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shanghai Investigation Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Evaluation model design method and evaluation method of soil plug extrusion effect in offshore wind power pile foundation" was invented by Panpan Shen (Shanghai) and Jie Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assessment model design method and an assessing method for soil plugging and soil squeezing effects of an offshore wind power pile foundation are disclosed, including: S1, setting up a model box, designing a similarity ratio for a model test, and determining dimensions of a model pile; S2, setting a pile insta...