CN1193674A - Dual cylinder continuously ascending/descending pile legs with telescopic shoes - Google Patents

Abstract

A double-hydrauic-cylinder continuously lifting pile leg with telescopic pile shoe is a hollow body in which there are oblong pin holes made symmetrically at intervals at upper part in it. Slide slots are symmetrically made on external surface of pile leg. A sliding frame can slide along the slots at low part of pile leg. The pile shoe has telescopic rings hinged to the lower part of slide frame. The upper and lower hydraulic cylinders are installed to the same supporter in hollow body. Its advantages include higher bearing power, the power preventing horizontal slip, fully drawing the pile shoe into platform body, wide range of water deepth, simple structure, high productivity, and short lifting time decreased by 1/2-1/3.

Description

A kind of dual cylinder continuously ascending spud leg that has the scalability shoe

The invention belongs to Yu Haiyang mobile platform spud leg and lifting gear.

At present the spud leg of ocean mobile platform is divided into two kinds of case type and truss-likes by form of structure, wherein case type is divided into circle (cross section is for circular) and square (cross section is a rectangle) by its section form, and truss-like can be divided into English truss formula and four jiaos of truss-likes etc. by its cross sectional shape.

Spud leg can be divided into friction bearing pile and shoe bearing pile by its bearing mode, and shoe is not with in friction bearing pile lower end, and the vertical load of platform is mainly born by the frictional force of pile lining; The shoe bearing pile can be divided into two kinds of independent shoe formula and settling types again, and the vertical load of platform is mainly born by the counter-force of shoe (or heavy pad) bottom surface soil.

The friction bearing pile needs the depth ratio in insertion seabed bigger because of huge frictional force will be provided, and pile pulling is very difficult, but anti-horizontal sliding power is big, is used for permanent fixed platform more.

The stake of band shoe (circular or square), because shoe size big (linear dimension is 2-4 times of pile body size), it is superficial that seabed depth is inserted in stake, helps pile pulling like this, but anti-horizontal sliding ability, the shoe that has simultaneously can not be received in the platform body after stake is risen fully, the platform drinking water is increased greatly, influenced the operating water depth of platform, the platform that has has been opened the shoe cave more bigger than shoe size, but because the shoe cave is very big, platform structure deals with more complicated.

The stake of the whole heavy pad of band, heavy pad supports area is big, heavy pad can not sink to the seabed, can only be to be sitting on the seabed, and very big vertical bearing capacity can be provided, be applicable to soft foundation, but the seabed planeness is required high, macroscopical gradient generally can not be greater than 1.5 °, and heavy pad easily take place to wash in a pan empty, wash away, easily produce horizontal sliding, antiskid moves less stable.

Spud leg lifting gear commonly used is divided into two kinds of pinion and-rack and hydraulic cylinder jackings.

Pinion and-rack work is continuous, rising or falling speed is fast, good operation performance, because the precision of gear and tooth bar engagement requirement, the manufacturing tolerance of spud leg and gear is very little, and manufacture process requirement is very high, the load distribution more complicated of pinion, these factors make the rack-and-pinion jacking system cost height 3-5 of hydraulic cylinder jacking type (be doubly), parts ratio be easier to damage.

The hydraulic cylinder jacking type is owing to adopted cooperating of pin and pin-and-hole, manufacture process requirement is low, generally form for every by upper and lower ring beam, eight master cylinders and eight plugging pin oil cylinder and corresponding hydraulic system, work is discontinuous mostly, rising or falling speed is slow, and has problems such as manufacturing cost is higher, complicated operation.

In order to solve the mode of fixedlying connected of stake and shoe, feasible stake can not be given prominence to the shoe bottom, can not provide bigger antiskid to move the problem of ability, the present invention links to each other with shoe stake by sliding tray, make stake after going into mud, increase skid resistance thereby can stretch out the shoe bottom, shoe drops to a lower end under the effect at gravity again when rising simultaneously, and is unlikely to influence the platform drinking water.

Big in order to solve existing shoe planar dimension, perhaps give prominence to externally at platform, influence platform and absorb water; Perhaps the platform body will be opened very big shoe cave so that shoe such as receives in the platform body at problems, the present invention is designed to extension type with shoe, that is: shoe is stretched out when the seabed is inserted in stake, can increase and contact to earth area 2-3 doubly, to improve supporting capacity, and when stake was risen, shoe can be shunk, so that receive in the platform body.

For the complex structure that solves hydraulic cylinder jacking type lifting gear and work thereof can not be continuous problem, this dual cylinder continuously ascending device of the present invention, eight original master cylinders are reduced to two, original dicyclo beam is reduced to two crossbeams, and the plugging pin oil cylinder number also is reduced to originally 1/4, and device of the present invention has low cost of manufacture, simple operation and other advantages.

The present invention is achieved in that spud leg [1] is processed as on an empty stomach, the equidistant oblong pin hole [4] that has of empty stomach internal upper part symmetry, outer, the bottom symmetry of spud leg [1] has sliding tray [13], sliding frame [11] is enclosed within on the sliding tray [13] of spud leg [1] bottom, and shoe telescopic wing [12] symmetry is hinged on sliding frame [11] bottom; Upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is installed in the empty stomach of spud leg, and is fixed on the same support [6], and the piston rod top of upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is connected with upper and lower crossbeam [2,8].

Figure of description:

Fig. 1: the dual cylinder continuously ascending spud leg schematic diagram that has the scalability shoe

Fig. 2: the dual cylinder continuously ascending spud leg schematic side view that has the scalability shoe

Fig. 3: retractility shoe (rise state) schematic diagram

Fig. 4: spud leg lifting action schematic diagram (pitching pile operating mode)

Fig. 5: spud leg lifting action schematic diagram (pile pulling operating mode) description of drawings:

1, spud leg

2, top rail (being with two-way fluid cylinder)

3, top rail latch

4, pin hole

5, go up fluid cylinder

6, support

7, following fluid cylinder

8, lower transverse beam (being with two-way fluid cylinder)

9, lower transverse beam latch

10, main platform body

11, sliding frame

12, shoe telescopic wing

13, sliding tray

Now the present invention is further described in conjunction with Figure of description:

Platform is in the towage process, the piston rod of upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is in retracted mode, upper and lower crossbeam latch [3,9] is all in pin hole, the retractility shoe is in the platform body, spud leg after platform is dragged to pre-location of well zone, is removed fixed pile block by a solid mechanism admittedly well, begin to transfer spud leg, top rail latch [3] withdrawal; Upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] stretches out simultaneously, and a stroke is transferred in stake; Lower transverse beam latch [9] withdrawal, top rail latch [3] stretches out simultaneously; Upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is withdrawn simultaneously, and a stroke is transferred in stake again; Lower transverse beam latch [9] stretches out, and top rail latch [3] withdrawal simultaneously begins next circulation then.Spud leg is transferred to the end off sea to be suspended when having only several meters and transfers, platform is the location of well and in place under the help of tugboat, rapidly whole spud legs are transferred to synchronously and contacted to earth, continue to transfer spud leg, under spud leg, insert in the process, shoe telescopic wing [12] is subjected to soil resistance and overturns gradually and open, and until being the level of state, the spud leg area that contacts to earth increases 2--3 doubly, thereby improve vertical bearing capacity 2--3 doubly, sliding frame [11] is gone up relatively along sliding tray [13] and is slided simultaneously, to sliding tray [13] top, and the outstanding shoe of spud leg [1] bottom 2--4 rice, help improving the anti-horizontal sliding ability of stake, after spud leg was inserted to desired depth, with platform erection, spud leg admittedly well.

Platform fulfils assignment in the time of need leaving well location, at first main platform body [10] is reduced to predetermined buoyant draft, begins the pile pulling action then.Stake is under bearing state, and upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is in retracted mode, and upper and lower crossbeam latch [3,9] is in pin hole [4]; Lower transverse beam latch [9] withdrawal; Upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] stretches out simultaneously, will pull out a stroke in the stake; Top rail latch [3] withdrawal, lower transverse beam latch [9] stretches out simultaneously; Upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is withdrawn simultaneously, will pull out a stroke in the stake again; Top rail latch [3] stretches out, lower transverse beam latch [9] withdrawal simultaneously; Begin next circulation then.In the pile pulling process, spud leg [1] pulls out at first, sliding frame [11] falls relatively along sliding tray [13], until sliding tray [13] lowermost end, sliding frame [11] and shoe telescopic wing [12] begin to be subjected to uplift force, and shoe telescopic wing [12] overturns, extract behind the mud face because the effect of gravity is sagging naturally, the shoe radial dimension reduces, and can receive fully in the platform body, and not influence the drinking water of platform.

Scalability shoe of the present invention compared with prior art can provide bigger bearing capacity, can provide bigger skid resistance again; Make easy for installationly, cost is low; Shoe can all be received in the platform body easily, does not influence the platform drinking water, and platform operating water depth scope is increased; And the plug stake easily.It is simple that dual cylinder continuously ascending device and traditional hydraulic jacking system are compared mechanism, and master cylinder and plugging pin oil cylinder number are 1/4 of conventional hydraulic jack-up system; Cost is low, only is the 1/3--1/2 of conventional hydraulic jack-up system; Oblong pin sky can be realized the insert-pull pin motion in the master cylinder telescopic process, and insert-pull pin is easy, thereby realizes continuous lifting, and the comparable conventional hydraulic jack-up system of lifting time (by equal platform) is saved 1/2--1/3, and operating efficiency improves greatly.

Claims (2)

1, a kind of dual cylinder continuously ascending spud leg that has the scalability shoe, it is made up of spud leg, Hydraulic Station, oil cylinder etc., it is characterized in that spud leg [1] is processed as on an empty stomach, spud leg [1] is the equidistant oblong pin hole [4] that has of internal upper part symmetry on an empty stomach, and outer, the bottom symmetry of spud leg [1] has sliding tray [13]; Sliding frame [11] is enclosed within on the sliding tray [13] of spud leg [1] bottom, and shoe telescopic wing [12] symmetry is hinged on sliding frame [11] bottom.

2, a kind of dual cylinder continuously ascending spud leg that has the scalability shoe according to claim 1, it is characterized in that upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is installed in the empty stomach of spud leg [1], and be fixed on the same support [6], the piston rod top of upper and lower fluid cylinder [5,7] is connected with upper and lower crossbeam [2,8].

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