SYMBOLS 



A Bearing area of deadweight anchor (m 2 ) or cutting edge tips 



A Side area (nr) 



B Width of deadweight anchor block (m). 



b Spacing between cutting edges beneath deadweight, or anchor 

 spacing (m). 



D Diameter of pile or circular anchor block (m). 



d Depth below seafloor surface (m). 



d , d , d Factors to account for the shearing resistance of soil 



c Y ^ above the bearing plane of the anchor. 



E Young's modulus (Pa). 



e Distance of resultant force from centroid of base (m). 



H Height of deadweight anchor excluding cutting edges (m). 



I Polar moment of inertia! of the pile (m ). 



i , i , i Factors to account for inclination of the resultant load, 

 c' y 1 



K Modulus of horizontal subgrade reaction (Pa). 



K Coefficient of passive lateral earth pressure. 



K Coefficient of lateral pressure on pile wall. 



k , k , k Factors to account for compressibility of the support soil, 

 c y q 



L Horizontal length, as the long dimension of a rectangular 

 anchor block (m) . 



M Moment (Nm). 



M Maximum moment (Nm). 

 max 



M Moment at surface (Nm). 

 o 



M Maximum bending moment in a cutting edge per unit width of 



P deadweight anchor (N-m/m). 



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