3. Procedures for predicting the short-term settlement of footings on the 

 seafloor using the results of laboratory tests on sediment core samples may 

 be developed on the basis of the program which has been presented here. 

 Because of the limited extent of this program, however, these procedures 

 should be considered as tentative. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



1. A substantial number of plate bearing tests should be run on different 

 cohesive soils. The deep sea pelagic oozes would be of particular interest. 

 Additional experimental results would be used to check the settlement 

 prediction procedures presented here and to provide a basis for any mod- 

 ified procedures. 



2. Additional tests should be performed on noncohesive sediments. 



3. Some test results should be obtained for footings larger than the maximum 

 size which the plate bearing device accommodates in order to examine further 

 the possibility of extrapolating the plate bearing test data from smaller to 

 larger footings. 



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