Offshore wind power is a hot spot in the field of new energy, with foundation construction costs representing approximately 30% of the total investment in wind farm construction. Offshore wind turbines are subjected to long-term cyclic loads, and seabed materials are prone to causing stiffness degradation. The accurate disclosure of the mechanical properties of marine soil is critical to the safety and stability of the foundation structure of offshore wind turbines. The stiffness degradation laws of mucky clay and silt clay from offshore wind turbines were firstly investigated in the study. Experiments found that the variations in the elastic modulus presented L-type attenuation under small cyclic loads, and the degradation coefficient fleetingly decayed to the strength progressive line under large cyclic loads. Based on the experimental results, a random forest prediction model for the elastic modulus of the submarine soil was established, which had high prediction accuracy. The influence of testing the loading parameters of the submarine soil on the prediction results was greater than that of the soil's physical property parameters. In criticality, the CSR had the greatest impact on the prediction results. This study provides a more efficient method for the stiffness degradation assessment of submarine soil materials in offshore wind farms.

The rock-based sea area has great prospect of development and construction of offshore wind farms (OWFs), and the mainstream construction sites of OWFs in China have shifted from the soil-based seabed to the rock-based seabed area. Previous studies about mechanical properties of seabed materials and bearing characteristics of pile foundation in OWF mainly focus on the submarine soil-based seabed, resulting in lack of direct reference for the construction of offshore wind power in the rock seabed. Therefore, the study concentrates on the investigation of failure criterion of submarine completely weathered granite (CWG) of offshore wind farms in rockbased sea area under cyclic loads. Firstly, dynamic triaxial tests are carried out, and two unique development modes of CWG are revealed under different cyclic loads. The experiments analyze insight stiffness attenuation law and establish the prediction model of stiffness attenuation based on the logarithm formula. More critical, a unique development law of damping ratio of submarine seabed materials is discovered and discussed, and two cyclic failure criteria based on cumulative strain and dissipated energy are put forward to divide the critical CSR under cyclic loads, which gives helpful reference for the construction of offshore wind farms in rock-based sea area.