Guiding device in lifting foundation is an important component during spud leg's promotion and demotion,frequent promotion and demotion could cause guiding device's damage and fall off.The arrangement,type,gap between wear plate and rack top and fixing form to be studied by theory and practice on three typical jack-up platform,and conclu-sions to be obtained by analysis on design characters,advantages and disadvantages.
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