Estimating Laterally Loaded Pile Response
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v13.15639Keywords:
Piles, Lateral Loading, Homogeneous Soil, Elastic SolutionsAbstract
A simplified and practical approach for estimating the laterally loaded
piles in an elastic homogeneous soil is presented. The formulation of the
approach is similar to the conventional subgrade reaction theory but the
response of the soil mass is evaluated by a semi-analytical solution that is
related to the actual soil properties and the pile geometry instead of the
conventional subgrade reaction modulus. Modified closed-form solutions
for a free-head pile embedded in an elastic homogeneous soil are
presented. The solutions computed by using the proposed simplified
approach and the more rigorous boundary element approach for free-head
piles embedded in homogeneous soils are in reasonably good agreement
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