Load–Displacement Behavior of Soil–Pile Interaction Under Lateral Action

• Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
• Main Author: David T.K.; Krishnamoorty R.R.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2022
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85128761229&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-16-7924-7_62&partnerID=40&md5=29311cfb3b28865a9722c84435a70f1b

The usage of pile is very common and in high demand in construction world. However, the cost of design and built of this pile is high. The understanding of the state-of-art of the pile behavior is yet to be fully substantiated especially when the pile interacts with surrounding soil. Substantiating the behavior of soil–pile interaction through fieldwork or laboratory experiment may found to be uneconomical. Therefore, an effort was made to use finite element method to study the behavior of pile interacting with sand and clay. In this study, PLAXIS has been used to study the behavior of soil–pile interaction under lateral load. A 2D finite element analysis was performed on a pile and surrounding soil. The primary objective of this study is to model the soil–pile interaction and to identify the lateral displacement of pile with different types of soils using finite element method. Parametric analysis were attempted to study the effect of varying diameter of pile and soil parameters on the displacement behavior of pile under lateral action. The result shows that indirectly proportionate correlation may exist between the soil physical and pile geometric parameters to the displacements of pile. The result of this study also shows similar effect on the pile displacements qualitatively but varies quantitatively for both sand and clay for various diameters of pile. Stress behavior of the soils interacting with structure was also studied and it yields well with expected behavior. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.