3-D Elasto-Plastic Finite Element Analyses of Pile Foundations Subjected to Lateral Loading

Analysis of Laterally Loaded Piles in Multilayered Soil Deposits

“…Poulos (1971b) (Poulos 1975, Banerjee 1978, Banerjee and Davies 1980, Sharnouby and Novak 1985, Basile 1999, Xu and Poulos 2000. The finite element method, with several modifications (e.g., finite elements with Fourier technique, finite elements with substructuring, finite elements with periodic boundary conditions), has also been used quite extensively to model pile groups in elastic and elastoplastic soils (Chow 1987, Shibata et al 1988, Kooijman 1989, Brown and Shie 1991, Bransby 1996, Zhang et al 1999b, Wakai et al 1999, Zhang and Small 2000, Law and Lam 2001, Budiman and Ahn 2005. That apart, the discrete element method (Holloway et al 1981), the finite difference method (Comodromos and Pitilakis 2005) and the variational method (Shen and Teh 2002) have been used to analyze pile groups.…”

Reducing Seismic Risk to Highway Mobility: Assessment and Design Examples for Pile Foundations Affected by Lateral Spreading

“…Each component (i.e., pile, pile cap, soil, and interface element) is modeled with their own constitutive relationship, which varies from linear elastic to non-linear elastic, and elastic-perfectly plastic behavior depending upon the simplification considered in the analysis (Pressley and Poulos 1986;Muqtadir and Desai 1986;Brown and Shie 1990;Trochanis et al 1991). Wakai et al (1999) have simulated a number of models on fixed and free head pile groups by using 3D elastic-plastic FE method and found a good correlation between the experimental and analytical results. Bourgeois et al (2010) …”

“…In FE modeling, all components are modeled with solid elements, typically isoparametric hexahedron elements / brick elements (Brown and Shie 1990;Kimuara et al1995;Muqtadir and Desai 1986;Trochanis 1991;Wakai et al 1999;Elgamal et al 2003;Jeremic 2003, 2005). Interface elements simulate interaction between the soil and structural elements, which includes behavior such as stick or no slip mode, slip or sliding mode, and separation or debonding mode (Muqtadir and Desai 1986;Elgamal et al 2003;Yang and Jeremic 2003;Petek 2006;Lam et al 2009).…”

Analytical investigation of pile–soil interaction in sand under axial and lateral loads

“…In the elastic approach, the soil is assumed as an elastic continuum. Recently, numerical methods have gained momentum; therefore, a number of researchers used linear and nonlinear finite element analysis to study the pile-soil interaction (Yegian and Wright 1973;Desai 1974;Desai and Abel 1974;Desai and Appel 1976;Kuhlemeyer 1979;Desai et al 1981;Zaman et al 1993;Narsimha Rao and Ramkrishna 1996;Bransby and Springman 1999;Ng and Zhang 2001;Sawant and Dewaikar 2001;Krishnamoorthy and Anil 2003;Krishnamoorthy and Nitin 2005;Dewaikar et al 2007;Zhang 2009;Chore et al 2010;Muqtadir and Desai 1986;Pressley and Poulos 1986;Shie 1990a, b, 1991;Trochanis et al 1991;Kimura et al 1995;Wakai et al 1999;Pan et al 2002). The finite element approach has a capability to deal with any configurations of structures and soil.…”