“…Dynamic studies of pile foundations by centrifuge tests were conducted by Abdoun et al (2003) and Knappett and Madabhushi (2012), while Boominathan and Ayothiraman (2005) analyzed the response of piles subjected to lateral loads in clay subjected to steady state harmonic vibrations only. The analysis of a single pile and pile group using analytical and numerical techniques, and considering the effects of either lateral loading or vertical loading under seismic conditions, have been implemented by Bhattacharya et al (2004Bhattacharya et al ( , 2009, Liyanapathirana and Poulos (2005a, b), Bhattacharya and Madabhushi (2008), Cubrinovski et al (2009), Dash et al (2010), Phanikanth et al (2013), Rovithis et al (2013), Bouckovalas and Chaloulos (2014), Chatterjee et al (2015a, b), Choudhury et al (2015), Dowling et al (2016), Kumar and Choudhury (2016), Kumar et al (2016) and Chatterjee (2018) in both liquefiable and non-liquefiable soils. However it is found that there are very few reports in the literature on the numerical analysis of a pile subjected to both vertical and horizontal loads under seismic loading conditions and hence the present study adopts a method to fill this existing research gap.…”