Study of the soil-pile interaction under horizontal loading
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https://doi.org/10.24849/j.geot.2015.133.07Keywords:
Soil, Pile, Soil reaction coefficientAbstract
In the study was used a vertical reinforced concrete pile, subjected to horizontal load and moment, partially buried in a cohesive soil. The calculation model was generated in the software SAP2000. The pile was modeled as beam element and the soil represented by linearly elastic springs spaced one meter apart, based on the Winkler model. The spring coefficients (Ki) were calculated from the equation proposed by Vesic, which correlates the reaction coefficient with the elastic properties of the soil. The results of SAP2000 calculations show that the pile used in the analysis presented flexural behavior, with their displacements caused due to bending. The region that shows the relevant behavior of the pile agrees with the the findings of other authors. The maximum horizontal displacements and bending moments found with SAP2000 were close to the values obtained by the classical differential equation method.
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