BEM analysis of laterally loaded piles in multi-layered transversely isotropic soils
This paper presents a theory for the static analysis of laterally loaded piles embedded in multi-layered transversely isotropic soils. Boundary element method (BEM) is applied to the pilesoil model where the floating pile is modeled as a BernoulliEuler beam using the finite difference method and the layered soil is represented utilizing a decoupled analytical layer-element solution as a kernel function for its high accuracy and efficiency. Several numerical examples presented reveal that the pile behavior is affected synthetically by both transverse isotropy and stratified character of soil and the pile's size and physical properties.
laterally loaded piles boundary element method (bem) analytical layer-element solution transverse isotropy multi-layered soils