Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Abstract
Pile foundations are often subject to lateral loads and axial loads. Although design methods for axial loading are well developed, lateral loading cases have attracted more attention recently following reported case histories of piles damaged during earthquakes. In this work, pile design due to lateral loading in tuff soils is considered. Pile deflections, bending moment and rotation were analyzed with OpenSeesPL program, a 3D finite element tool. OpenSeesPL is used to model the properties of the piles which are embedded in tuff and laterally load tested in Izmir. The displacement calculated by OpenSeesPL of 2.25mm is close to the measured 2.5mm. In this study, influence of pile length was investigated. From the results, it was observed that as the pile length increased from 6m to 20.5m, the movement, displacement and the rotation of the pile has decreased. In addition, with the same program, lateral displacement of a single pile in sandy and clayey soil layers were also analyzed with the results summarized. In all types of soils, as the pile length has decreased, the pile displacement has increased.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
7th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2013 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Teymur, Berrak and Şekerer, Zeynep, "Behaviour of Laterally Loaded Piles" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 9.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session08/9
Behaviour of Laterally Loaded Piles
Chicago, Illinois
Pile foundations are often subject to lateral loads and axial loads. Although design methods for axial loading are well developed, lateral loading cases have attracted more attention recently following reported case histories of piles damaged during earthquakes. In this work, pile design due to lateral loading in tuff soils is considered. Pile deflections, bending moment and rotation were analyzed with OpenSeesPL program, a 3D finite element tool. OpenSeesPL is used to model the properties of the piles which are embedded in tuff and laterally load tested in Izmir. The displacement calculated by OpenSeesPL of 2.25mm is close to the measured 2.5mm. In this study, influence of pile length was investigated. From the results, it was observed that as the pile length increased from 6m to 20.5m, the movement, displacement and the rotation of the pile has decreased. In addition, with the same program, lateral displacement of a single pile in sandy and clayey soil layers were also analyzed with the results summarized. In all types of soils, as the pile length has decreased, the pile displacement has increased.
