Location

San Diego, California

Presentation Date

26 May 2010, 4:45 pm - 6:45 pm

Abstract

There are two sources of loading of the pile by the earthquake: “inertial” loading of the pile head caused by the lateral forces imposed on the superstructure, and “kinematic” loading along the length of the pile caused by the lateral soil movements developed during the earthquake. Seismic codes prescribe that piles have to be designed for soil deformations arising from the passage of seismic waves which impose curvatures and thereby lateral strains on the piles along their whole length. Accepting these lines, the new Italian seismic normative (NTC, 2008) specify that kinematic effects should be taken into account in the design of pile foundations. Pseudo-static approaches for the seismic analysis of pile foundations are attractive for practicing engineers because they are simple when compared to difficult and more complex dynamic analyses. Thus, in the paper a simplified numerical model for the analysis of the behavior of a single pile subjected to static loadings and/or to lateral soil movements based on the “p-y” subgrade reaction method has been adopted. The approach involves two main steps: first a free-field site response analysis is carried out to obtain the soil displacements along the pile; next a static load analysis is carried out for the pile subjected to the maximum free-field soil displacements at each node along its length and the static loading at the pile head based on the maximum ground surface acceleration.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Final Version

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English

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A Simplified Approach for the Evaluation of Kinematic Pile Bending

San Diego, California

There are two sources of loading of the pile by the earthquake: “inertial” loading of the pile head caused by the lateral forces imposed on the superstructure, and “kinematic” loading along the length of the pile caused by the lateral soil movements developed during the earthquake. Seismic codes prescribe that piles have to be designed for soil deformations arising from the passage of seismic waves which impose curvatures and thereby lateral strains on the piles along their whole length. Accepting these lines, the new Italian seismic normative (NTC, 2008) specify that kinematic effects should be taken into account in the design of pile foundations. Pseudo-static approaches for the seismic analysis of pile foundations are attractive for practicing engineers because they are simple when compared to difficult and more complex dynamic analyses. Thus, in the paper a simplified numerical model for the analysis of the behavior of a single pile subjected to static loadings and/or to lateral soil movements based on the “p-y” subgrade reaction method has been adopted. The approach involves two main steps: first a free-field site response analysis is carried out to obtain the soil displacements along the pile; next a static load analysis is carried out for the pile subjected to the maximum free-field soil displacements at each node along its length and the static loading at the pile head based on the maximum ground surface acceleration.