Lateral Loaded Pile Response in Liquefiable Soil
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 129, Issue 5
Abstract
This paper provides a new analysis procedure for assessing the lateral response of an isolated pile in saturated sands as liquefaction develops in response to dynamic loading such as that generated during earthquake shaking. This new procedure predicts the degradation in pile response and soil resistance due to the free-field excess porewater pressure generated by the earthquake, along with the near-field excess porewater pressure generated by lateral loading from the superstructure. The new procedure involves the integration of the developing (free- and near-field) porewater pressure in the strain wedge (SW) model analysis. The current SW model, developed to evaluate drained response (a nonlinear three-dimensional model) of a flexible pile in soil, has been extended in this paper to incorporate the undrained response of a laterally loaded pile in liquefied sand. This new procedure has the capability of predicting the response of a laterally loaded isolated pile and the associated modulus of subgrade reaction (i.e., the curve) in a mobilized fashion as a result of developing liquefaction in the sand. Current design procedures assume slight or no resistance for the lateral movement of the pile in the liquefied soil which is a conservative practice. Alternatively, if liquefaction is assessed not to occur, some practitioners take no account of the increased free-field porewater pressure, and none consider the additional near-field porewater pressure due to inertial interaction loading from the superstructure; a practice that is unsafe in loose sands.
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Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 129 • Issue 5 • May 2003
Pages: 404 - 414
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Copyright © 2003 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jan 4, 2000
Accepted: Aug 26, 2002
Published online: Apr 15, 2003
Published in print: May 2003
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