Settlement Analysis of Piles with Rectangular Cross Sections in Multi-Layered Soils

M. Prezzi

School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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T. Chakraborty

School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

D. Basu

School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

R. Salgado

School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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Analytical solutions for axially loaded piles with rectangular cross sections and embedded in multi-layered elastic media are obtained. The differential equations governing the displacements of the pile–soil system are obtained using variational principles. Closed-form solutions are obtained by the method of initial parameters. The input parameters needed for the analysis are only the pile geometry and the elastic constants of the soil and pile.

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