Behavior of pile due to combined loading with lateral soil movement

Abstract

Piles are commonly used to transfer vertical forces, arising primarily from super structure. Lateral loads, however, are just as important as vertical loads in designing pile foundations and are often more complicated. More powerful lateral loads occur as a result of unpredicted events such as heavy wind, earthquakes, slope failure, and lateral spread induced by liquefaction. But in actual case combined action of vertical and horizontal ground loads can occur in many situations for a pile. So the study of combined load behaviour of soil is important. But these all are suitable only in horizontal ground only. If the pile is in sloped ground then the behaviour of a pile is not only depend on the combined loading but also depends on the lateral soil movement due to the effect of slope. So in this paper by using finite element software, the behaviour of a pile due to the combined loading is studied along with and without the influence of lateral soil movement is made. The effect of the lateral soil movement is depends on the slope angle, so for this study varying slope angles (1:1, 1:1.5 and 1:2) were also considered.