Insight on kinematic bending of flexible piles in layered soil

Kinematic response of single piles for different boundary conditions: Analytical solutions and normalization schemes

“…In addition to the theoretical work, post-earthquake investigations [15,16,17] have highlighted the vulnerability of pile foundations (even in non-liquefied soil) by revealing damage at the pile head and/or depths where inertial forces are negligible.…”

“…Other contributions [17,24,25,26,27,28,29,30] have investigated the behaviour of piles in two-and multi-layer soil deposits under both harmonic and transient excitation.…”

1-g Experimental investigation of bi-layer soil response and kinematic pile bending

“…Studies on dynamic soil-pile interaction have been carried out over the years, mostly by means of numerical approaches such as the finite-element [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] and the boundary-element method [8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

Piles-Induced Filtering Action and Its Effect on the Seismic Response of Buildings

“…It consists of comparing the results of the complete model with those predicted by the free-field conditions at the location of the boundary. For the problem under examination, Di Laora et al [22] have shown that the assumption of tied boundaries provides sufficient accuracy, provided that the width of the entire model is large enough. To this aim, the lateral boundary of the model was set at 400 d from the pile axis.…”