“…The later, initially www.intechopen.com Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake EngineeringSoil Liquefaction and Seismic Safety of Dams and Monuments 118 suggested by Novak (1972Novak ( , 1974Novak ( and 1977 for the soils around the piles subjected to small steady-state vibrations, is able to capture the dynamic characteristics of the soil resistances and energy dissipations. Soil displacements close to a pile subjected to dynamic loading are nonlinear (Prakash and Puri, 1988;Nogami et al, 1992;Boulanger et al, 1999;El Naggar and Bently, 2000). El Naggar and Bently (2000) used a nonlinear soil model that incorporated a p-y curve approach to predict dynamic lateral response of piles to soil movement.…”