Research Article
Modeling Laterally Loaded Single Piles Accounting for Nonlinear Soil-Pile Interactions
Table 2
Variation of pile head displacement versus pile diameter in different linear analysis methods with constant EI for the pile.
| Pile diameter (m) | Pile head deflection (mm) | 3D pile FEM | 1D pile FEM | Consistent boundary matrix | Winkler foundation |
| 1.00 | 32.5 | 68.3 (110%) | 34.0 (5%) | 25.2 (23%) | 2.00 | 27.6 | 68.3 (148%) | 27.5 (1%) | 25.0 (10%) | 4.00 | 20.9 | 68.3 (227%) | 20.5 (2%) | 24.3 (17%) |
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