Research Article

Bearing Characteristics of Composite Pile Group Foundations with Long and Short Piles under Lateral Loading in Loess Areas

Figure 13

Axial force distribution with respect to H for the nine-pile group under different horizontal loads.
(a) #1 pile
(b) #8 pile
(c) Axial comparison of Pile 1 between the numerical and experimental results
(d) Axial comparison of Pile 8 between the numerical and experimental results