Title Authors Journal, Year

Lateral Response Evaluation of Single Piles Using Inclinometer Data San-Shyan Lin and Jen-Cheng Liao Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2006 developing a new simple analytical method to interpreting lateral singlepile load test results base on measure inclinometer data only however the inclinometer data collected are prone to reduction errors, a method was proposed to minimize the errors to determine p-y curve with the field data collected from inclinometer, the author able to obtain the deflection, moment, shear force and soil resistance along the shaft.

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Methodology

The deflection function of laterally loaded piles is derived based on the principal of conservation of energy and the application of the calculus of variation. Measured inclinometer data form lateral pile load tests, which implicitly include pile-soil interaction effects, were utilized to determine the coefficients of the derived deflection function. Once the deflection is established, bending moment, shear force, and p-y curves at various depths along the pile can be reduced by differentiating the deflection function. The author had verified his proposed method with three real case histories and the comparison of the results show a good agreement. Only inclinometer data is needed for deriving the deflection function The derived deflection function can be used to describe lateral behaviors of a single pile system satisfying either free or fixed with away pile head boundary conditions Nonlinear behavior for variation of the flexural rigidity of the pile is considered in the analysis and adjusted for each load increment The assumption in the theory are: 1) soil response is idealized as onedimensional; 2) pile material behavior is assumed as nonlinear elastic; and 3) Lateral loading is applied only at pile head The method only applicable to long pile only. Long pile is defined with the ratio of the pile length versus the relative stiffness factor larger than 4

Important findings

Limitations

Gaps in research

Using the same method but with some modification, a new model can be develop which is applicable to the short pile with high loading.

Any other important point

The authors method is not suitable to be used in my research because in his method he assumed that the lateral load is only on the pile head.