Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
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Is it possible to model a single cylindrical pile under lateral loads as an axisymmetric condition. Of course under vertical loads, the condition is axisymmetric but I am not sure about that under lateral loads.
Regards
Jalil
Regards
Jalil





RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
I have confused because I have read the following sentence in a book:
"Unless the pile cross section is circular, the laterally loaded pile /soil system represents a three-dimensional problem."
I think the model is 3D even for circular cross section.
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
personally, i think these "short cuts" are mostly irrelevent in todays world of massive memory and speedy machines.
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
corus
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
Jiligeo, see the answer in the Ansys forum. I do suppose that, if you posted also there, you are using Ansys. Ansys is one of these codes which can handle non-axisymmetric loads on axisymmetric models, using "Harmonic elements" and, as Corus correctly says, an expression of the loads in terms of truncated Fourier series. You can express almost every kind of load distribution with this technique, however in general you won't need more than the first one or two terms of the Fourier series.
Regards
RE: Cylindrical pile under Lateral load- axisysmmetric condition
Regards
Jalil