Lateral load on piles

[rittz]

I have brouught up the site described in the attached pdf but I could not find the aricle described in the post Has anyone managed to locate it?

 

[FixedEarth]

I use LATERAL FOUNDATION program by Soil Stucture. It is based on lateral subgrade modulus/springs & beam on elastic foundation approach. I like it, because I can see the deflection and the induced moment.

 

[IDS]

Here's the link (courtesey of Google):

http://www.in.gov/indot/files/rdmetric.pdf

There's loads of free stuff on the program COM624 (including at my blog linked below), if you want to follow that up.

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

 

[jimstructures]

I did a search of the site and came up with the following link:

http://www.in.gov/indot/files/rdmetric.pdf

Titled: General Instructions for Bridge Structure Investigations July 1996

I have no idea if this is the article you are looking for, but it does mention piles in the table of contents,

Jim H