ANALYSIS ON LATERALLY LOADED GROUP （分析横向加载组）.pdf

ANALYSIS ON LATERALLY LOADED GROUP PILES BY PLAXIS 3D FOUNDATION Sri Dewi1) and Gouw Tjie-Liong 2) 1)Student, Civil Engineering Department, Bina Nusantara University 2)Lecturer, Civil Engineering Department, Bina Nusantara University ABSTRACT It has been known that a group pile lateral capacity is smaller than the sum of each pile capacity composing the group. A reduction factor, also known as efficiency factor, is required to determine the effective lateral capacity of group piles. To the authors knowledge, in most geotechnical text books, only the spacing of piles is considered in evaluating the pile group lateral capacity. No consideration on the effects of soil stiffness modulus and the total number of piles forming the group are taken into account. The availability of a geotechnical 3D finite element software, namely Plaxis 3D foundation, made it possible to evaluate those factors. It is found that the bigger the number of piles in a group the lower the efficiency factor, the higher the soil stiffness modulus the greater the efficiency. Key Words: Efficiency factor, group pile lateral capacity, PLAXIS 3D Foundation 1. BACKGROUND  Only 1m diameter bored pile of 40 meter length is considered. Apart from axial loads, lateral loads induced by  The center to center spacing of piles wind, earthquakes, berthing of ships, vehicle considered are 4D, 5D and 6D, where D is the acceleration