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Numerical Study of the Seismic Response of Closed-Ended Pipe Pile in Cohesionless Soils

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Closed-ended pipe piles are usually preferred over traditional piles because they are simpler and easier to handle. Also, their quality could be verified easily and at a low cost. However, the seismic response of these piles is still not clearly understood. Therefore, this paper examines the seismic performance of closed-ended pipe piles embedded in dry and saturated cohesionless soils using a validated three-dimensional finite element model. The effect of the pile material, slenderness ratio, peak ground acceleration (PGA), and soil state (i.e., dry or saturated) are considered. Four earthquake records have been used in the stress-nonlinear time history coupled analysis. It is found that the pore water pressure ratio rises as the PGA or the pile slenderness ratio increases. In addition, the lateral displacement is found to increase nonlinearly with the increase of the PGA for both dry and saturated conditions. This lateral displacement also increases as the slenderness ratio rises. A similar trend of that noticed for the lateral displacement is also noticed for the bending moment. However, the trend of the relationship between the shaft resistance and the PGA is found to depend on the soil state and soil density. Importantly, design charts have been proposed based on the results of the present study to make the results useful in the future to designers and researchers.

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Abbreviations

CE:

Closed-ended

PGA:

Peak ground acceleration

Lembedded:

Pile embedded length within the soil layers

Douter:

External diameter of the pile

Dr:

Relative density

OE:

Open-ended

(N1)60:

Equivalent clean sand corrected standard penetration test number of blows

Ø:

Internal friction angle

Dinner:

Inside diameter of the pile

ν:

Poisson’s ratio

E :

Young’s modulus

Eoed :

Tangential stiffness primary oedometer test loading

Eur :

Elastic modulus at unloading–reloading

m:

Power of stress level dependency

Rf:

Failure ratio

L:

Pile length

E.F.E.S:

External frictional resistance of pipe pile embedded in a saturated soil at early stages of applying the seismic load

E.F.S-D.D:

External frictional resistance under static-dynamic load of pipe pile embedded in dry soil

E.F.S-D.S:

External frictional resistance under static-dynamic load of pipe pile embedded in saturated soil

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  1. College of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA , 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Duaa Al-Jeznawi & I. B. Mohamed Jais

  2. College of Engineering, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq

    Duaa Al-Jeznawi & Norazlan Khalid

  3. College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

    Bushra S. Albusoda

  4. Department of Roads and Transport Engineering, University of Al-Qadisiyah, Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq

    Saif Alzabeebee

  5. Department of Civil Engineering, Thammasat School of Engineering, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand

    Suraparb Keawsawasvong

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Al-Jeznawi, D., Jais, I.B.M., Albusoda, B.S. et al. Numerical Study of the Seismic Response of Closed-Ended Pipe Pile in Cohesionless Soils. Transp. Infrastruct. Geotech. 11, 63–89 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40515-022-00273-z

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