ETASIC ANALYSIS OF A PILE BY FINITE-INFINITE ELEMENT METHOD

This paper presents a method for elastic analysis of a pile which is based on the combination of the finite element method with the infinite element method.Compared with the finite element method,the analytical method developed in the paper has good accuracy and gives large savings in time and expense. The analytical results is compared with those from pile load tests.It is shown there is good agreement between observed and predicted results,it also can be seen that it is important to con- sider nonhomgeneous soil around a pile shaft in predicting the settlement and axial load of a pile.