Study on vertical and batter piles subjected to lateral loads in different non-cohesive sub-soil conditions

Abstract

ABSTRACT Model tests on fixed head single vertical and batter piles were carried out in the laboratory under different non-cohesive sub-soil conditions Vertical and batter piles made of mild steel were placed in a model tank and lateral loads were applied. It was observed that the negative batter pile offered maximum resistance to lateral loads as compared to vertical and positive batter pile. Increase in thickness of fine sand layer overlaid on coarse sand caused a decrease in load-carrying capacity of the pile. Hence, top layer sand of a particular height controlled the deflection of the pile in the case of layered sand. Further, a model was developed using artificial neural networks (ANN) to predict the deflection of the pile. The results obtained from ANN model were compared with the experiment and theoretical solutions available in the literature and found in close agreement.