Dynamic stiffness of pile groups in a multilayered soil. Part 2

A rational analysis method is presented for calculation of the dynamic stiffness of pile groups in multilayered soil. In this paper, thin layered method is applied, and the dynamic stiffness matrix is evaluated at the pile heads. The pile is modelled as compressible Timoshenko-beam elements and the soil as visco-elastic thin layered elements. After the correlation studies between the analysis and the test results of the pile foundation with a gap between the foundation bottom and the ground surface, the analysis method is amended for the dynamic stiffness of the pile foundation without a gap or with embedment. For these correlation analyses, the presented methods are verified to be applicable for the evaluation of pile group foundation stiffness