The procedure if you use a continuum model is you create a block and a pile, subtract the pile from the block, share topology and assign materials to the pile and soil. The procedure if you use beam models is to create a beam for the pile with the correct cross-section and material properties and attach springs. Is the cap above the soil or in the soil?Īre you on a Student license or a full license? The Student license has a limit of < 32,000 nodes+elements which will make it difficult to build a continuum model, but you can easily build a beam model with nonlinear springs to represent the soil, however, that was in paper (1) that was studying earthquake ground motion causing inertial side loads on the structure. What results do you want from your model?Īre the static loads on the pile cap vertically downward?Īre you modeling a single pile or a group of piles connected to a cap?Īre the piles supported at the bottom on bedrock or only soil?Īre you going to have different layers of soil properties?

I am not an expert in soil modeling, but I did find a few articles on the Internet ( 1) ( 2).

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