Tag Archives: laterally loaded piles

Daily Download 7: Lateraly loaded pile analysis

Today’s downloads (the last in the Engineering category) are related to the analysis of piles subject to lateral loads: LatPile – Analysis of Lateral Loads on Piles describes the principles of the analysis. Download file: http://interactiveds.com.au/software/LatPile.zip  P-Y Curve function describes function to … Continue reading

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LatPilePY 1.03

The LatPilePY spreadsheet has been updated with detailed corrections to the function for generating PY curves.  The updated version can be downloaded from LatPilePY.zip. See LatPilePY 1.02 for more details of the spreadsheet content and background.

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LatPilePY 1.02

Following some discussion at Eng-Tips and elsewhere I have updated the LatPilePY spreadsheet, previously presented at Lateral pile analysis with PY curves …  This spreadsheet provides User Defined Functions (UDFs) to carry out the analysis of vertical piles under lateral loading, … Continue reading

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LatPile update

I have just posted an update to the LatpilePY spreadsheet, fixing a bug in the way in which it read the first row of data from input PY curves, which was resulting in the program failing to run if there were … Continue reading

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Beam on Elastic Foundations Analysis

A previous post on laterally loaded piles used a finite difference analysis to analyse the deflections and forces in a vertical pile subject to a lateral load at the top.  An alternative approach to the same problem is presented in “Programming the Finite … Continue reading

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