Pile Foundations are an essential basis for many structures. It is vital that they be designed with the utmost reliability, because the cost of failure is potentially huge. Covering a whole range of design issues relating to pile design, this book presents economical and efficient design solutions and demonstrates them using real world examples. Co

Wei Dong Guo is Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Introduction. Mechanism and Model for Pile-Soil Interaction. Vertically Loaded Single Piles. Time-Dependent Response of Vertically Loaded Single Piles. Design of Rock-socketed (Nonlinear) Piles. Laterally Loaded Elastic Piles. Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles/Piers. Laterally Loaded Free-head Piles. Settlement of Vertically Loaded Pile Groups. Laterally Loaded Pile Groups. Passive Piles. Field and Laboratory Monitoring.