Versteijlen, W.G. (author), Renting, F.W. (author), Valk, van der, P.L.C. (author), Bongers, J. (author), van Dalen, K.N. (author), Metrikine, A. (author) It is widely accepted that the initial stiffness derived with the p-y methodology as prescribed by the American Petroleum Institute does not capture the true small-strain stiffness for rigidly behaving piles. We present an alternative method, capturing the 3D effects in the soil-pile interaction, in which the soil is characterized with in-situ...
journal article 2017