Load transfer from an elastic pile to a saturated porous elastic soil

The quasi-static development of the force, pore pressure and displacement is obtained in the system of a circular elastic pile partially embedded in a saturated porous elastic soil, and loaded axially on the top. The porous elastic soil is governed by Biot's theory. The problem is decomposed into two systems, namely, an extended porous elastic half-space in the absence of the pile characterized by the material constants of the medium, and a fictitious pile represented by a Young's modulus equal to the difference between the Young's moduli of the real pile and the medium. The problem is found to be governed by a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. Laplace transforms are applied to time functions involved, and Hankel transforms to the radial coordinate of which the origin is at the centre of the pile. Numerical solutions are obtained for final and initial solutions for various practical values of the parameters involved.