Finite layer analysis of laterally loaded piles in cross-anisotropic soils

This paper presents a finite layer method for the analysis of laterally loaded piles in isotropic and cross-anisotropic layered soils. Excellent agreement is found between the isotropic solutions computed by the finite layer method and the more rigorous finite element method. Some theoretical solutions are presented to demonstrate the effect of soil anisotropy. Two full scale field case histories have been analysed by the method using isotropic and cross-anisotropic soil models.