Question: ( a ) For a pile / shaft in clay soil, draw conceptually the pile / shaft deflection, soil reaction, bending moment, and shear diagrams

(a) For a pile/shaft in clay soil, draw conceptually the pile/shaft deflection, soil reaction, bending moment, and shear diagrams for free headed and fixed headed long flexible piles.
Free Headed
deflections
soil reaction
bending moment
shear
Fixed Headed
deflections
soil reaction
bending moment
shear
b) Determine the horizontal displacement of a square pile of 0.5m width and 15m long when the applied horizontal load equals 100kN(consider free head). Consider the pile made of concrete and the soil modulus constant is constant and equal to 80MPa.
( a ) For a pile / shaft in clay soil, draw

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