ABSTRACT
The installation of Jack-in piles involved the quasistatic insertion of a solid cylindrical or square pile into the ground by means of large hydraulic pressures. During the installation, the soil around the pile is pushed away and compacted while the stresses surrounding the pile are significantly increased. These complicate the problem significantly. The complexity of the problem and their interaction explain why litte progress has been made to date in modelling of displacement piles in FEM (Broere & Tol, 2006).
