ABSTRACT
Driven piles have been commonly used as a technical solution for deep foundations. Experimental and numerical studies have been carried out to investigate pile soil interaction for driven piles (Aranov & Gudakov, 1997; Dijkstra et al., 2006; Engin, 2009 and Said et al., 2008). Due to driving process, there is a continuous change in stresses and void ratio in the vicinity of the pile. Finite Element (FE) modelling of pile installation effects is a difficult task due to lack of knowledge on soil behaviour during the installation process (Dijkstra et al. 2007).
