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SUMMARY:Analysis and design of piled raft foundations allowing for pile-so
 ilraft interaction effects
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Emilios M. Comodromos\, University of Thessally\, Dep
 t of Civil Engineering\, Geotechnical Section\, Greece\nAlthough simplifie
 d design methods for piled raft foundations have been proposed to allow fo
 r group effect and soil-pile-raft interaction\, most of them are concentra
 ted on one type of loading rendering the applicability of these methods ra
 ther limited to cases under such loads. In the case of a Combined Pile Raf
 t Foundation (CPRF) the structural loads are carried partly by the piles a
 nd partly by the raft as a function of the foundation settlement rendering
  the CPRF a complex soil-structure interaction issue. Despite the recent d
 evelopment of computational resources and the advances in numerical expert
 ise\, a detailed 3-D numerical analysis\, accounting for soil nonlineariti
 es\, non-linear behavior of interfaces between the soil\, the piles and th
 e raft under various combinations of loadings remains impractical. The obj
 ective of this paper is to provide a rather simplified and straightforward
  design methodology for pile foundations under combined loadings. To achie
 ve this goal\, previous research works on the group effect under axial and
  lateral loading have been evaluated and the piles-raft interaction effect
  has been considered. The proposed procedure is fully compatible with stru
 ctural software codes and can be straightforwardly applied for the design 
 of the structural members\, since it is able to effectively solve a CPRF u
 nder numerous combinations of loadings required by most design codes.\nBio
  :  Professor Emilios Comodromos  is lecturer at the University of Thess
 ally\, Dept. of Civil Engineering\, Geotechnical Section\, Shareholder and
  Consultant at GEOSTATIKI S.A. Consulting Engineers: Geotechnical and Stru
 ctural Consultants and Consultant to public company Attiko Metro S.A. for 
 the construction of Thessaloniki’s subway. He graduated at Aristotle Uni
 versity of Thessaloniki in 1986 (top 3 %) and obtained his PhD in Geotechn
 ical Engineering in 1991 awarded by the Aristotle University of Thessaloni
 ki\, Greece.\nHis domains are :  Analysis and design of infrastructures i
 nvolving Geotechnical Engineering and soil-structure interaction projects 
 (tunnels\, foundations\, retaining structures\, rock-fill dams\, embankmen
 ts\, slope stability\, reinforced embankments etc.)\, Checker\, Reviewer a
 nd Consultant in projects mentioned above and Numerical modelling and simu
 lation including 3D non linear multi-stage analysis associated with comple
 x constitutive laws
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