Appraisal of Innovative Finned-Pile Foundations to Resist Lateral Loads

Abstract

Multistoried buildings are subjected to a significant amount of lateral forces due to winds and earthquakes in onshore structures and forces due to water currents and heavy winds in offshore structures. Foundations supporting such structures as offshore wind turbines should resist extensive lateral forces and pullout forces. To sustain these loads, innovative types of pile foundations need to have experimented with in place of regular pile foundations for more economic and efficient performance. In this paper, an attempt is made to demonstrate the efficiency of adopting finned-piles concerning previous literature studies. This work highlights some of the experimental investigations, model studies, and numerical studies (FEM, FDM) adopted to find the usefulness of finned-piles in resisting the lateral loads. Some of the key-points of adopting such foundations are discussed. Finally, future untapped avenues explored on finned piles are also brought out in the paper. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.