Vertically Dynamic Response of an End-Bearing Pile Embedded in a Frozen Saturated Porous Medium under Impact Loading

Abstract

A frozen soil is a multiphase medium composed of solid particles, ice, and water, and the cementation between the solid particles and ice strengthens with a decrease in temperature. Based on the theory of a composite solid-state saturated porous medium, a uniform solution for the vertical vibration of an end-bearing pile in a frozen soil is derived analytically. The axial displacements under impact loading in the time domain are calculated by using the numerical inverse transformation technique. The solution can degenerate into an end-bearing pile in a saturated soil layer as the temperature approaches the freezing point. If the cementation between the solid particles and ice is ignored, the amplitude of the displacement will be overestimated. The numerical results show that temperature has a significant impact on the dynamic responses of the pile due to variation of the ice content and, consequently, of the cementation between solid particles and ice.