SUMMERY OF THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMANTAL RESEARCH AND SUGGESTIONS ON CALCULATION OF LATERALLY LOADED PILES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THEIR FLEXIBILITY
Currently observed tendency of increase in the number of storeys in constructed buildings generates a need to improve calculation methods of constructions on the lateral load due because of the inevitable increase in the intensity of wind loadings transferred to them. The article presents the results of summery of experimental research of laterally loaded piles, according to which the fact was established that the development of strong shear strains of the surrounding soil due to its pile squeezing at pile bending and its rotation. On this basis, was developed the calculation method of laterally loaded piles taking into account the deformation of the piles of their bending and displacement of the bottom part of the pile due to the soil consolidation of a pile footing.