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Figure 10.17 Comparison of moment profiles of single pile.

Figure 10.18 Comparison of moment profiles of leading row of piles in 6-pile group
under the maximum applied lateral load H=10,948 kN.

building rather than asking themselves the question of how many piles are
needed to reduce settlements to an acceptable level.
In spite of this primary purpose of piles, twenty-five years later, common
practice in pile group design still concentrates on providing suitable capacity
from the piles to carry the structural load, and estimation of the settlement is
generally treated as a secondary issue. The dominance of capacity-based design,