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In the past decades, the behavior of pile foundations in liquefiable sands has been studied extensively; however, similar investigations of soft clays or static/seismic response of piles in improved soft clay soils are scarce. Despite the widespread presence of this soil type in high seismic regions and the frequent need to locate bridges and buildings in soft clay, only a few investigations have been carried out to guide engineers in evaluating the effectiveness of ground improvement techniques on increasing the lateral resistance of pile foundation embedded in soft clay, and no numerical models have been validated to evaluate this approach. Thus, the objective of this research was to develop modified p-y curves for Winkler analysis to characterize the lateral load behavior of a single pile embedded in a volume of improved clay surrounded by unimproved soft clays. A detailed literature review was completed in the study, aiming to gain knowledge on the development and fields of applications together with limitations of different ground improvement techniques. The ability of each available analysis method for lateral loaded piles was assessed for determining lateral responses of pile foundation in a volume of improved soil surrounded by unimproved soil. A method of developing p-y curve modification factors to account for the effect of the improved soil on enhancing the lateral load behavior of a single pile embedded in soft clay was developed by integrating the effectiveness of the improved soil into the procedures of constructing p-y curves for stiff clay recommended by Welch and Reese (1972). It was achieved by estimating the effective length for a infinitely long soil layer with soil improvement so that the fraction of the load resisted by the soil improved over a

Development of modified p-y curves for Winkler Analysis to characterize the lateral load behavior of a single pile embedded in improved soft clay