Abstract
Many methods have been developed for the analysis of the dynamic behavior of piles using simplified models where either non-linear behavior of the pile near field were neglected or a full non-linear analysis were conducted with considerable computational efforts. The proposed method has the objective of combining the merits of the above-mentioned methods. It presents a new numerical approach to analyze the pile-soil interaction system taking into account the effects of the behavior of the soil at infinity and at the same time accounting for the non-linearities existing in the soil adjacent to the pile, hence the time domain analysis.