You are tasked to research and write a 2-3 page summary on a specific topic. You must use at least three quality references. Aquality reference is an article, journal paper, book, or interview from a technical expert. Other references are allowed, but ALL references should be cited and documented appropriately. These write-ups will be graded on the technical merit as well as the professionalism with which they arewritten and presented. The topic is:
Action of soils around driven piles:
a) Load transfer in cohesive and cohesionless soils.
b) Excess pore pressure generation and dissipation
c) Pile capacity mobilization
d) Effective overburden pressure
e) lateral earth pressure.