Pile foundation design using Microsoft Excel

This article presents a program called Pile‐D developed for the teaching of pile foundation design to undergraduate level geotechnical engineering students. The program performs drained and undrained analysis for frictional resistance of the pile in clay, and uses critical depth approach for the analysis of the pile in sand. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 15: 355–366, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com); DOI 10.1002/cae.20206