I have been trying to model lateral loading of a pile. I can build everything, very similar to the excavation tutorial. Soil layers, crack line, boundary conditions, pile with interface on both sides are no problem and I can laterally load the pile at the soil surface. The actual pile has a free length of 1m where the load is applied. I extend the pile using

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structure("drawbeam","beamid",1,"fromstrucnode",33,"topoint",15,1,"segnum",1)I then apply a load at the top of the pile(beam) 100kn x-dir.
However, the beam deflections look vertical and are totally wrong (see drawing). Somehow the post process  does not like it. The soil query looks pretty good if I run a query line in the soil next to the pile.

Hi,

"disp" command displays the total displacement vector for beam elements (horizontal and vertical combined). So possibly pile vertical displacement is a lot greater than horizontal as a result the overall displacement vector is pointing more toward dominant direction (vertical in this case).

-Roozbeh