Abstract:By briefly describing the calculation process of pile foundation by M method, the single pile example and the group pile example are calculated respectively by M method and finite element method to obtain the calculation results of pile displacement, pile bending moment, pile shear force and pile surrounding soil stress under two kinds of calculation examples. It is found that the difference between M method and finite element method in the calculation of each pile response result is small, and the trend of other response results is basically the same except the pile surrounding soil stress. In addition, the reasons of the difference between the results of pile foundation displacement and soil stress around the pile when the pile foundation depth into soil is z ≥ 4.0 / α by two methods are analyzed.