This study was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Sumusu Kono in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) and Prof. Katrin Beyer from the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) laboratory in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). This master thesis is preceded by a small pre-study project, where a general literature review on foundation piles subjected to earthquake and some preliminary models of various piles types have been done. The objectives of this pre-study was to learn correctly how to handle the finite element software Opensees1 and constitute some research background on the subject.