**5. Conclusions**

In this paper, the evolution processes of the internal force and deformation of the cantilever anti-slide pile under trapezoidal thrust load were investigated through experiments and FE methods, and a new method for calculating the internal force of the cantilever anti-slide pile is proposed. The major conclusions are drawn as follows.


**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, methodology, data curation, and formal analysis, H.J.; writing—original draft, Q.R.; investigation, S.X. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U20A20314, 41472262 and 52104184), the Key Projects of Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (No. cstc2020jcyjzdxmX0012), the Innovation Research Group of Universities in Chongqing (No. CXQT19021), the First Batch of Innovative Leading Talents in Chongqing (No. CQYC201903026), the Chongqing Graduate Research Innovation Project (No. CYB21210) and the Special Support of Chongqing Postdoctoral Research Project (No. 2021XM3038).

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** No applicable.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
