While designing the pile as a column, the end conditions adopted is -
One end fixed and other end hinged
Therefore, a common and often conservative idealization for a pile considered as a column is having one end fixed (at the bottom) and the other end hinged (at the top) . For a column with one end fixed and the other end hinged, the theoretical effective length factor (k) is 0.7. Therefore, the correct answer is One end fixed and other end hinged.
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