The soil under the piled raft foundation system was simulated by linear extended D-P elastic-plastic soil model. 3D finite element model of ABAQUS program was established to obtain some behaviors of the piled raft foundation system by comparison of load-settlement curves of several foundations. Composite pile foundation design method was studied and improved combined with Code for Design of Building Foundation (GB5007-2002)
then the three-stage concept was discussed. Computation results show that these two methods are more economical than conventional design methods.