Considering that there is little study about shaft resistance transfer behavior of overlength pile and the theory is based on short pile yet
shaft load transfer function of overlength single pile which considering depth influence is presented. Moreover
load transfer method and FEM are combined. The load transfer function mentioned above is used to simulate rule of shaft resistance of single pile. Method of inversion is used to obtain parameters of shaft load transfer function. Example shows that the results that depth effect is considered is greater than the one that depth effect is not considered and the first one is closer to the test result. Considering depth effect is reasonable and necessary.