Analyzing some examples of pile-supported wharf modeling,we adopt thep-y curve method to study the soil-pile interaction and discuss the effect of load patterns for pushover analysis of pile-supported wharf.The stresses and the displacement under different loading patterns are analyzed and compared.In addition,the results are compared to that calculated by the time history method.Results show that the yield sequence of pile foundation is mainly affected by the slope of pile and the inclined direction.The uniform distribution loading pattern represents respectively the maximum values calculated by the pushover analysis for aseismic calculation.The result of the concentrated force loading pattern and the SRSS loading pattern are very close to that by the time history method.