Evaluation of Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the outcome of an International Workshop on Evaluation of Eurocode 7 that was held in Trinity College, Dublin in March/April 2005. The background to theWorkshop was the publication in November 2004 of Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design – Part 1: General rules. Prior to theWorkshop, ten geotechnical design examples were distributed to European engineers to prepare solutions to Eurocode 7. A large number of solutions with a range of values were received. The authors reviewed these solutions to evaluate Eurocode 7 and identify the reasons for the scatter in the results which included: different assumptions and calculation models, different interpretations of Eurocode 7, different Design Approaches, and calculation errors. Other aspects of Eurocode 7 and limit state design, such as the use of finite element analyses and serviceability limit state design, were also considered during the Workshop