Eurocode 7 On ‘geotechnical Design’: A Code For Soil-structure Interaction

Eurocode 7 on 'Geotechnical design' is actively being implemented throughout Europe. Part 1 devoted to the 'General rules' was published by CEN in 2004. The National annexes and documents have been prepared for final implementation in the various European countries. After describing shortly the history of the development of Eurocode 7, this paper gives the main contents of the code, as well as some aspects of particular interest to the soil-structure interaction modelling: the design approaches (DA1, DA2 and DA3) for ULS verifications in persistent and transient design situations, SLS verifications and allowable movements of foundations.