Design of deep excavations according to Eurocode 7

Abstract

The paper presents the procedure of introducing Eurocode 7 into the design practice in Poland. Within the paper, currently used design methods have been compared to new ones, which will be soon used together with the introduction of Eurocodes. In order to make the comparison, numerical analysis has been performed on two simple example cases presented by the committee ERTC-10 „Evaluation of Eurocode 7”. That gave authors an opportunity to assess and compare properly different design approaches – up-to-date and new, now being introduced. Final conclusions and issues open for further discussion have been presented in the end of the paper.