Pile design to Eurocode 7 and the UK National Annex Part 2: UK National Annex

摘要

This two-part paper presents a summary of the provisions for pile design according to Eurocode 7 and the UK National Annex. Part I21, which was published in the previous issue of Ground Engineering, covered the provisions of Eurocode 7 itself (ENs 1997-1 and -2).rnPart 2 presents the values of the various partial factors required by the UK National Annex, together with a description of the process by which they were derived.rnPart 2 also includes two worked examples showing the application of the Eurocode rules. (NB the numbering of tables, figures, and references continues from the previous paper.)