Some aspects of soil-structure interaction according to Eurocode 7 Geotechnical design

Eurocode 7 on 'Geotechnical design' is now actively being implemented throughout Europe. In particular, Part 1 devoted to the 'General rules' (Part 1) has been published in 2004 and National Annexes are presently being prepared (2006). After describing shortly the history of the development of Eurocode 7, and giving the main contents of the documents, some aspects of particular interest to the soil-structure interaction modelling are described: design approaches (DA1, DA2 and DA3) for ULS verifications in persistent and transient design situations, SLS verifications and allowable movements of foundations.