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Blog | Eurocode 7 - Partial Factor and Design Approach

2020.12.01

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01- Design Approaches



There are three design approach to control the strength of soil, and applied load (surcharge).

Soil strength such as cohesion, friction angle and dilatancy angle will be reduced using the partial factor. Load (surcharge) will be increased with partial factor. Below 

There are descriptions about design approaches as below,

 

Design Approach 1 (DA1)

There are two combinations from Design Approach 1.

Combination 1: A1 + M1 + R1

Combination 2: A2 + M2 + R1

 

Design Approach 2 (DA2)

Combination: A1 + M1 + R2

 

Design Approach 3 (DA3)

Combination: (A1 or A2) + M2 + R3

 

Combinations are denoted by A (for actions or effects of actions), M (for soil parameters) and R (for resistances). They are selected according to the used Design Approaches.

 

 

02- Partial Factors

 

1) Partial Factors on action (A)

For the verification of structural (STR) and geotechnical (GEO) limit states set A1 or set A2 of the following partial factors on action or the effects of actions shall be applied. The recommended values for buildings in EN 1990 for the two sets A1 and A2 are given in table below,

partial factors on acti 

 

2) Partial Factors for soil parameters (M)


For the verification of structural (STR) and geotechnical (GEO) limit state set M1 or set M2 of the following partial factors on soil parameters shall be applied.

 

partial factors for soil parametersThe recommended values for the two sets M1 and M2 are given in table below,

 

recommended values for partial factors3) Partial Factors for Resistance (R)

 

For spread foundations and verifications of structural (STR) and geotechnical (GEO) limit states, set R1, R2 and R3 of the following partial factors on resistance shall be applied. The recommended values for the three sets R1, R2 and R3 are given in table below,

 

partial factors for resistance

The recommended values for partial factor can be summarized in table below,

 

partial factor for desgin approach1

partial factor for design approach2

partial factor for design approach 3

 

 

Read More About Eurocode >> 

1- What is Eurocode?
2- Design Approach and Partial Factor3- Verification and Application to FEM Software


 

Topics Finite Element Method Limit State Design

MIDAS GEO TEAM

Written by MIDAS GEO TEAM

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