The existing civil engineering standards for designing are to be replaced
with a set of Eurocodes. Eurocode 7 is related to a geotechnical design, but
its implementation is difficult, due to different geological, geographical
and climate conditions which lead to development of different local designing
traditions all over Europe. In order to overcome them, Eurocode 7 offers
three design approaches and sets of partial factors to be used within. After
accepting it, each country has to declare on the selection of design approach
according to which designing is going to be performed and to define
appropriate partial factors. This paper presents methodology for selection of
appropriate design approach for spread foundations in our region where the
process of introduction of Eurocodes is still active. The method based on
keeping up with the similar designing procedure may also be used for other
geotechnical structures.
Selection of design approach for designing spread foundatons in our region according to Eurocode 7
