"The design philosophy adopted in Eurocode 7 is the same as that adopted in all the Eurocodes and advocates the use of limit state design to ensure that the serviceability limit states are not exceeded..." (Section 7.4.2)

Resources for Chapter 7:

Addendum: Example 7.2

Table 7 .1

Example 7.1 *

Example 7.2 *

Example 7.3 * ^†

Example 7.4 * ^†

Spreadsheet of partial factor sets

Ka values - horiz surface and delta equal to phi ^‡

Exercises:* Ex 7.1, Ex 7.2, Ex 7.3^†, Ex 7.4^†, Ex 7.5: (7.1), (7.2), (7.3)

Exercises

* Click "No" or "Don't update" if prompted by dialogue box. These spreadsheets should really be saved locally (right click on link) in the same folder as the partial factors spreadsheet for correct operation.

^†These spreadsheets contain Macros. Click "Enable Macros" if prompted.

^‡For use with Example 7.1

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