Home About us News Work Groups Design Plant Innovation Job Reports Search Sponsors Login Terms & Conditions Work Groups Workgroup A Workgroup B Workgroup C Workgroup D Workgroup E Workgroup F Workgroup G Steering Committee Work Group H WORK GROUP A Using Eurocodes inc. partial factors Workgroup Leader                                                       Workgroup members Andrew Bond - Geocentrix                                                  Graham White - ArcelorMittal                                                                                             Rob Moulds - Bam Nuttall                                                                                             Richard Newman - Tony Gee                                                                                             Imran Farooq - Mott MacDonald                                                                                             David Rowbottom - Tata Steel                                                                                             Sunday Obeahon - Jacobs Eng Scope of Work Workgroup brief: to consider implementation of Eurocodes with particular reference to retaining walls and steel piling General · Prepare user guide/worked examples to process of designing steel piles of all kinds · Use information from forthcoming Piling Handbook and add more worked examples · Review different arguments for dealing with water compiled and presented as NCCI · Monitor Eurocode development · Adopt watching brief on various piling codes, noting problems/ concerns and preparing solutions as they develop · Influence various UK and European Code Committees, e.g. for ENs 1997, 1993-5, 10248, 10249, 12063, 12699 · Develop easy-to-use Eurocode design primer with supporting evidence · Establish contact with members of piling related UK and Euro code committees to raise awareness of SPG · Guidance note on CE marking · How to demonstrate adequacy of a drainage system · Depths and spacing of ground Investigation for sheet pile walls Retaining walls · Minimum fluid pressure to be considered in design · Use of critical state (CV) parameters · Application of partial factors to water pressures and vertical effective stress · Choice between active or at-rest earth coefficients · Is passive earth pressure a resistance or favourable action? · Clarification on the use of wall adhesion, particularly after diving sheet piles · Review CIRIA C580 guidance regarding dividing soil stiffness by 2 Bearing piles · Application of water pressure in evaluation of effective stresses Updated by Mark Bramley, 06/03/2013 Printer friendly page

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