Urban development is currently being undertaken in many cities around the world and the level of activity is likely to increase in the future. Because of limited surface space, much of this development involves exploitation underground. New construction will have to be carried out among existing buildings and services and the close proximity of the various different forms of construction will provide considerable interaction between them. This will have to be considered in the design of new construction to ensure they are both safe and aconomic. Consequently, calculations will have to be performed which quantify the interaction effects.
Advanced numerical analysis, which has undergone major development during the past ten years, is the ideal tool for performing these calculations. However, such analysis procedures are relatively new and several issues have to be resolved before their use can be generally accepted. One of these issues is the provision of guidelines for the use of numerical analysis. This report attempts to provide such a set of guidelines.
This document has been prepared as part of the Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) Action C7 for Soil-Structure Interaction in Urban Civil Engineering. COST C7 consists of 67 members representing 17 countries and was formed and funded by the European Commission.
