Design Codes

Title Description Material Country Programs
AASHTO

Specifications for the design of highway bridges.

USA 25
AASHTO ASD

Standard (allowable stress design) specifications for highway bridges.

USA 2
AASHTO LFD

Standard (load factor design) specifications for highway bridges.

USA 5
AASHTO LRFD

Load and Resistance Factor Design specifications for highway bridges.

USA 17
AASHTO LRFD 2007

Load and Resistance Factor Design specifications for highway bridges. 2007 Edition.

USA 2
ACI

Code for the design of concrete structures.

concrete USA 12
ACI 209

Creep and shrinkage in concrete.

concrete USA 1
ACI 318

American Concrete Institute - code for the design of concrete structures.

USA 17
ACI-318-02

American Concrete Institute - code for the design of concrete structures.

concrete USA 6
AISC

Design code for steel structures.

steel USA 18
AISC-ASD

Allowable Stress Design for steel structures.

steel USA 7
AISC-LRFD

Load and Resistance Factor Design for Steel Structure.

steel USA 8
AISI

American Institute of Steel Construction.

steel USA 3
AS 3600 - concrete

Australian code for structural concrete

concrete Australia 7
AS 3700 - masonry

Australian code for residential masonry.

masonry Australia 1
AS 4100 - steel

Australian code for steel structures.

steel Australia 2
AS 5100 - bridges

Australian code for bridges.

Australia 2
ASCE 7

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures

USA 4
ASCE 7-05

Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, 2005

USA 3
ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials.

USA 3
ASTM A416

Standard Specification for Steel Strand, Uncoated Seven-Wire for Prestressed Concrete

prestressing steel 2
ASTM E-917 - Life-Cycle Cost

Practice for Measuring Life-Cycle Costs of Buildings and Building Systems

USA 1
Austroads

Austroads is the association of Australian and New Zealand road transport and traffic authorities that aims to improve road and road transport outcomes.

Australia 1
BAEL France 5
BBK Sweden 1
BS - British Standards

British Standards - National Standards Body of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom 5
BS 1192

Construction drawing practice. Guide for structuring and exchange of CAD data.

United Kingdom 2
BS 4466 - Reinforcement

British Standards - National Standards Body of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom 2
BS 449 - Steel (Legacy)

British Standard for the design, fabrication and erection of structural steelwork. Was replaced by BS 5950.

steel United Kingdom 0
BS 5268 - Timber

Design code for structural use of timber.

United Kingdom 4
BS 5400 - Bridges

British code for steel, concrete and composite bridges. Code of practice for the design of composite bridges.

United Kingdom 7
BS 5896 - prestressing steel

High Tensile Steel Wire and Strand for the Prestressing of Concrete.

prestressing steel United Kingdom 1
BS 5950 - Steel Design for Fire

Structural use of steelwork in building. Code of practice for fire resistant design.

steel United Kingdom 7
BS 5950-01 - Steel steel United Kingdom 4
BS 5950-85 - Steel steel United Kingdom 1
BS 8110 - Concrete

British standard for structural concrete.

concrete United Kingdom 14
BS 8666 - Reinforcement

Scheduling, dimensioning, bending and cutting of steel reinforcement for concrete.

concrete reinforcement United Kingdom 3
CALTRANS Seismic Design Criteria California, USA 3
CAN/CSA-S6-00 (R2005)

Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. Combines and replaces two previous publications: Design of Highway Bridges (CAN/CSA-S6-88) and the Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code (1991).

Canada 1
cep-fib - concrete model

CEB-FIP model code for concrete structures

concrete Europe 5
CISC

Canadian Institute of Steel Construction.

Canada 4
CSA A23.3-94

Design of Concrete Structures.

concrete Canada 4
CSA-A23.3-04

Design of Concrete Structures.

concrete Canada 2
CSI

Construction Specification Institute

0
CTE steel Spain 1
DIN - German Standards Germany 3
DIN 1045 - concrete

German code for the design of concrete structures.

concrete Germany 3
DIN 1072

Road and foot bridges; design loads

Germany 0
DIN 18800 - steel

German code for the design of structural steel.

steel Germany 3
EA - steel steel Spain 1
EA-95 - steel

Spanish code for design of steel structures.

steel Spain 2
EAE steel Spain 1
EAK 2000 Greece 2
EC - Eurocode

EN1990 Eurocode - Basis of Structural Design

Europe 13
EC 1 - Actions

EN1991 Eurocode 1 - Actions on structures

Europe 4
EC 2 - Concrete

EN1992 Eurocode 2 - Design of concrete structures

concrete Europe 24
EC 3 - Steel

EN1993 Eurocode 3 - Design of steel structures

steel Europe 20
EC 4 - Composite Steel / Concrete

EN1994 Eurocode 4 - Design of composite steel and concrete structures

Europe 3
EC 5 - Timber

EN1995 Eurocode 5 - Design of timber structures

timber Europe 3
EC 6 - Masonry

EN1996 Eurocode 6 - Design of masonry structures

masonry Europe 3
EC 7 - Geotechnical

EN1997 Eurocode 7 - Geotechnical design

Europe 3
EC 8 - Seismic

EN1998 Eurocode 8 - Design of structures for earthquake resistance

Europe 9
EC 9 - Alumnium

EN1999 Eurocode 9 - Design of aluminium structures

Europe 1
EHE concrete Spain 6
GB50010 - concrete

Code for design of concrete structures.

concrete China 2
GB50011 - seismic China 1
GB50017 - steel steel China 1
IBC

International Building Code

10
IBC 2006

International Building Code, 2006

2
IS 1893 - seismic India 1
IS 2502 - reinforcement bending

Code of practice for bending and fixing of bars for concrete reinforcement

concrete reinforcement India 1
IS 456 - concrete

Plain and reinforced Concrete Code of Practice

concrete India 7
IT 3274 Italy 1
multiple codes 10
NBR 6118 - concrete concrete Brazil 4
NBR 7188

Brazilian Association of Norms and Techniques

Brazil 0
NCSE-02 - seismic Spain 1
NCSE-94 - seismic Spain 1
NDS 2001

National Design Specifications for wood construction, 2001 edition.

timber USA 1
NDS 2005

National Design Specifications for wood construction.

timber USA 1
NZ 3101 New Zealand 2
OHBDC

Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code.

Replaced by CAN/CSA-S6-00 (R2005).

Canada 0
PCI

Prestressed/Precast Concrete Design Manuals.

concrete USA 0
PS 92 France 1
SIA

Design code by Association of Swiss Engineers and Architects.

Switzerland 2
SNIP

Russian standards.

Russia 1
UBC 1997 8