Country	Designation	Scope (our words)	Status
India	IS 13920	Ductile design and detailing of reinforced concrete structures for seismic forces.	current
India	IS 1786	High-strength deformed steel bars for concrete reinforcement.	current
India	IS 1893 (Part 1)	Criteria for earthquake-resistant design: seismic zones and how to work out earthquake forces.	current
India	IS 2502	Code of practice for bending and fixing of bars for concrete reinforcement.	current
India	IS 3370 (series)	Concrete structures for storage of liquids.	current
India	IS 456	Plain and reinforced concrete: general rules for materials, durability, design and construction.	current
India	IS 875 (Parts 1 to 5)	Design loads other than earthquake: dead, imposed, wind, snow and load combinations.	current
India	National Building Code of India 2016	Model code for buildings: planning, structural design, fire, construction practice and safety, building services.	current
USA	ACI 318	Building code requirements for structural concrete.	current
USA	ASCE/SEI 7	Minimum design loads (dead, live, wind, snow, seismic) for buildings and other structures.	current
USA	ASTM A615	Deformed and plain carbon-steel bars for concrete reinforcement.	current
UK	BS 4449	Steel for the reinforcement of concrete: weldable bar, coil and decoiled product.	current
UK	BS 8110	Structural use of concrete.	historical (withdrawn; replaced by Eurocode 2)
Europe	EN 10080	Steel for the reinforcement of concrete: weldable reinforcing steel, general.	current
Europe	EN 1990 (Eurocode 0)	Basis of structural design: limit states, combinations and reliability.	current
Europe	EN 1992 (Eurocode 2)	Design of concrete structures.	current
Germany	DIN 1045 (series)	Concrete, reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; now read with Eurocode 2 and its national annex.	current (parts revised)
Japan	AIJ Standard for Structural Calculation of Reinforced Concrete Structures	Architectural Institute of Japan design standard for RC buildings.	current
Japan	JIS G 3112	Steel bars for concrete reinforcement.	current
Japan	JSCE Standard Specifications for Concrete Structures	Japan Society of Civil Engineers specifications for design, construction and maintenance.	current
Australia	AS 3600	Concrete structures.	current
Australia	AS/NZS 1170 (series)	Structural design actions: loads and combinations.	current
Australia	AS/NZS 4671	Steel for the reinforcement of concrete.	current
Canada	CSA A23.3	Design of concrete structures.	current
Canada	CSA G30.18	Carbon steel bars for concrete reinforcement.	current
Canada	National Building Code of Canada	Model building code, including structural loads in Part 4.	current

Listed in a fixed country order; no standard is ranked above another. Scopes are our summaries. Buy the standards from the issuing body for exact text.

References and further reading

Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.

S. Unnikrishna Pillai, Devdas Menon, Reinforced Concrete Design, McGraw Hill Education (India), latest edition.
J. K. Wight, J. G. MacGregor, Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design, Pearson, latest edition.
A. H. Nilson, D. Darwin, C. W. Dolan, Design of Concrete Structures, McGraw Hill, latest edition.
R. Park, T. Paulay, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Wiley, 1975.

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