Table of contents
1 SCOPE
- Aim of the Model Code
- Format
- Levels of approximation
- Structure of the Model Code2
2 TERMINOLOGY
- Definitions
- References
3 BASIC PRINCIPLES
- General
- Performance-based design and assessment
- Performance requirements for serviceability, structural safety, service life and reliability
- Performance requirements for sustainability
- Life Cycle Management
4 PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN
- Design situations
- Design strategies
- Design methods
- Probabilistic safety format
- Partial factor format
- Global resistance format
- Deemed-to-satisfy approach
- Design by avoidance
5 MATERIALS
- Concrete
- Reinforcing steel
- Prestressing steel
- Prestressing systems
- Non-metallic reinforcement
- Fibres/Fibre Reinforced Concrete
6 INTERFACE CHARACTERISTICS
- Bond of embedded steel reinforcement
- Bond of non-metallic reinforcement
- Concrete to concrete
- Concrete to steel
7 DESIGN
- Conceptual design
- Structural analysis and dimensioning
- Verification of structural safety (ULS) for predominantly static loading
- Verification of structural safety (ULS) for non-static loading
- Verification of structural safety (ULS) for extreme thermal conditions
- Verification of serviceability (SLS) of RC and PC structures
- Verification of safety and serviceability of FRC structures
- Verification of limit states associated with durability
- Verification of robustness
- Verification of sustainability
- Verifications assisted by numerical simulations
- Verification assisted by testing
- Detailing
- Verification of anchorages in concrete
8 CONSTRUCTION
- General
-Execution management
- Reinforcing steel works
- Prestressing works
- Falsework and formwork
- Concreting
9 CONSERVATION
- General
- Conservation strategies and tactics
- Conservation management
- Condition survey
- Condition assessment
- Condition evaluation and decision-making
- Interventions
- Recording
10 DISMANTLEMENT
- General
- Preparing dismantlement
- Safety and health provisions
