Bollettino n. 55

Model Code 2010

First complete draft

Volume 1

 

Contents

1. Scope

2. Terminology

3. Basic principles

General – Performance-based design and assessment – Performance requirements for serviceability and structural safety – Performance requirements for sustainability – Life Cycle

4. Principles of structural design

Design situations – Design strategies – Design methods – Probabilistic safety format – Partial factor format – Global resistance format – Deemed-to-safety approach – Design by avoidance

5. Materials

Concrete – Reinforcing steel – Prestressing steel – Prestressing systems – Non-metallic reinforcement – Fibres and fibre-reinforced concrete

6. Interface characteristics

Bond of embedded steel reinforcement – Bond of non-metallic reinforcement – Concrete to concrete – Concrete to steel