Analysis of the Regulatory Base for Designing Reinforced Concrete Structures

The emergence of new building materials, technologies, and design methods leads to the necessity of permanent renovation of the construction regulatory base, and the expansion and deepening of cooperation between the states entails the necessity to harmonize Russian regulatory-technical documentation with international documents. Technical regulation in the field of design and construction with the use of reinforced concrete is of particular importance due to the leading positions of reinforced concrete in the overall structure of the world manufacture of building products. The analysis of domestic regulatory documents on the design of reinforced concrete structures has been made. The systematization of legal, technical and methodical documents, codes of rules, standards related to the design of reinforced concrete structures has been executed. Have been analyzed the most widespread foreign and international systems of regulatory documents in the field of reinforced concrete structures design, their requirements have been compared with requirements of domestic norms. The issues which were partially covered in the existing regulatory-technical documents have been revealed. Documents required to be developed, redeveloped or canceled have been determined. On the basis of results obtained, the hierarchical structure of the complex of regulatory documents in the field of the design of reinforced concrete structures including the basic and three consistently subordinated levels of regulatory documents has been formed. Proposals on correction and addition of the domestic system of regulatory documents, making changes in the existing documents and development of new ones have been developed. Among the most important areas of work on the development of the regulatory base it is necessary to identify the regulation in the field of operation of reinforced concrete structures and buildings, regulation in the field of scientific-technical support of design and construction, regulation in the field of providing the fire resistance and fire durability of reinforced concrete structures.

B.S. SOKOLOV, Candidate of Science (Engineering),
S.A. ZENIN, Candidate of Science (Engineering)

Research, Design and Technological Institute For Concrete and Reinforced Concrete named after A.A. Gvozdev, “Research and Development Center “Stroitel’stvo” AO (6, 2nd Institutskaya Street, Moscow, 109428, Russian Federation)

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