The Code provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and detailing of structural concrete buildings and, where applicable, nonbuilding structures. This Code was developed by an ANSI-approved consensus process and addresses structural systems, members, and connections, including cast-in-place, precast, shotcrete, plain, nonprestressed, prestressed, and composite construction.
Among the subjects covered are:
- Design and construction for strength, serviceability, and durability;
- Load combinations, load factors, and strength reduction factors;
- Structural analysis methods;
- Deflection limits;
- Mechanical and adhesive anchoring to concrete;
- Development and splicing of reinforcement;
- Cconstruction document information;
- Field inspection and testing;
- and methods to evaluate the strength of existing structures.
The Code was substantially reorganized and reformatted in 2014, and this Code continues and expands that same organizational philosophy. The principal objectives of the reorganization were to present all design and detailing requirements for structural systems or for individual members in chapters devoted to those individual subjects, and to arrange the chapters in a manner that generally follows the process and chronology of design and construction.
ACI 318M