BS 5400-4:1990

Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
1. Scope
2. Definitions and symbols
3. Limit state philosophy
4. Design: general
4.1 Limit state requirements
4.2 Loads, load combinations and partial factors
4.3 Properties of materials
4.4 Analysis of structure
4.5 Analysis of section
4.6 Deflection
4.7 Fatigue
4.8 Combined global and local effects
5. Design and detailing: reinforced concrete
5.1 General
5.2 Structures and structural frames
5.3 Beams
5.4 Slabs
5.5 Columns
5.6 Reinforced concrete walls
5.7 Bases
5.8 Considerations affecting design details
5.9 Additional considerations in the use of
      lightweight aggregate concrete
6. Design and detailing: prestressed concrete
6.1 General
6.2 Structures and structural frames
6.3 Beams
6.4 Slabs
6.5 Columns
6.6 Tension members
6.7 Prestressing requirements
6.8 Considerations affecting design details
7. Design and detailing: precast, composite and plain
    concrete construction
7.1 General
7.2 Precast concrete construction
7.3 Structural connections between units
7.4 Composite concrete construction
7.5 Plain concrete walls and abutments
Appendices
A. Method
B. Elastic deformation of concrete
C. Shrinkage and creep
D. Cover and spacing of curved tendons in ducts for
    prestressed concrete
Tables
1. Design crack widths
2. Stress limitations for the serviceability limit size
3. Modulus of elasticity of concrete under short term
    loading
4. Values of gamma m for the serviceability stress
    limitations
5. Strength of concrete
6. Strength of reinforcement
7. Form and area of shear reinforcement in beams
8. Ultimate shear stress in concrete, vc
9. Values of xi s
10. Ultimate torsion shear stress
11. Effective height, ie, for columns
12. Relationship of N/Nuz to alpha n
13. Nominal cover to reinforcement under particular
    conditions of exposure
14. Ultimate local bond stresses
15. Ultimate anchorage bond stresses
16. Reduction factor for effective perimeter of a group
    of bars
17. Ultimate shear stress, vc, in lightweight aggregate
    concrete beams without shear reinforcement
18. Maximum value of shear stress in lightweight
    aggregate concrete beams
19. Ultimate torsion shear stress in lightweight
    aggregate concrete beams
20. Strength of concrete
21. Table deleted
22. Compressive stresses in concrete for serviceability
    limit states
23. Allowable compressive stresses at transfer
24. Flexural tensile stresses for class 2 members:
    serviceability limit state: cracking
25. Hypothetical flexural tensile stresses for class 3
    members
26. Depth factor for tensile stresses for class 3
    members
27. Conditions at the ultimate limit state for
    rectangular beams with pre-tensioned tendons, or
    with post-tensioned tendons having effective bond
28. Maximum shear stress
29. Shrinkage of concrete
30. Design bursting tensile forces in end blocks
31. Ultimate longitudinal shear stress, v1, and values
    of k1 for composite members
32. Flexural tensile stresses in in- situ concrete
33. Values of po for calculation of shrinkage curvatures
34. Values of K1 for various bending moment diagrams
35. Modulus of elasticity
36. Minimum cover to ducts perpendicular to plane of
    curvature
37. Minimum distance between centre lines of ducts in
    plane of curvature
Figures
1. Short term design stress-strain curve for normal
    weight concrete
2. Short term design stress-strain curve for
    reinforcement
3. Short term design stress-strain curve for normal
    and for low relaxation products
4. Figure deleted
5. Parameters for shear stress in solid slabs under
    concentrated load
6. Openings in slabs
6a. Bearing stress
7. Having joint (diagrammatic only)
8. Potential shear planes
9. Coefficient kL (environmental conditions)
10. Coefficient kM (hardening (maturity) at the age of
    loading)
11. Coefficient kc (composition of the concrete)
12. Coefficient ke (effective thickness)
13. Coefficient kj (environment)
15. Coefficient ke (effective thickness)
16. Relaxation coefficient
17. Coefficient phi 2
18. Coefficient phi 3
19. Coefficient phi 4

Objectives and requirements of design, and particular recommendations for reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete and composite concrete construction.