Outline of AIJ Recommendations for Durability Design and Construction
Practice of Reinforced Concrete (Draft)
By Y. Masuda, T. Noguchi and M. Kanematsu
Concrete Jornal, Vol.43, No.2, Feb. 2005
- Synopsis
- The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) published Recommendations for Durability Design and Construction Practice of Reinforced Concrete (draft) in March 2004. These recommendations were proposed as model guidelines for performance-oriented design in the materials/construction field, for the first time specifically dealing with performance design in the materials/construction segment of AIJ. In perticular, a theoretical system was formulated by analyzing and organizing the durability performance of reinforced concrete buildings, based on which a framework of durability design was proposed. This framework consists of three routes : "performance-based design : general approach," "standard-specification-based design," and "performance-based design : special approach." These recommendations are also significant in that they unified the methods of determining the limit state of structures and members in terms of performance and defined them in relation to the limit state of materials, such as reinforcement, concrete, and finishing materials.
- Keywords:
- durability design, performance-based design : general approach, performance-based design : special approach, standard-specification-based design
