Comparative Study of a Reinforced Concrete Frame Design Based on American Concrete Institute (ACI-318) and British Standards (EN 1992)

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The availability of decent infrastructure such as houses, roads, airports, dams, etc. not only increases the national revenues but also brings good humor to the population. In most developing countries, civil engineers, architects, and building constructors have to refer to the standards already created from the developed countries, like the United States of America (USA) and Canada with their American Concrete Institute (ACI-318) standard, and the United Kingdom (UK) with its British Standards (EN 1992). The construction of stable and safe infrastructures is based on design before, to check their workability during the exploitation and serviceability. During the design of any structure, standard codes of practice are directly involved because they give an extent to which the design engineer must refer, thus speeding up the task. In this research, EN 1992 and ACI-318 codes were used to compare the results from the design of a reinforced concrete (RC) frame of a commercial building according to the recommendations from both standards. This paper mainly consists of a double note of calculus done on every structural member, such as a panel slab, a continuous beam, a column, and a pad footing. The design was done at Ultimate Limit States (ULS) and Serviceability Limit States (SLS) in both cases. ArchiCAD and LINPRO softwares have been used, respectively, to produce the figures and calculate the shears and moments in structural members. The results showed that the use of BS code needs more time to reach the same final answer as that of ACI, but it provides fewer sectional areas of the main steel reinforcements. Concerning the structural safety and serviceability of the element to be designed, the calculations done on BS code gave much bending moments and axial internal loads in all performed cases. In this study, other researchers and design engineers are invited to conduct similar work by comparing other codes of practice so that developing countries have their own codes of practice. Reinforced concrete British standards American Concrete Institute Design Limit states Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 10 Mar, 2025 Read the published version in Discover Civil Engineering → Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Revision requested 04 Dec, 2024 Reviews received at journal 02 Dec, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 22 Nov, 2024 Reviews received at journal 26 Oct, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 26 Oct, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 24 Oct, 2024 Reviewers invited by journal 18 Oct, 2024 Editor assigned by journal 09 Oct, 2024 Submission checks completed at journal 09 Oct, 2024 First submitted to journal 30 Sep, 2024 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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