Abstract:
Reinforced concrete design is considered as a vitally important disciplinary in the
field of civil engineering. The design of reinforced concrete is done to various
standards and well establishes practices. The British standards have been used in Sri
Lanka. Since United Kingdom has withdrawn BS8110, paving the way for Euro
standards, Sri Lanka has been compelled to use Euro standards or adopt other
international standard for the design of reinforced concrete. American Concrete
Institute ACI 318(2008), EC2 (BS EN 1992-1-2), JCI standards, CEB FIP are the
commonly used international standards for reinforced concrete design. It is known
that design approach in various codes of practices differ from each other.
Results of various design approaches and their structural implications are
continuously debated in various forums. Knowledge of different design approaches
are considered vitally to understand the design philosophies of reinforced concrete
design. In addition, there is a requirement to train structural engineers to adopt Euro
standards as Sri Lanka is gearing to recognize Euro as our next standard for
reinforced concrete design. Both of the above objectives can be achieved well by a
design learning tool. Leaning tool allows the users to learn on their own phase. It is
in this back ground that interactive learning tool “Recode” is formulated.
