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Specifies minimum requirements for the design of fastenings used to transmit loads to concrete for safety-critical applications.
Home Building Regulation 2014. (NSW legislation.)
The 2018 edition of AS 3600 is amended as follows; the amendments should be inserted in the appropriate places.
Sets out requirements for the classification of a site and the design and construction of a footing system for a single dwelling house, town house or the like which may be detached or separated by a party wall or common wall but not situated vertically above or below another dwelling.
Provides the procedure for structural design; includes design procedures, reference to design actions (other parts of the series), combinations of actions, detailing for robustness, methods of analysis and methods for confirmation of a limit states design; also covers the use of special studies and experimental testing and, for New Zealand, criteria for selection of annual probability of exceedance.
Specifies requirements for the design, fabrication, erection and stripping of formwork as well as the evaluation and repair of the formed concrete surface; colour evaluation charts are included in an Appendix.
This Standard specifies requirements for wall ties for use in tying together the leaves of cavity masonry walls, masonry veneer walls and loadbearing frames, and masonry veneer walls against a strong backing wall.
The 2018 edition of AS 3600 is amended as follows; the amendments should be inserted in the appropriate places.
This Standard specifies requirements for testing the durability performance of steel lintels and shelf angles to be built into masonry.
This Standard specifies requirements for connectors and accessories built into masonry.