Country	Designation	Scope (our words)	Status
India	IS 10262	Guidelines for proportioning concrete mixes.	current
India	IS 1199	Methods of sampling and analysis of fresh concrete, including slump.	current
India	IS 1489 (Parts 1 and 2)	Portland pozzolana cement (fly ash and calcined clay based).	current
India	IS 2386 (Parts 1 to 8)	Methods of test for aggregates for concrete: shape, strength, soundness and more.	current
India	IS 269	Ordinary Portland cement: requirements.	current
India	IS 383	Coarse and fine aggregate for concrete: requirements.	current
India	IS 455	Portland slag cement.	current
India	IS 456	Plain and reinforced concrete: general rules for materials, durability, design and construction.	current
India	IS 516	Methods of testing concrete for strength (cubes and related tests).	current
India	IS 9103	Concrete admixtures: specification.	current
USA	ACI 211.1	Standard practice for selecting proportions for normal, heavyweight and mass concrete.	current
USA	ACI 318	Building code requirements for structural concrete.	current
USA	ASTM C143	Slump of hydraulic-cement concrete.	current
USA	ASTM C150	Portland cement specification.	current
USA	ASTM C39	Compressive strength of cylindrical concrete specimens.	current
USA	ASTM C494	Chemical admixtures for concrete.	current
UK	BS 8500	UK complementary standard to BS EN 206 for specifying concrete.	current
Europe	EN 12350 (series)	Testing fresh concrete, including slump.	current
Europe	EN 12390 (series)	Testing hardened concrete, including compressive strength.	current
Europe	EN 197-1	Cement: composition and conformity of common cements.	current
Europe	EN 206	Concrete: specification, performance, production and conformity.	current
Europe	EN 934-2	Admixtures for concrete: definitions and requirements.	current
Japan	JIS A 1101	Method of test for slump of concrete.	current
Japan	JIS A 1108	Method of test for compressive strength of concrete.	current
Japan	JIS R 5210	Portland cement.	current
Japan	JIS R 5211	Portland blast-furnace slag cement.	current
Japan	JSCE Standard Specifications for Concrete Structures	Japan Society of Civil Engineers specifications for design, construction and maintenance.	current
Australia	AS 1012 (series)	Methods of testing concrete.	current
Australia	AS 3972	General purpose and blended cements.	current
Canada	CSA A23.1/A23.2	Concrete materials and methods of construction; test methods.	current
Canada	CSA A3000	Cementitious materials compendium.	current

Listed in a fixed country order; no standard is ranked above another. Scopes are our summaries. Buy the standards from the issuing body for exact text.

References and further reading

Standard texts, listed in no order of merit. We do not copy text, figures, tables or solved problems from any book; our explanations and examples are original.

M. S. Shetty, Concrete Technology: Theory and Practice, S. Chand, latest edition.
A. M. Neville, Properties of Concrete, Pearson, 5th edition.
P. K. Mehta, P. J. M. Monteiro, Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials, McGraw Hill, latest edition.

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