Heirarchy of ASCE standards?

[HamishMcTavish]

Hello all,

I've been trying to find out how various ASCE standards relate to one another but without any success. They are:

ASCE/SEI 41-06 Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

ASCE 4-98 Seismic Analysis of Safety Related Nuclear Structures

ASCE/SEI 31-03 Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings

Ok 31-03 and 41-06 are complimentary but how does 4-98 figure into the equation? Is it an entirely seperate standard or is it superseded by the more modern ones? Do the more modern standards refer out to 4-98? Without buying the standards there doesn't seem to be any way to check!

Many thanks in advance, HM

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary - William of Occam

 

[Bagman2524]

Nuclear Structures are treated differently from other industrial and commercial structures. For a nuclear structure 4-98 would govern over the other 2 specs.

 

[HamishMcTavish]

Thanks Bagman, could you tell me if the newer standards cross reference each other or is the use of a particular standard up to the individual carrying out the analysis?

kind regards, HM

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary - William of Occam

 

[UcfSE]

ASCE provides standards referenced by other codes. I would expect there to be some governing building code for nuclear safety-related structures that tells you what standards are to be used. Try checking out that avenue.

 

[HamishMcTavish]

Thanks UcfSE, will do.

Am based in the UK so maybe the Eurocodes are the best way to go. Several designers in the office have referenced the ASCE standards which was why i asked the original question. The way british standards are set up is that they (mostly) have a preamble where they state what a particular standard relies upon - what they call normative references.

Without buying the ASCE standards it appears from information on their website that the various standards are standalone.

Regards, HM

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary - William of Occam