Path-following procedures are generally employed for describing unstable structural responses characterized by ``snap-backs'' and/or ``snap-troughs''. In these formulations, the evolution of the external actions (forces/displacements) is updated throughout the deformation process to fulfill a given criterion. Adapting the external loading during the calculation to control the evolution of the material non-linearities is helpful to obtain a solution and/or to reduce the number of iterations to convergence. This second aspect is of paramount importance, especially for large calculations (at the structural scale). Different path-following formulations were proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, an objective criterion for choosing one formulation over another for the simulation of reinforced concrete (RC) structures (in the presence of different and complex dissipation mechanisms) still needs to be made available. The proposed work will focus on the formulation of path-following algorithms adapted to simulate RC structures.