Evaluation of Shear Strength for Reinforced Concrete Beams With Bars Terminated in Tension Zones and Its Application to Design

The objectives of this study are to evaluate the shear forces at occurrence of diagonal crack and at shear failure based on experimental data on cut-off members and to examine the appropriateness of the method of calculating the load-displacement relationship by the cross-section division method for the bending moment considering moment-shift.The principal conclusions obtained are as listed below.(1) For evaluation of shear capacity, it will suffice to make corrections for shearspan ratio (a/d), tensile reinforcement ratio and cut-off location in design equation by CEB.(2) In computation of deflection, the calculated values would coincide with experimental values until yielding of member considerably.