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On minimum shear reinforcement amounts for reinforced concrete beams

A ductile shear bearing behaviour of reinforced concrete beams is recently ensured by providing standardized amounts of minimum shear reinforcement in compliance with established detailing provisions. However, lower than minimum shear reinforcement amounts do not necessarily go along with a brittle mode of failure in all cases. Dependent on the individual layout and amount of stirrups, the contributions of other bearing capacities and the crack formation itself, the initial cracking force might be overtaken even along with further load gains and reasonable limited shear crack widths. Especially the latter one holds potential to rate the failure mode - brittle or ductile - on site. Experiments on lightly shear reinforced single span concrete beams are evaluated and rated with respect to minimum shear reinforcement amounts required. Thereby, special interest is set on the load-deformation response obeying the critical shear crack and the structural design. Finally, the overall shear resistance as well as the stirrups' efficiency in the effective shear domain are analysed to derive suggestions for future practical application on-site.