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Abstract In recent years. Building Codes of many centries have restricted the amount of tension steel to be used. In doing so. the Codes recognize that sufficient ductility is acheived by making the tension steel yield. But. it may be economical to use more steel than that allowed by the Codes. this may be feasible if the ductility of concrete itself improved. The advantages of using greatar quantities and strengths of steel are becoming more and more evident. because reinforced and prestressed concrete members are becoming more and more slender in high-rise building and bridges. In addition to this in construction. today. there is a growing trend toward using precast concrete elements. provided with high steal ratio. knowldge of the behaviour of reinforced concrete T-beams. subjectad to high shearing force is essential to better understanding of shear strength and modes of failure of such beams. Although considerable theoretical and experimental data (2). (11).(31),(41) and (51) are available regarding the shear strength of under-reinforced concrete t-beams. relatively few studies have been confronted with consideration o£ static and repeated loads on over-reinforced ones. |