Discussion: Shear strength of reinforced concrete dapped-end beams using mechanism analysis

This paper (Yang et al. (2011)) has made a significant contribution to the shear strength prediction of reinforced concrete dapped-end beams. The contributors read the paper with great interest. However, some ratios of measured and predicted shear strength in Table 1 and Figure 8 are incorrect. The mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation of the ratios of measured and predicted shear strength using strut-and-tie model based on ACI 318-05 (ACI, 2005) are corrected as 2·01, 1·45 and 0·72, respectively.

The authors would like to thank the contributors for their valuable comments. As pointed out by the contributors, there are errors in the ratios between test results and predictions using strut-and-tie model based on ACI 318-05 listed in Table 1 and Figure 8 of the original paper. Corrected values are presented here in Table 2 and Figure 12.