Damage Deformation of Flexure-Yielding Steel-Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams: Experimental and Numerical Investigation

Table 6

Comparison of chord rotations of specimens for different steel damage states.

Specimen number	Steel flange yielding			Steel web yielding
	Test	FEA	FEA/test	Test	FEA	FEA/test
Beam1	0.0033	0.0059	1.79	0.0140	0.0124	0.89
Beam2	0.0063	0.0053	0.84	0.0120	0.0116	0.97
Beam3	0.0044	0.0061	1.39	0.0095	0.0108	1.14
Beam4	0.0041	0.0051	1.24	0.0085	0.0105	1.24
Beam5	0.0053	0.0056	1.06	0.0078	0.0098	1.26
Beam6	0.0065	0.0057	0.88	0.0100	0.0115	1.15
Beam7	0.0039	0.0056	1.44	0.0131	0.0120	0.92