Research Article

Experimental Study on Strain Penetration Effects in Fixed-End Rotation of RC Beam-Column Connections with High-Strength Reinforcement

Table 9

Empirical expressions of strain penetration length Lsp.

ReferenceStrain penetration length, Lsp

Paulay and Priestley [19]Lsp = 0.022fydb
Priestley and Park [24]Lsp = 6db
Panagiotakos and Fardis [25]Lsp = 0.021fydb
Eurocode 8-part 3 [26]