Assessment of one-way shear design of RC elements subjected to axial tension

The Shear failure of reinforced concrete is brittle with no warning. In addition, tensile forces could widen the concrete cracking and cause premature failure. Thus, worsen the situation, which could have disastrous consequences in many cases as shown in Fig. 1a. There is a lack of agreement between various design code provisions for the case of one-way shear combined tensile forces. A total of 897 concrete elements tested under one-way shear...