Specimen | Experiment | Eurocode 2 (European Committee for Standardization 2004, Bureau for Standardisation NBN 2010) | ||||
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\(V_{u,exp}\) (kN) | Failure mode | \(V_{u,pred}\) (kN) | \(V_{u,bend}\) (kN) | Failure mode | \( \frac{{V_{{u,exp}} }}{{V_{{u,pred}} }} \) (−) | |
B101 | 377.7 | S-DT†| 158.1 | 412.2 | S | 2.39 |
B102 | 321.6 | S-DT | 158.1 | 329.6 | S | 2.03 |
B103 | 262.8 | S-DT | 243.3 ‡ | 329.6 | S | 1.08 |
B104 | 281.8 | S-DT | 135.2 | 406.6 | S | 2.08 |
B105 | 251.2 | S-DT | 135.2 | 325.3 | S | 1.86 |
B106 | 179.7 | S-DT | 206.9 ‡ | 325.3 | S | 0.87 |
B107 | 271.3 | B | 147.9 | 236.5 | S | 1.83 |
B108 | 213.8 | B | 147.9 | 189.2 | S | 1.45 |
B109 | 181.0 | S-DT | 197.0* | 189.2 | B | 0.92 |
 |  |  |  |  | \(\overline{\frac{V_{u,exp}}{V_{u,pred}}}\) | 1.61 |
 |  |  |  |  | COVa | 55.4 \(\%\) |