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Table 9 Summary of a typical predictions of shear strength.

From: Shear Capacity Contribution of Steel Fiber Reinforced High-Strength Concrete Compared with and without Stirrup

Investigator/design guidelines

Shear strength model, kN

Sharma (1986)

Vfib, SAK = kft(d/a)0.25

Al-Ta’an and Al-Feel (1990)

Vfib, AT = \(\frac{8.5}{9}\)kf(Vf\(\frac{{L_{f} }}{{d_{f} }}\))bwd

Swamy et al. (1993)

Vfib, SRN = 0.37τ(Vf\(\frac{{L_{f} }}{{d_{f} }}\))bwd

Khuntia et al. (1999)

Vfib,KM= 0.25β(Vf\(\frac{{L_{f} }}{{d_{f} }}\))\(\sqrt {f_{c} }\)bwd

Foster (2010)

Vfib, FSJ = 0.9kfdfwbwdcotθ

Aoude et al. (2012)

Vfib, HA = 0.83FpNfibbwdvcotθ

Yakoub (2011)

Vfib,YHE=2.5β\(\sqrt {f_{c} }\)(1 + 0.70Vf\(\frac{{L_{f} }}{{d_{f} }}R_{g}\))\(\frac{d}{a}\) for \(\frac{a}{d}\)≤2.5

Vfib,YHE= β\(\sqrt {f_{c} }\)(1 + 0.70Vf\(\frac{{L_{f} }}{{d_{f} }}R_{g}\)) for \(\frac{a}{d}\)>2.5

RILEM TC 162-TDF (2000)

Vfib,RIL= kfklτfibbwd

AFGC 2013 (2013)

Vfib,AC=(0.9bwRd,f)tanθ

Spinella (2013)

Vfib,SN= 0.22voffcfh/[(a-x0)bwdw]