Minimum Web Reinforcement in Deep Beams/AUTHORS' CLOSURE

The tests were controlled by load increment but only the diagonal crack width was measured for each stage of loading. [...]it is impossible to study the concrete strut shown in Fig. 1. The authors greatly appreciate the supplemental infor- mation related to the fib provisions. Because the web reinforcement attributed to the fib provisions in the paper is for both faces (0.2% in each orthogonal direction), the authors confirm that the discussers' findings are consistent with the paper. 2.