Experimental Evaluation of Strut-and-Tie Model of Indeterminate Deep Beam

The authors have presented the experimental results of statically indeterminate deep beams using the strut-and-tie modeling (STM) procedures available in ACI 318-08. Despite the important effort providing new experimental results, some additional issues should be discussed to fully understand and complement the procedures used in this very interesting paper. The authors are to be complimented by their effort producing experimental results for statically indeterminate structures designed using strut-and-tie models.