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Abstract Many researches were carried out to investigate the properties and structural performance of high strength concrete beams for many decades. While these researches have produced relevant and useful results, there are several properties of high strength concrete like compressive and tensile strengths, stiffness, durability, modulus of rupture, cracking shear load and ultimate load that need to investigate to determine an accurate evaluate of beams made of high strength concrete. This study investigates the effect of shear span-depth ratio (a/d) on the statical behavior of HSCB subjected to transverse loading. The effect of shear span to depth ratio includes some main mutual factors such as grade of concrete and stirrups spacing. The studied statical behavior includes: evaluation of pattern of cracks, modes of failure, concrete and steel strains, maximum deflection, flexural cracking load (Pcr), modulus of rupture, cracking shear load (Vcr) and finally ultimate load (Pu). |