Testing of 17 Identical Ductile Reinforced Concrete Beams with Various Loading Protocols and Boundary Conditions

A set of tests on 17 large-scale, nominally identical, beam specimens with variations in loading protocol, loading rate, and restraint to axial elongation are described. Three specimens were also repaired by epoxy injection following an initial damaging earthquake loading. This paper provides a detailed description of the test program, and the corresponding data are made available at Design-Safe (DOI: 10.17603/DS2SQ2K). While the primary goal of the test program was to improve the state of knowledge regarding the post-earthquake residual capacity of reinforced concrete plastic hinges in beams, the data are useful for modeling approaches that consider loading rate, plastic hinge elongation, cyclic degradation, and flexure–shear–axial interaction, in addition to investigating the effectiveness of post-earthquake repair techniques by epoxy injection of cracks.