Yielding and Ultimate Deformations of Wide and Deep Reinforced Concrete Beams Gómez Martínez, Fernando Wide beams Deep beams Chord rotation Ductility Plastic hinge length Eurocode 8 Current formulations proposed by Eurocode 8 part 3 for the inelastic deformations of existing reinforced concrete members are assessed separately for wide beams (WB) and conventional deep beams (DB). The current approach, based on a large experimental database of members, predicts larger ultimate chord rotation but lower chord rotation ductility for WB rather than for DB despite the similar curvature ductility, due to lower plastic hinge lengths in WB. However, if the data are disaggregated into DB and WB, predicted chord rotations are consistently conservative for DB and not conservative for WB if compared with experimental values, especially at ultimate deformation. Thus, plastic hinge length may be even greater for DB in comparison to WB. Therefore, some feasible corrections of the formulations for chord rotations are proposed, in order to reduce the bias and thus increase the robustness of the model for cross-section shape variability. 2023-01-16T07:57:16Z 2023-01-16T07:57:16Z 2022-11-18 journal article Gómez-Martínez, F.; Pérez-García, A. Yielding and Ultimate Deformations of Wide and Deep Reinforced Concrete Beams. Buildings 2022, 12, 2015. [https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12112015] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/79004 10.3390/buildings12112015 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI