Bindhu and Jaya (2008) deal with the non-conventional
reinforcement detailing in the beam-column joint by providing
inclined bars on the two faces of the joint core,
which leads to reduction in compaction and construction
difficulties due to congestion of reinforcement in the joint
region. Bindhu and Jaya (2010) reported that confinement
of core concrete without congestion of reinforcement in
joints by providing additional cross bracing bars provided
on two faces of joint as confining reinforcements. Perumal
and Thanukumari (2010) reported that conventional concrete
loses its tensile resistance after formation of cracks;
fibre concrete can sustain a portion of its resistance following
cracking to resist more cycles of loading. Malathy
et al. (2007) investigated the effect of glass fibre on
restrained shrinkage cracking in concrete, especially highperformance
concrete (HPC) because plastic shrinkage and
drying shrinkage were the shortcomings of HPC with those
additives like silica fume, metakoaline, fly ash and superplasticizer.
The objective of this paper is to study the
behaviour of exterior beam-column joint with and without
fibre-reinforced HPC and the reinforcement designed as per
both IS 456-(2000) and IS 13920-(1993) with cross-diagonal
bars at the joint were tested under monotonic loading