Except for visible concrete crushing in the corner of the corbels, no damage was observed in the other reinforced precast concrete members. The only source of nonlinear behavior was in the response of the joints due to a combination of slip and damage to their components. A delay in the load pickup was obtained because the end of the beam made contact with the side of the column, only after the beamcolumn gap was taken up. In some cases, the beams provided a response close to that of a double bending deformation, bearing on corbel and column. As a result, increased relative stiffness and additional demand at the level of the connection were determined. By contrast, in the majority of the cases, load pickup was ineffective and the effects of slip were pronounced throughout the loading histories. Therefore, a hysteretic behavior characterized by local ductility levels greater than 6, in the former case, contrasted with a response where the loops were too unstable to develop a well-established mechanism, in
the latter case. In both cases the rotational capacity was limited, and the simply supported configuration, commonly assumed at the design stage, did not represent the behavior observed.