[CEN 1992-1-1 (CEN 2005)], the proposed Eq. (14) is shown not only to be simpler, but also to provide improved prediction as illustrated in Table 1 and Fig. 4. The ACI method is the most conservative among these three methods, and this might partly be because of the unnecessarily conservative limit on the maximum shear strength. The Eurocode method is quite good for beams with ω > 0.05, while providing a great scatter of results for beams with low degree of shear reinforcement. The Eurocode prediction point for the test specimen with ω ¼ 0.7 is not available in Fig. 4(b). This is because that the index ψ (Table 1) is greater than unity, and the expression pψffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi=ð1 − ψÞ is not meaningful for this test specimen.