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To avoid excessive slip of beam longitudinal bars at the joints of an earthquake-resisting moment frame, ACI 318 Building Code set a minimum joint depth of 20 times the diameter of the largest longitudinal beam bars passing through the joint, which is based on prior experimental verification of beam-column joints with Grade 420 MPa reinforcement. In view of that the 20-bar-diameter criterion cannot...