“…A database of previous tests was assembled from 23 studies that included 84 exterior and seven roof-level interior beam-column joints subjected to reversed cyclic loading by Bashandy, 8 Murakami et al, 9 Wallace et al, 10 Matsushima et al, 11 Nakazawa et al, 12 Tasai et al, 13 Yoshida et al, 14 Takeuchi et al, 15 Ishibashi et al, 16 Ishibashi and Inokuchi, 17 Kiyohara et al, 18,19 Kato, 20 Masuo et al, 21 Adachi and Masuo, 22 Chun et al, 23 Ishida et al, 24 Tazaki et al, 25 Lee and Yu, 26 Kang et al, 27,28 Chun and Shin, 29 and Dhake et al 30 In the exterior joint specimens, the beam reinforcement was anchored in the column using headed bars (Fig. 1(a)), and in the roof-level interior joint specimens, the column reinforcement was anchored in the beam using headed bars (Fig.…”