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Abstract

In construction of modern buildings it requires many pipes and ducts in order to accommodate essential services such as air conditioning, electricity, telephone and computer network such that openings in concrete beams enable the installation of these services. It also provides substantial economic savings in the construction of a multi-storey building. Various studies have been conducted with regards to reinforced concrete beams which contain web openings. This paper shows the work on the behaviour, analysis and design of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams with web openings. A various aspects have been discussed including the classification of openings, guidelines for opening location in the beam, and the structural behaviour of RC beams with web openings. In various design approaches will also be detailed, for example the American Concrete Institute (ACI) approach, and in the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) approach method. Finally directions for the future research based on the gaps which exist in the present work are presented.